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Can MTTR Be an Effective Business Metric?
In a recent blog post, Sidu Ponnappa shared how MTTR should be a key business metric to measure engineering efficiency. Ponnappa notes that only tracking uptime provides no goals to target for improvements. In a recent talk at SREcon22, Courtney Nash, senior research analyst at Verica, shared that MTTR can misrepresent what is actually happening during incidents and can be an unreliable metric.
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Programming Your Policies: Justin Cormack at QCon San Francisco 2022
At QCon San Francisco 2022, Justin Cormack, CTO at Docker, presented on Programming your policies. The talk is part of one of the editorial tracks called "Languages of Infra: Beyond YAML."
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Adopting Continuous Deployment: Tom Wanielista at QCon San Francisco 2022
At QCon San Francisco 2022, Tom Wanielista, a staff engineer on infrastructure at Lyft, presented on Adopting Continuous Deployment at his company. The talk is part of one of the editorial tracks called "Architecting Change at Scale."
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Safe Mode is Lyft's Approach to Handling Feature Flags Incidents
Feature flags are a useful tool to conduct A/B experiments and to roll out changes in a controlled way. To make sure that their use does not end up disappointing users when a change causes a crash or degrades the user experience, Lyft created Safe Mode, specifically aimed to prevent crash loops on launch.
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Google Announces New Infrastructure Offerings with C3 Virtual Machines and Hyperdisk
At the latest Cloud Next’22 conference, Google announced two new infrastructure platform offerings with the Compute Engine C3 machine series optimized for high-performance computing and next-generation block storage called Hyperdisk optimized for data-intensive workloads such as Hadoop and DBMS.
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CDK for Terraform Improves Performance by Adding Namespaces
HashiCorp released version 0.13 of the CDK for Terraform (CDKTF) with significant improvements to performance. The release introduces a major restructuring of the language by introducing namespaces. The namespace improvement dramatically enhances the performance of synthesizing infrastructure. This release builds upon the 0.12 release which saw CDKTF move into general availability.
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AWS Lambda Supports Event Filtering for Amazon MSK, Kafka and Amazon MQ
Amazon recently announced that AWS Lambda supports content filtering options for Amazon MSK, Self-Managed Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as event sources. The new options extend the filtering to data store and broker services and reduce traffic to Lambda functions, simplifying application logic and reducing costs.
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Comprehensive Kubernetes Telemetry with AWS Observability Accelerator
AWS recently created a new template within the AWS Observability Accelerator project that provides an integrated telemetry solution for Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) workloads.
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Azure Adds Sustainability Guidance to Well-Architected Framework
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced new technical guidance within the Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF) to help customers and partners achieve their sustainability goals.
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Microsoft Releases Stream Analytics No-Code Editor into General Availability
During the Ignite Conference, Microsoft released Azure Stream Analytics no-code editor, a drag-and-drop canvas for developing jobs for stream processing scenarios such as streaming ETL, ingestion, and materializing data to data into general availability. The no-code editor is hosted in the company’s big-data streaming platform and event ingestion service, Azure Event Hubs.
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Orca Security Report Finds Critical Assets Vulnerable within Three Steps
A report from Orca Security found security gaps within the assessed cloud environments. These include unencrypted sensitive data, S3 buckets with public READ access, root accounts without multi-factor authentication enabled, and publically accessible Kubernetes API servers. In addition, they found that the average attack path only requires three steps to reach business-critical data or assets.
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BellSoft Introduces Alpaquita Linux for Containerized Java Applications
BellSoft has released Alpaquita Linux, an operating system based upon Alpine Linux, optimized for containerized Java applications. A plain Docker image is available, as well as Docker images with Liberica JDK or JRE or a Native Image Kit based upon GraalVM. Alternatively, Alpaquita Linux can be installed via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Linux repositories or an ISO file.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Automanage Machine Best Practices
During the recent Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Automanage Machine Best Practices for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) and Arc-enabled servers (the company’s multi-cloud management solution).
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HashiCorp Vault Enhances Plugin Framework, Adds New Secrets Engines
HashiCorp has released a number of new features and improved core workflows for Vault, their secrets and identity management platform. The improvements include a new PKCS#11 provider, support for Redis and Amazon ElasticCache as secrets engines, improvements to the Transform secrets engine, and a better user experience for working with plugins.
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DataDog Publishes AWS Security Report
DataDog has published their State of AWS Security report, an overview of practices based on data analysis from over 600 organizations. The report compares intersection and divergence between actual usage against industry best practices and the cause of breaches/data leaks.