DevOps Round-Up

A Collection of Top DevOps News, Articles, Presentations May 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](#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 [Axion Processor: Google Announces Its First Arm-Based CPU]( (news, Apr 27, 2024) [What's New in Red Hat OpenShift Q1 2024 Enhancements]( (news, Apr 27, 2024) [Allegro Reduces Kafka Producer Latency Outliers by 82% after Switching to XFS]( (news, Apr 26, 2024) [SSH Backdoor from Compromised XZ Utils Library]( (news, Apr 25, 2024) [Azure Event Grid Supports MQTT Last Will and Testament in Public Preview]( (news, Apr 24, 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 [Building SaaS from Scratch Using Cloud-Native Patterns: a Deep Dive into a Cloud Startup]( (news, Apr 18, 2024) [Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter-Scale]( (presentations, Apr 12, 2024) [Architecting for High Availability in the Cloud with Cellular Architecture]( (presentations, Apr 10, 2024) [GitHub Delivers Copilot Enterprise for Large Organizations]( (news, Mar 05, 2024) [Actionforge is a VS Code Extension to Build GitHub Workflows Visually]( (news, Mar 24, 2024) [] Top News [Terraform 1.7 Adds Config-Driven Remove and Test Mocking Ahead of OpenTofu]( Hashicorp announced the release of Terraform 1.7, a new version of the popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool. Terraform now supports config-driven remove capability, a safer way to remove resources from the managed stack’s state data. The new version also comes with mock providers and overrides, as well as several other enhancements in the test framework. [Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices by Martin Thwaites]( Martin Thwaites, an observability evangelist, developer, and developer advocate at honeycomb.io, presented on Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices. The session was part of the "Connecting Systems: APIs, Protocols, Observability" track. [Microsoft Azure Introduces Retina: a Cloud Native Container Networking Observability Platform]( The Microsoft Azure Container Networking team recently announced an open-source project named Retina. This cloud-native container networking observability platform allows DevOps engineers and administrators to visualize, debug, and analyze workload traffic across diverse environments. [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]( [QCon London: How Duolingo Sent 4 Million Push Notifications in 6 Seconds During the Super Bowl Break]( As part of the Super Bowl marketing campaign, Duolingo sent out 4 million mobile push notifications when the company’s five-second ad aired during the commercial break. At QCon London, Doulingo’s engineers presented the asynchronous AWS architecture responsible for broadcasting messages to millions of users across seven US cities. [Cloud Native Computing Foundation Graduation of CloudEvents: Q&A with Clemens Vasters]( Earlier this year, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that CloudEvents had graduated. CloudEvents is a specification designed to expose event metadata in a standardized manner, which helps to ensure interoperability across platforms, services, and systems. [] Top Articles [Modernizing Testing Practices for Jakarta EE Projects]( The article advocates using modern libraries and Testcontainers to facilitate data-driven testing in Java for robust Jakarta Data and Jakarta NoSQL applications. [article]( [How to Get Tech-Debt on the Roadmap]( At QCon San Francisco 2023, Ben Hartshorne talked about integrating technical debt resolutions into a roadmap. It is essential to articulate tech-debt value beyond just calling them technical fixes. [article]( [Managing 238M Memberships at Netflix]( In this article, Diwan shares how the Netflix membership team does distributed systems: the architecture bets, technology choices, and operational semantics. [article]( [AWS Lambda under the Hood]( The AWS Lamda under the Hood article starts with an introduction to Lambda itself to outline the key concepts of the service and its fundamentals with a deep dive into understanding the system. [article]( [Multi-Cloud Observability Using Fluent Bit]( Discover how Fluent Bit, a lightweight tool for collecting and distributing logs, enhances multi-cloud observability, reducing egress costs, and addressing compliance challenges. [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 [Scaling Organizations with Platform Engineering]( Lesley Cordero focuses on how Platform Engineering can drive sustainability for growing organizations through DevOps principles, centralization, and scalable technical practices. [Lesley Cordero]( [Million Dollar Lines of Code: an Engineering Perspective on Cloud Cost Optimization]( Erik Peterson discusses the right timing and approach for engineering cost optimization and how to use cost efficiency metrics as powerful constraints that drive innovation, and engineer profit. [Erik Peterson]( [Relational Data at the Edge]( Justin Kwan and Vignesh Ravichandran discuss Cloudflare’s edge database architecture, unique challenges and practices for data replication, failover and recovery, and custom performance techniques. [Justin Kwan and Vignesh Ravichandran]( [Achieving SLSA Certification with a “Bring-Your-Own-Builder” Framework]( Asra Ali discusses recent work that allows one to wrap existing tools into a SLSA-compliant builder with minimal effort on existing open-source CI/CD platforms. [Asra Ali]( [Streamlining Cloud Development with Deno]( Ryan Dahl discusses Deno Runtime, Deno KV: a datastore anchored by ACID transactions and powered by FoundationDB, Deno Queues, and NPM in Deno. [Ryan Dahl]( [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”. 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