DevOps Round-Up

A Collection of Top DevOps News, Articles, Presentations, Podcasts July 2021 [InfoQ] DevOps Round-Up Sponsored by [Payara] [Latest Content](#latest-content), [Top Viewed Content](#top-viewed-content), [Top News](#news), [Top Articles](#top-articles), [Top Presentations & Podcasts](#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 [Jakarta EE 9.1 and the Road to Jakarta EE 10]( (news, Jun 24, 2021) [Terraform 1.0 Release Adds Stability Guarantees and an Improved Upgrade Experience]( (news, Jun 23, 2021) [Cameron Purdy Explains Ecstasy - a New Cloud Native Environment]( (articles, Jun 07, 2021) [The InfoQ eMag: Kubernetes and Cloud Architectures]( (eMag, Jun 04, 2021) [AWS Introduces a New Workflow Studio for AWS Step Functions]( (news, Jun 27, 2021) [Develop Resilient Applications with Event-Driven Microservices]( Learn how to avoid common microservices headaches and discover widely-used design patterns and expert best practices. This guide covers some of the common microservices design patterns and how the best practices can be implemented in Java EE and Payara Micro. [Download now](. Sponsored content [EventDriven]( [] Top Viewed Content on InfoQ [Growing Concerns among Developers about the AWS Free Tier]( (news, May 22, 2021) [AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon ECS Anywhere]( (news, Jun 13, 2021) [Microsoft Announces Preview Service for Building Real-Time Web Applications Called Azure Web PubSub]( (news, May 07, 2021) [AWS Announces the General Availability of Lambda Extensions]( (news, Jun 01, 2021) [AWS Announces the General Availability of AWS Proton]( (news, Jun 18, 2021) [] Top News [Atlassian Open DevOps Integrates Jira with Tools Like GitHub and Datadog]( Atlassian has released Open DevOps, their new platform offering integrating Atlassian products and partner offerings. Open DevOps integrates Jira Software, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Opsgenie into a single project. It is possible to integrate with other tools, such as GitHub and Datadog, with minimal integration. [AWS Announces a Data Management and Analytics Solution Called Amazon FinSpace]( Recently, AWS announced a data management and analytics solution purpose-built for the Financial Services Industry (FSI) called Amazon FinSpace. The service aims to reduce the time it takes for financial analysts to find and access all types of financial data for analysis. [CNCF Publishes Latest Technology Radar Focused on Secrets Management]( CNCF published the fourth edition of the end-user Technology Radar. This time the theme was secrets management: the set of tools and technologies to manage digital authentication. The purpose of this edition is to share what tools are used by end-users, the tools they recommend, and any patterns that emerged. [Beginners Overview Guide to Java Runtimes]( When running Java Web applications, you’ll come across many terms including Web Server, Application Server, and Application Runtime, among others. But what exactly are these and what is the difference between all of them? This guide helps to clarify the differences, and more. [Download now](. Sponsored content [Payara]( [Microsoft Retires Azure Blockchain]( Microsoft recently announced that Azure Blockchain will be retired on September 10. Microsoft credited industry changes and declined interest in the product as main reasons for discontinuing the marketing of Azure Blockchain. Microsoft partners with ConsenSys to offer a migration path for existing customers. ConsenSys’s Quorum Blockchain Service claims to be fully compatible with Azure Blockchain. [OpenTelemetry Moves Python and Swift Tracing API/SDKs to 1.0]( OpenTelemetry released version 1.0 of the Python and Swift distributed tracing API and SDK. They both include OpenTelemetry API support, SDKs, exporters to common telemetry formats, and getting started materials. The Python release is considered stable whereas the Swift release is still in beta. [] Top Articles [Shifting to Continuous Documentation as a New Approach for Code Knowledge]( Documentation quickly becomes stale as code changes. Continuous documentation focuses on ensuring documentation remains up-to-date and usable as the code changes. [article]( [Implementing Microservicilites with Istio]( Microservicilities is a list of cross-cutting concerns that a service must implement apart from the business logic. These concerns include invocation, elasticity and resiliency, among others. [article]( [Implementing Microservicilities with Quarkus and MicroProfile]( Microservicilities is a list of cross-cutting concerns that a service must implement apart from the business logic. These concerns include invocation, elasticity and resiliency, among others. [article]( [Can We Trust the Cloud Not to Fail?]( Theory behind failure detection, and then review a couple of real-world examples of how the mechanism works in a real cloud - on Azure. [article]( [Cloud Native and Kubernetes Observability: Expert Panel]( InfoQ caught up with Observability experts who address the misconceptions and challenges that the users are facing and the open standards that are influencing the industry in general. [article]( [Detailed Review of JDK Implementations]( Journey through the history of the JDK and take a detailed look at the most popular JDK implementations and some important features for an application runtime. Learn more about OpenJDK, AdoptOpenJDK, Zulu, Java 7, Flight Recorder, Liberica, OpenWebStart, and Dragonwell. [Download now](. Sponsored content [Payara]( [] Top Presentations & Podcasts [Safe and Fast Deploys at Planet Scale]( Mathias Schwarz discusses the software management, scalability used by Uber, and the need to have these done automatically by software. [Mathias Schwarz]( [User Simulation for Rapid Outage Mitigation]( Carissa Blossom walks through the monitoring service that Uber developed to identify issues in production, and how they leveraged composable integration tests to cut the time to mitigation in half. [Carissa Blossom]( [Phil Estes on Containerd, Including K8s Deprecation of Dockershim, Container Runtime Architecture]( Today, on The InfoQ Podcast Wes Reisz talks with Phil Estes, one of the containerd maintainers, about container runtimes. [podcast]( [Solving Mysteries Faster with Observability]( Elizabeth Carretto discusses observability at Netflix and where and how their internal tool, Edgar, comes into play. [Elizabeth Carretto]( [Bob Davis of Plutora on DevOps and Value Stream Mapping]( In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Bob Davis of Plutora about DevOps, Value Stream Mapping, making bottlenecks visible, and using metrics effectively. 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