A list of the top nine SRE skills, from incident management, to cloud computing, to networking and beyond.

Our Rails/Rack customers may notice that we now install Node.js v16 when creating new servers. We typically keep this version as stable as possible to avoid breaking older applications. However, if you need a newer or older version to be installed, you can always specify the node.js version in your manifest!

You started the year with one Kubernetes cluster and now you have 100. How do you deal with that? This is a reality for many SREs, and as organizations scale their monitoring to address the growing complexity of their IT environments, SREs will inevitably encounter challenges. The key is to know what challenges to expect, so you can be prepared rather than surprised.

As a product designer at VMware Tanzu Labs, I’m often having conversations on the value of design in product development. I was discussing design with a client stakeholder one day and made the comment that “Nobody can tell who the designer is on my team.” At first, they were a bit confused by this statement. “Aren’t the designers the ones who create the designs of the product?” they said.