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Using DevOps Automation to Combat DevOps Workforce Shortages
A focus on automation can help to combat the current staffing struggles many organizations have with DevOps roles. Effective automation can reduce the toil experienced by developers. Automation efforts should focus on security operations, deployments, continuous delivery, QA testing, and continuous integration.
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How Development Teams Can Orchestrate Their Workflow with Pipelines as Code
Infrastructure as Code was just the beginning. Configuration as Code followed shortly after – again becoming extremely commonplace and enabling organisations to scale their engineering capacity by a number of times. And in order to continuously increase the value development teams generate, Pipelines as Code is the natural consequence.
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API Friction Complicates Hunting for Cloud Vulnerabilities. SQL Makes it Simple
APIs can tell you everything about your cloud infrastructure, but they're hard to use and work in different ways. What if you could write simple SQL queries that call APIs for you and put results into a database? Steampipe, an open-source project that maps APIs to Postgres foreign tables, makes that dream come true. It's hard enough to reason over data. Acquiring it should be easy, and now it is.
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The Compounding (Business) Value of Composable Ecosystems
Being “free” and open source doesn’t hinder the value of these projects to businesses and end users; rather it unlocks it. The composability of open source ecosystems allows the innovation and value of the whole ecosystem to compound on itself.
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Analyzing Incident Data across Organizations: Courtney Nash on the VOID
The Verica Open Incident Database (VOID) is assembling publically available software-related incident reports. InfoQ talks with Courtney Nash on their recent findings including how MTT* metrics may not be beneficial, the average time to incident resolution, and the importance of studying near-miss reports.
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Embracing Cloud-Native for Apache DolphinScheduler with Kubernetes: a Case Study
This article shares how Apache DolphinScheduler was updated to use a more modern, cloud-native architecture. This includes moving to Kubernetes and integrating with Argo CD and Prometheus. This improves substantially the user experience of deploying, operating, and monitoring DolphinScheduler.
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Diving into Zero Trust Security
The Zero Trust approach involves a combination of more-secure authentication approaches, such as MFA with profiling and posturing of the client device, along with some stronger encryption checks. This article shares some insights on Zero Trust Security for your organization and your customers, and how you can get started with it.
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Developing a Cloud-Native Application on Microsoft Azure Using Open Source Technologies
Cloud native is a development approach that improves building, maintainability, scalability, and deployment of applications. My intention with this article is to explain, in a pragmatic way, how to build, deploy, run, and monitor a simple cloud-native application on Microsoft Azure using open-source technologies.
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DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – June 2022
This article summarizes how we see the "cloud computing and DevOps" space in 2022, which focuses on fundamental infrastructure and operational patterns, the realization of patterns in technology frameworks, and the design processes and skills that a software architect or engineer must cultivate.
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Reproducible Development with Devcontainers
Devcontainers provide a reproducable, reusable, simplified developer experience. Get a tour of a devcontainer including how they work, how to use them most efficiently, and how they differ to deployment containers.
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Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions with Serverless and Kubernetes Native Java
Moving application workloads to multi- and hybrid cloud platforms causes more carbon dioxide emissions, although better scalability and performance. Serverless and Kubernetes Native Java enable developers to solve the global climate changes by reducing carbon dioxide emissions by natively native features with milliseconds first boot time, tiny resident set size memory and scalability.
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Building Effective Developer Tools to Enable an Entire Organization to Move Faster
Building effective tooling can help bring down the time to delivery and increase the number of changes delivered safely. This article demonstrates the tools that Monzo has built to enable developers, and how these tools are being used within the engineering function to deploy hundreds of times per day and beyond the engineering function to run a bank at scale.