Hacker News with Generative AI: Operations

The Ancients Had Ops (reedmeyerson.com)
While the “Dev” and “ML” parts of DevOps and MLOps are new1, the “Ops” part is ancient, and the properties of good Ops have remained constant from antiquity to present.

DevOps, History, Operations, Software Engineering

3 points by reedmeyerson 3 days ago | 0 comments

Migrating billions of records: moving Cloudflare DNS database while it's in use (cloudflare.com)
According to a survey done by W3Techs, as of October 2024, Cloudflare is used as an authoritative DNS provider by 14.5% of all websites.

Cloud Computing, DNS, Database Management, Operations, Technology

5 points by programd 7 days ago | 0 comments

How to delegate effectively as your responsibility grows (hitsubscribe.com)
I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our operations group so they can SOP those services at scale. And because I’m doing that, this seemed like a good moment to draw on my experience, both in leadership roles and as a management consultant, and lay out a blueprint for internal delegation.

Management, Leadership, Delegation, Operations

187 points by galfarragem 14 days ago | 52 comments

Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017) (sre.google)

Software Engineering, Google, Operations, Reliability, Documentation

188 points by nateb2022 179 days ago | 115 comments