stripe link graphic Increment Issue 17 May 2021 Containers How can engineering teams leverage the portability, consistency, and velocity benefits of containers to do their best work? How do organizations approach container testing, deployment, and monitoring at scale? Do containers have a role to play in reducing a company's carbon footprint? This issue of Increment examines how developers can harness containers to build more flexible, resilient, and scalable systems. We share functional approaches to container compliance, observability, and migration, and explorations of the panoramic possibilities of the container ecosystem. link Read the issue In this issue link A primer on containers Nočnica Fee explores core technologies, the engineering needs they’re best suited to serve, and possibilities for the containerized future. link Containers in the keep Liz Rice explains how the multilayered practice of defense in depth can help protect containers not unlike the fortifications of a medieval castle. link Leadership as migration strategy Tramale Turner offers people centered considerations for teams discussing a container migration, and the leaders supporting them. link How to cloud native Michael Hausenblas discusses the upsides and challenges of leveraging open source and open specifications in your cloud migration strategy. link Interview: Joe Beda Glenn Fleishman speaks with the Kubernetes co creator about the project’s origins and evolution and the role community plays in pushing it forward. link graphic Follow us on Instagram Increment is on Instagram Our new Instagram account will share stories at the intersection of design and technical storytelling, spotlighting the artists who complement Increment’s articles with singular, surprising, and delightful illustrations. The inaugural post delves into the cover design for the Containers issue. link Follow us This newsletter was produced by the Increment team, with support from Andres Jimenez and illustrations by link Cornelia Li dot This email was sent to hello at Smiles Davis dot yeah. If you’d rather not receive this kind of email, you can link unsubscribe or manage your email preferences. link Stripe, 510 Townsend Street, San Francisco CA 94103