DevOps Round-Up

A Collection of Top DevOps News, Articles, Presentations August 2024 [InfoQ] DevOps Round-Up Sponsored by [ScyllaDB] [Latest Content](#latest-content), [Top Viewed Content](#top-viewed-content), [Top News](#news), [Top Articles](#top-articles), [Top Presentations and Podcasts](#top-presentations-and-podcasts) In this special newsletter we bring you up to date on all the new content and news related to DevOps on InfoQ. We are also maintaining a portal page for this content on InfoQ at: [(. [] Latest Content on InfoQ [Terraform 1.9 Released with Enhanced Input Validation and New String Template Function]( (news, Aug 09, 2024) [Canva Opts for Amazon KDS over SNS+SQS to Save 85% with 25 Billion Events per Day]( (news, Aug 07, 2024) [How the Adidas Platform Team Reduced the Cost of Running Kubernetes Clusters]( (news, Jul 31, 2024) [Google Cloud Enhances Spanner with Dual-Region Configuration]( (news, Aug 01, 2024) [Amazon EC2 R8g Instances with AWS Graviton4 Processors Generally Available]( (news, Jul 26, 2024) [Designing Data Intensive Applications (By O'Reilly)]( Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate the fast-changing landscape of approaches to processing and storing data for data-intensive applications. Understand the distributed systems research upon which modern databases are built, learn from the data architectures of major online services, and more. [Download now](. Sponsored content [Designing Data Intensive Applications (By O'Reilly) - Sponsored by ScyllaDB]( [] Top Viewed Content on InfoQ [Kubernetes without YAML]( (presentations, Jun 19, 2024) [Cloudflare Introduces Advanced Load Balancing to Eliminate Hardware Dependency]( (news, Jul 29, 2024) [CI/CD beyond YAML: The Evolution Towards Pipelines-as-Code]( (presentations, Jul 31, 2024) [Slack Develops Bedrock Operator for Kubernetes StatefulSets]( (news, Aug 07, 2024) [Uber’s Journey to Modernizing Big Data Infrastructure with Google Cloud Platform]( (news, Jun 29, 2024) [] Top News [Atlassian Announces Compass, a Developer Experience Platform]( Atlassian recently announced Compass, a developer experience platform that enhances software architecture performance. Compass streamlines software architecture cataloging, integrating code repositories and toolchain data. Also, it sets the health standards for continuous improvement. [Terraform Fork OpenTofu 1.7.0 Brings State Encryption and More]( OpenTofu 1.7.0 has been released. OpenTofu is an open-source infrastructure-as-code tool for declarative cloud infrastructure creation using various APIs. It was forked last year from HashiCorp's Terraform after changes to the latter's license. The new version introduces several significant features and improvements. [AWS Launches Open-Source Agent for AWS Secrets Manager]( Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new open-source agent for AWS Secrets Manager. According to the company, this agent simplifies the process of retrieving secrets from AWS Secrets Manager, enabling secure and streamlined application access. [ScyllaDB in Action - Free eBook Download (By Manning)]( This eBook, based on the real-world experience of a Discord engineer, provides everything you need to know about ScyllaDB - a distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant database - from your very first queries to running it in a production environment. Discover ScyllaDB’s capabilities the best way—through hands-on examples. [Download now](. Sponsored content [ScyllaDB in Action - Free eBook Download (By Manning) - Sponsored by ScyllaBD]( [CrowdStrike Update Bricks Estimated 8.5M Windows Machines Worldwide]( CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity technology company, recently released a product update that bricked an estimated 8.5 million computers running Windows globally, affecting businesses, individual users, and software companies. The company provides cloud workload protection, endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services. [Ngrok Traffic Inspector Provides Observability for Network Traffic]( The ngrok Traffic Inspector provides observability for traffic towards APIs or services to better understand what is happening and help identify any issues. Since it was previewed earlier this year, the Traffic Inspector has acquired new capabilities based on user feedback and is now officially available through the ngrok dashboard. [] Top Articles [Uber's Blueprint for Zero-Downtime Migration of Complex Trip Fulfillment Platform]( Uber operates a complex real-time fulfillment system. This article discusses migrating this workload from on-premises to a hybrid cloud architecture with no downtime or business impact. [article]( [The Set Piece Strategy: Tackling Complexity in Serverless Applications]( In this article, AWS Serverless Hero Sheen Brisals examines how the characteristics of serverless influence us to think in a new way of architecting and evolving modern applications as set pieces. [article]( [Using GreenOps to Improve Your Operational Efficiency and Save the Planet]( Our infrastructures have environmental and economic costs; the IT sector is responsible for 1.4% of carbon emissions worldwide. GreenOps can be used to help mitigate this impact. [article]( [Database Performance at Scale: A Practical Guide]( Discover critical considerations and best practices for improving database performance based on what has worked, and failed, across thousands of teams in the field. This book provides guidance for understanding the opportunities & trade-offs while trying to optimize data-intensive applications. [Download now](. Sponsored content [Database Performance at Scale: A Practical Guide - Sponsored by ScyllaDB]( [] Top Presentations and Podcasts [Building Better Platforms with Empathy: Case Studies and Counter-Examples]( David Stenglein discusses the shift to a product model for internal platforms and how this benefits from people-centric tools like customer empathy and the new DevEx framework. [David Stenglein]( [Pulumi Adventures: How Python Empowered My Infrastructure beyond YAML]( Adora Nwodo discusses her journey from backend software engineering into the realm of DevOps, exploring how Pulumi became the pivotal tool that empowered her transition. [Adora Nwodo]( [When AIOps Meets MLOps: What it Takes to Deploy ML Models at Scale]( Ghida Ibrahim introduces the concept of AIOps referring to using AI and data-driven tooling to provision, manage and scale distributed IT infra. [Ghida Ibrahim]( [Enhancing Team Dynamics and Psychological Safety in DevOps with Brittany Woods]( In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Brittany Woods about about team dynamics, leadership, and the evolving nature of DevOps and platform engineering. [podcasts]( [Platforms, People and Process for Great Developer Experience]( In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Daniel Bryant, the News Manager at InfoQ, about engineering culture and developer experience. [podcasts]( [Connect with InfoQ on Twitter]( [Connect with InfoQ on Facebook]( [Connect with InfoQ on LinkedIn]( [Connect with InfoQ on Youtube]( You have received this message because you are subscribed to the “Special Reports Newsletter”. To stop receiving this email, please click the following link: [Unsubscribe]( C4Media Inc. (InfoQ.com), 2275 Lake Shore Boulevard West, Suite #325, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M8V 3Y3