These are example Netflix TCP kernel parameters.

In this post I will detail the investigation process I followed while responding to a request backlog alert.

Canonical uses the WordPress blogging system for all our company blogs. Earlier this year I was tasked with updating our WordPress charm from a Services Framework Juju Charm on OpenStack to a Kubernetes based Operator Framework Charm.

Managing a service with deployments in multi-cloud environments can be a challenge in terms of troubleshooting and scalability due to the complexity of dealing with different public cloud providers. An effective way to manage services deployed cross-cloud is to use tools that allow you to define your service once and deploy anywhere: in the cloud, on bare metal, or locally inside containers. In this blog post I am going to describe how the Canonical SRE team has achieved this, the tools that we use and the way we apply them to manage the Ubuntu Archive Mirror service.