DevOps Round-Up

A Collection of Top DevOps News, Articles, Presentations June 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 [AWS Open-Sources Policy-Based Access Control Language Cedar]( (news, Jun 11, 2023) [Introducing Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro]( (news, Jun 09, 2023) [InfraCopilot, a Conversational Infrastructure-as-Code Editor]( (news, May 31, 2023) [Effective Test Automation Approaches for Modern CI/CD Pipelines]( (articles, May 31, 2023) [Azure Deployment Environments Now Generally Available]( (news, May 31, 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 [Simplify HTTP Request Buffering with Queue-Level Routing Configuration and BufferTask API]( (news, May 11, 2023) [Google Announces Preview of AlloyDB Omni: Run a PostgreSQL-Compatible Database Anywhere]( (news, Apr 04, 2023) [Patcher, a Tool to Keep Updating Infrastructure as a Code]( (news, Apr 15, 2023) [The Silent Platform Revolution: How eBPF Is Fundamentally Transforming Cloud-Native Platforms]( (articles, Apr 06, 2023) [Google Service Weaver Enables Coding as a Monolith and Deploying as Microservices]( (news, Mar 11, 2023) [] Top News [Kwok, a Tool to Spin up Kubernetes Nodes in a Second]( Kubernetes community announces the availability of Kwok, a toolkit to set up a Kubernetes cluster of thousands of nodes in seconds. All the nodes are simulated, in this way, the fake cluster has a low resource footprint and can be up and running on a laptop. This tool is developed to test Kubernetes controllers at scale without spinning up any portion of the infrastructure. [AWS Announces the General Availability of Private Access to the Management Console]( AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of private access to the AWS management console. Private access is a new security feature that allows customers to limit access to the AWS Management Console from their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) or connected networks to a set of trusted AWS accounts and organizations. [LocalStack 2.0: Open-Source Tool for Local Cloud Development Gets Significant Updates]( The company LocalStack recently announced the general availability of LocalStack 2.0, an open-source tool for the local development and testing of cloud applications. [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]( [Meta Switches to MySQL Raft to Improve Reliability and Operational Simplicity]( Meta is rolling out MySQL Raft in its data centers to replace its current MySQL semisynchronous databases. The new consensus engine helps operation and allows MySQL servers to take responsibility for promotions and membership. [Tales of Kafka at Cloudflare: Andrea Medda and Matt Boyle at QCon London]( At QCon London, Andrea Medda, senior systems engineer at Cloudflare, and Matt Boyle, engineering manager at Cloudflare, shared the lessons their platform services team learned from enabling the use of Apache Kafka at the scale of 1 trillion messages. [] Top Articles [The Great Lambda Migration to Kubernetes Jobs—a Journey in Three Parts]( In this article, I’d like to share our journey at Firefly on a great migration from serverless to Kubernetes jobs, lessons learned, and the technologies that helped us do so with minimal pain. [article]( [A Simpler Testing Pyramid: Getting the Most out of Your Tests]( Overcomplicating your test structure can lead to slow, brittle tests. A focus on test speed as the primary labeling mechanism maximizes your test investment. [article]( [Dark Side of DevOps - the Price of Shifting Left and Ways to Make it Affordable]( Topics like “you build it, you run it” and “shifting testing/security/data governance left” are popular. What does it mean for the developers? Learn solutions that can help you Shifting Left. [article]( [Improving CI/CD Pipelines through Observability]( CI/CD pipelines can be improved by the selective addition of observability. This article covers what data to monitor and how to best visualize the collected data. [article]( [The Future of Istio: Sidecar-Less and Sidecar with Ambient Mesh]( Istio's new ambient mesh allows for a sidecar-less data plane. This article discusses the advantages of that approach and the work that went into making it a reality. [article]( [] Top Presentations [Sidecars, eBPF and the Future of Service Mesh]( Jim Barton discusses the challenges of service mesh today, along with the latest developments in what the service mesh community is doing to improve its implementations. [presentations]( [On beyond Serverless: CALM Lessons and a New Stack for Programming the Cloud]( Joe Hellerstein shares lessons from research on how we can deliver stateful, communicating, autoscaling cloud software, describing ongoing work in the Hydro Project at Berkeley on programmable cloud. [Joe Hellerstein]( [Moving .NET Apps to the Cloud]( The panelists discuss the benefits and challenges of moving .NET apps and the different options available, including managed Kubernetes services, serverless platforms, and HTTP-based hosting options. [presentations]( [Log4Shell Response Patterns & Learnings from Them]( Tapabrata Pal describes three broad categories of enterprises based on their responses to Log4Shell and identifies the key characteristics of each of these patterns. [Tapabrata Pal]( [DevSusOps - Bringing Sustainability Concerns to Development and Operations]( Adrian Cockcroft defines terminology and introduces the mental models needed to make sense of sustainability as a non-functional requirement for developing and operating systems. 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