DevOps Round-Up

A Collection of Top Architecture & Design News, Articles, Presentations March 2023 [InfoQ] DevOps Round-Up Sponsored by [Curity] [Latest Content](#latest-content), [Top Viewed Content](#top-viewed-content), [Top News](#news), [Top Articles](#top-articles), [Top Presentations](#top-presentations-and-interviews) 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 [Microsoft Joins the FinOps Foundation as a Premier Member]( (news, Feb 16, 2023) [AWS Creates New Policy-Based Access Control Language Cedar]( (news, Feb 19, 2023) [Infrastructure as SQL on AWS: IaSQL Enters Beta Adding Multi-Region and Transactions]( (news, Mar 04, 2023) [The Platform Engineering Guide: Principles and Best Practices]( (minibooks, Feb 20, 2023) [AWS Releases New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) EC2 Instances]( (news, Feb 19, 2023) [API Security for the Modern Enterprise]( This eBook covers the most critical aspects of securing APIs and microservices, managing identities, and utilizing standards like OAuth 2, OpenID Connect, and SCIM. [Download Now](. Sponsored content [API Security]( [] Top Viewed Content on InfoQ [Microsoft Introduces Azure Operator Nexus to Simplify Deployment of Network Functions]( (news, Mar 05, 2023) [The Future of Service Mesh is Networking]( (articles, Feb 24, 2023) [CloudFlare Detects a Record 71 Million Request-Per-Second DDoS Attack]( (news, Feb 28, 2023) [Azure Application Gateway Now Supports mTLS and OCSP]( (news, Feb 28, 2023) [Writing Cloud Native Network Functions (CNFs): One Concern per Container]( (articles, Mar 01, 2023) [] Top News [Platform Engineering Challenges: Small Teams, Build Versus Buy, and Building the Wrong Thing]( The team at Syntasso wrote a series of blog posts outlining twelve challenges that platform teams face. These challenges include having a small platform team support a large organization, failing to understand the needs of the platform users, and struggling with the build-vs-buy argument. [GitLab Improves Merge Requests, GitOps Functionality and More]( GitLab has released further point versions of their DevOps software package. Versions 15.3 through 15.9 been released on a monthly cadence. GitLab's first machine-learning powered feature improves merge request approvals, with other significant improvements and fixes ranging from GitOps enhancements, through improvements to IdP, to new functionality for DAST. [Azure Announces Native New Relic Service for Full-Stack Observability]( Azure recently announced a native New Relic service for full-stack observability. The performance monitoring service allows monitoring and troubleshooting of cloud applications in real-time, providing metrics, traces, and logs. [Single Page Application Security 101]( Learn how to solve the SPA security problem by exploring various web architectures, threats, and a standards-based solution called The Token Handler Pattern. Upon reading, you will get a stronger understanding of web security architecture design and the use of URLs and domains. [Read Now](. Sponsored content [Application Security 101]( [gopaddle, a Low Code Internal Developer Platform for MicroK8s and Edge]( gopaddle is a low-code internal developer platform (IDP) for MicroK8s edge cloud. It aims to simplify and accelerate the development of edge cloud applications by providing a web-based interface to Kubernetes developers for creating, deploying, and managing applications. [Amazon Releases Elastic Kubernetes Service for Snowball Edge]( Amazon has released Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere on Snow. This release automates the creation and management of EKS clusters on AWS Snowball Edge devices. These devices are able to run with or without an internet connection. [] Top Articles [Environment-as-a-Service (EaaS) as a Technique to Raise Productivity in Teams]( In essence, EaaS addresses developer productivity issues by providing settings that make it simple for developers to test and mimic real-world uses of their system. This article discusses EaaS. [article]( [Hard-Won Lessons from the Trenches: Failure Modes of Platform Engineering — and How to Avoid Them]( Platform Engineering is a hot topic with many orgs hoping to reap the benefits. However, it is easy to go astray. This article reviews the common pitfalls of building a platform and how to avoid them. [article]( [Containers and Serverless—Rivals or Cohorts?]( This article will try to decode these technologies and explore how developers should consider containers or serverless functions within their tech stack. [article]( [Moving Past Simple Incident Metrics: Courtney Nash on the VOID]( The Verica Open Incident Database (VOID) is assembling publically available software-related incident reports. InfoQ talks with Courtney Nash about their recent findings. [article]( [] Top Presentations [Establishing SRE Foundations with Vladyslav Ukis]( In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Vladyslav Ukis about his new book, Establishing SRE Foundations. [podcast]( [The Challenges of DevOps and the Importance of Developer Experience with Jyoti Bansal]( In this podcast, Shane Hastie spoke to Jyoti Bansal about the challenges of DevOps today and the importance of developer experience for effective software development today. [podcast]( [Chaos Engineering Observability with Visual Metaphors]( Yury Niño Roa introduces a new actor: visual metaphors, discussing visualisation and how to use colours, textures, and shapes to create mental models for observability and chaos engineering. [Yury Niño Roa]( [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