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Google Production Excellence Program "ProdEx": Christof Leng at DOES 2022
Christof Leng, SRE lead at Google, presented ProdEx, their production excellence review program that helps manage operational risks and promote best practices. ProdEx is a community that builds platforms together, establishes standards and promotes best practices, so people learn from each others and grow. Today they have more than 100 SRE teams signed up and have performed more than 1000 reviews.
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Adopting Continuous Deployment: Tom Wanielista at QCon San Francisco 2022
At QCon San Francisco 2022, Tom Wanielista, a staff engineer on infrastructure at Lyft, presented on Adopting Continuous Deployment at his company. The talk is part of one of the editorial tracks called "Architecting Change at Scale."
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Java News Roundup: JEP Updates, GraalVM Code to OpenJDK, Return of JavaOne
This week's Java roundup for October 17th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 19, JDK 20, JavaFX 20, Generational ZGC Build 20, Oracle Labs, Liberica JDK and Native Image Kit, Spring milestone, point and release candidates, EclipseLink 4.0, Quarkus 2.13.3, Micronaut 3.7.2, Hibernate Reactive 1.1.9, JHipster Lite 0.20, Apache Commons CVE, Groovy 4.0.6 and 2.5.29 and the return of JavaOne.
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Disney SRE "Proximity Powered Engineering" Culture: Jason Cox at DOES 2022
Jason Cox, SRE director at Disney, shares how he developed a world-class centralized shared services SRE organization based on “proximity-powered empathy engineering” and three core values: Listen: Know the Business - Know the Mission - Know the Team. Empathize: Shared Mission - Shared Struggles - Shared Wins. Actually Help: Build Community - Build Trust - Build Magic Together.
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Safe Mode is Lyft's Approach to Handling Feature Flags Incidents
Feature flags are a useful tool to conduct A/B experiments and to roll out changes in a controlled way. To make sure that their use does not end up disappointing users when a change causes a crash or degrades the user experience, Lyft created Safe Mode, specifically aimed to prevent crash loops on launch.
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Google Announces New Infrastructure Offerings with C3 Virtual Machines and Hyperdisk
At the latest Cloud Next’22 conference, Google announced two new infrastructure platform offerings with the Compute Engine C3 machine series optimized for high-performance computing and next-generation block storage called Hyperdisk optimized for data-intensive workloads such as Hadoop and DBMS.
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Jonathan Smart on Organizing for Outcomes - DOES 2022
Jonathan Smart shares patterns and anti-patterns to help organzations organize for business value and outcomes. He recommended focusing on “Better”, which is quality, “Value”, “Sooner”, which is time to learning and time to value, “Safer”, which is minimal viable compliance, and “Happier”, which is happier customers, colleagues, citizens, and climate.
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CDK for Terraform Improves Performance by Adding Namespaces
HashiCorp released version 0.13 of the CDK for Terraform (CDKTF) with significant improvements to performance. The release introduces a major restructuring of the language by introducing namespaces. The namespace improvement dramatically enhances the performance of synthesizing infrastructure. This release builds upon the 0.12 release which saw CDKTF move into general availability.
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Tapabrata Pal on DevOps at Fidelity: Investing in Inner Source and Engineering Excellence -DOES 2022
At the DevOps Enterprise Summit Vegas 2022, Tapabrata Pal presented the state of DevOps at Fidelity and their investment in DevOps and inner source. They were facing challenges with their tools sprawl, security, audit and compliance, and their metrics. They focused on a unified developer experience, their tools standardization, continuous compliance and contextual metrics.
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Comprehensive Kubernetes Telemetry with AWS Observability Accelerator
AWS recently created a new template within the AWS Observability Accelerator project that provides an integrated telemetry solution for Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) workloads.
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Microsoft Releases Stream Analytics No-Code Editor into General Availability
During the Ignite Conference, Microsoft released Azure Stream Analytics no-code editor, a drag-and-drop canvas for developing jobs for stream processing scenarios such as streaming ETL, ingestion, and materializing data to data into general availability. The no-code editor is hosted in the company’s big-data streaming platform and event ingestion service, Azure Event Hubs.
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Two New Git Vulnerabilities Affecting Local Clones and Git Shell Patched
Two Git vulnerabilities affecting local clones and git shell interactive mode in version 2.38 and older have been recently patched.
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Orca Security Report Finds Critical Assets Vulnerable within Three Steps
A report from Orca Security found security gaps within the assessed cloud environments. These include unencrypted sensitive data, S3 buckets with public READ access, root accounts without multi-factor authentication enabled, and publically accessible Kubernetes API servers. In addition, they found that the average attack path only requires three steps to reach business-critical data or assets.
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BellSoft Introduces Alpaquita Linux for Containerized Java Applications
BellSoft has released Alpaquita Linux, an operating system based upon Alpine Linux, optimized for containerized Java applications. A plain Docker image is available, as well as Docker images with Liberica JDK or JRE or a Native Image Kit based upon GraalVM. Alternatively, Alpaquita Linux can be installed via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Linux repositories or an ISO file.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Automanage Machine Best Practices
During the recent Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Automanage Machine Best Practices for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) and Arc-enabled servers (the company’s multi-cloud management solution).