You Probably Don't Need Blockchain

Here's a great article detailing some popular blockchain use cases and how they can be subverted:

https://blog.smartdec.net/you-do-not-need-blockchain-eight-popular-use-cases-and-why-they-do-not-work-f2ecc6cc2129

While reading it, note that there are often other (simpler, cheaper, more mature, more widely known) technologies out there that can solve the problems you're trying to solve.

One big example is the combination of digital signatures with an immutable data store . This captures the identities of the participants, the information provided by the participants and the timestamps of all entries.

Blockchain does have some valid use cases (e.g. cryptocurrency management), but it certainly shouldn't be seen as the best way to solve existing problems.

A collection of scripts for automating IBM APM SaaS

This is a collection of scripts from Richard Xiao for getting data out of APM Cloud:

https://github.com/xiaojias/ipm-auto/tree/master/scripts

A great video on deploying and operating Kubernetes at scale

Here's a video from Chick-Fil-A's IT team describing exactly how they use Kubernetes clusters at the edge (in each restaurant). The problems and their solutions are really intriguing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8edDcy3oeUo