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The Hows and Whys of Effective Production-Readiness Reviews

At QCon Plus November 2021, Nora Jones, CEO and founder of Jeli, talked about how to build production readiness reviews (PRR) with emphasis on context and psychological safety. Her talk focused on the particulars of a PRR process that relates to incidents.

Nora Jones
on Sep 15, 2022
Cloud

Choosing the Right Cloud Infrastructure for Your SaaS Start-up

As a solutions architect, I have been designing SaaS applications for years and I have seen start-ups struggle to find the right cloud infrastructure and improve their product offering. These experiences prompted me to write this article as a tool to help companies make a pragmatic fact and data-driven decision.

Ratnesh Singh Parihar
on Sep 06, 2022
Cloud

Building Workflows with AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions use a state machine to represent the workflow. A workflow consists of a set of tasks, each of which represents a discrete activity to be performed. Each task is defined by a state of the state machine. In this article, we will learn about the main concepts of AWS Step Functions and apply those to build a workflow for a sample business process: Order Fulfillment.

Pratik Das
on Sep 01, 2022
DevOps

What Does Zero Trust Mean for Kubernetes?

Zero trust is a powerful security model that’s at the forefront of modern security practices. It’s also a term that is prone to buzz and hype, making it hard to cut through the noise. So what is zero trust, exactly, and for Kubernetes, what does it mean in concrete terms? In this article, we’ll explore what zero trust is from an engineering perspective.

William Morgan
on Aug 25, 2022
Culture & Methods

Employing Team-Based Agile Coaching to Establish SRE in an Organization

Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. Operations teams need to learn how to provide a scalable SRE infrastructure to enable development teams to run their services efficiently. This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization.

Philipp Gündisch Vladyslav Ukis
on Aug 23, 2022
Cloud

Cloud Native Network Functions Are Here

Compute elasticity, for instance, is reasonably allocated with virtual machines, containers, and orchestrators and managed with CI/CD pipelines. Network elasticity seems to be lacking in implementation. In this article, we show that cloud native network functions are an attempt to bring network applications into the cloud native world.

W. Watson
on Aug 18, 2022
Java

Debezium and Quarkus: Change Data Capture Patterns to Avoid Dual-Writes Problems

It’s common in microservices to write data in two places, a database and then send the content to another microservice. One approach to tackle this problem is dual writes, but you may lose data because of concurrent writes. Debezium is an open-source project for change data capture using the log scanner approach to avoid dual writes and communicate persisted data correctly between services.

Alex Soto
on Aug 15, 2022
DevOps

Infrastructure as a Code—Why Drift Management Is Not Enough

The reality is that configuration drift will remain unavoidable for the foreseeable future. An EaaS solution, coupled with an IaC platform and good change management policies will help you prevent drift and shorten your development cycles.

Roxana Ciobanu
on Aug 09, 2022
DevOps

What Developers Must Know about Zero Trust

Zero trust solves the problem of open network access by allowing access only to the resources a user should be allowed to access. This article covers how to start working with zero trust principles and ideas.

Gilad David Maayan
on Aug 04, 2022
Cloud

Managing Kubernetes Secrets with the External Secrets Operator

Kubernetes doesn’t yet have the capabilities to manage the lifecycle of secrets, so sometimes we need external systems to manage this sensitive information. Once the amount of secret information we need to manage increases, we may need additional tools to simplify and better manage the process. In this article, we’ll take a detailed look at one of these tools, the External Secrets Operator.

Önsel Akin
on Aug 02, 2022
DevOps

Why DevOps Governance is Crucial to Enable Developer Velocity

The application environment should be managed centrally by the DevOps team. This allows them to better track modifications and changes which would then be swift and transparent to developer teams.

Amir Rozenberg
on Jul 27, 2022
DevOps

Discovering the Versatility of OpenEBS

OpenEBS provides storage for stateful applications running on Kubernetes, including dynamic local persistent volumes or replicated volumes using various "data engines". OpenEBS can address a wide range of applications, from casual testing and experimentation to high-performance production workloads

Jerome Petazzoni
on Jul 22, 2022

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