EU Data Privacy: Try Again | SkyPilot: Choose Cheapest Cloud | WFH: Better Meetings
In this week’s The Long View: EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework reemerges, Berkeley brings cloud selection box, and proof that remote work is good work.
Get Comfortable with Shifting Right to Improve Resiliency
The operations team receives a page at 2:00 a.m. Something isn’t working correctly. Do they know how to fix it? Perhaps more importantly, do they know whether it matters to customers or how it impacts the business? There are different techniques that companies implement to maximize the quality of their software. We talk about shifting […]
Migration to AWS Cloud: Do’s and Don’ts
What if one day, you were told to migrate to AWS/GCP/Azure/any other cloud provider? It would likely introduce some stress, to understate the case, right? I’ve seen quite a few migrations in my career and, in this article, I would like to share some thoughts to help DevOps engineers, architects, managers or anyone else who […]
Introduction to MACH Architecture
In recent years, the need to construct end-to-end digital experiences has become increasingly important. But to deliver new features and services promptly, organizations must double down on agility and reusability. As part of this trend, applications have become increasingly modular, often constructed using pre-built microservices and integrating common SaaS to avoid reinventing the wheel. MACH […]
Dead Downtown: It’s YOUR Fault | Pentagon’s FOUR Cloud Vendors | Apple Adds MORE Price Flexibility
In this week’s The Long View: Home working is ripping the heart out of cities, the DoD’s bizarre cloud strategy, and Apple adds a $10,000 app price option.
AWS Makes Economic Case for Graviton Processors
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is making available in preview a C7gn instance on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) based on AWS Graviton processors. The C7gn instances provide up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth and as much as 50% higher packet-processing performance compared to previous-generation C6gn instances. Announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference, […]
How to Select the Right Volume Type/Storage for Your Workload
AWS services are at the top of the cloud services food chain, and a hot topic for nearly every business considering migrating to the cloud. Along any cloud migration journey, many hidden traps await the unprepared. The volumes you’ve already provisioned might seem like a perfect match—but are you sure they suit your workload and […]
AWS Previews Amazon CodeCatalyst to Automatically Create Dev Environments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week launched a preview release of the Amazon CodeCatalyst framework that leverages blueprints to automatically provision and configure developer environments in its cloud. Announced at the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference, Amazon CodeCatalyst takes advantage of a Project Blueprints tool to launch a source code repository and a project management tracker […]
AWS re:Invent — Top 4 Things We Learned This Week
In this week’s The Long View: SnapStart Turbocharges Lambda, Graviton3E ARM HPC SoC, AWS continues hiring, and AWS’s Origin Story.
Implementing Shift Left Security in the Cloud
While ransomware has been the leading concern for enterprise security teams over the few past years, software vulnerabilities are nipping at its heels. The boom in cloud-based apps and services and increased digitization of work have been a boon for hackers, who are taking advantage of developers’ and DevOps teams’ attempts to work faster and […]
Datadog Dives Into Universal Service Monitoring
Datadog, Inc. today made generally available a Universal Service Monitoring service that takes advantage of the extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) microkernel in a Linux operating system to automatically detect all the services that make up an application environment without changes to the code used to construct them. Yrieix Garnier, vice president of product at […]
Logz.io Unveils Managed Open 360 Observability Platform
At the AWS re:Invent 2022 conference, Logz.io launched an Open 360 platform that combines multiple open source technologies to provide observability across both existing monolithic and emerging cloud-native application environments. Existing Logz.io offerings included in the Open 360 platform are Logz.io Kubernetes 360, a managed observability platform based on open source tools such as OpenSearch […]
CircleCI Will Use AI to Increase Collective DevOps Intelligence
CircleCI has committed to adding additional collective intelligence capabilities to its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that will leverage machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize application development and delivery. CircleCI CEO Jim Rose said that as the company’s namesake CI/CD platform continues to collect more telemetry data from multiple customers, […]
VMware Backup Guide for Hyper-V Admins
At first glance, the Hyper-V and VMware virtual environments may seem similar, but upon closer inspection, a number of important differences between these two virtualization platforms become apparent. Initially, performing administration for VMware vSphere could present some challenges for administrators who are familiar with Hyper-V. There are several reasons a business might be switching from […]
DevOps, Drought and Climate | Meta❤️PTP
In this week’s The Long View: Data centers cause climate change, and Meta is rolling out Precision Time Protocol.
Data Centers IN SPAAACE | Discord GDPR Fine | AWS Fires Dead Wood
In this week’s The Long View: The EU wants to put servers in orbit, a GDPR penalty for Discord, and Amazon has the hatchet out.
Infrastructure Abstraction Will Be Key to Managing Multi-Cloud
There’s no doubt we’re now living in a hybrid multi-cloud age. Companies are using major cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCP with niche cloud computing providers emerging within the market. Simultaneously, many organizations still retain workloads in on-premises data centers or embrace colocation. Regardless of deployment pattern, DevOps teams desire the same elasticity as […]
5 Tips for Securing DevOps: What You Wish You Knew Sooner
Foundations and frameworks, concrete and steel—not exciting. But that’s the foundation and framing of pretty much every modern building. Everything else that is part of a building–flooring, wiring, lighting, room placement and so on—is made possible by the foundation and the framework. If you want DevOps to succeed in your organization, you have to start […]
SAP Adds Low-Code Platform to Build Custom Apps Faster
At the SAP TechEd 2022 conference, SAP SE today announced it has added a low-code platform, dubbed SAP Build, to its portfolio to make it simpler for organizations to build custom applications. Sebastian Schrötel, vice president and head of low-code/no-code solutions for SAP, said SAP Build is designed to make the company’s low-code tools more […]
Critical Vulnerability Discovered in Open Source Backstage Platform
Oxeye today disclosed that it has discovered a critical vulnerability in the open source Backstage software used to build developer portals. Backstage was originally created by Spotify. A 1.5.1 update to the Backstage platform remediated a sandbox escape vulnerability that can occur via a third-party Scaffolder plug-in that could be used to conduct unauthenticated remote […]
HPE Adds VMware Cloud Platform to Managed GreenLake Service
At the VMware Explore 2022 Europe conference, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and VMware, Inc. this week extended their alliance to integrate instances of the VMware Cloud platform into the managed HPE GreenLake service. Hang Tan, chief strategy officer for HPE, said for the first time HPE is managing the entire VMware Cloud stack in addition to […]
IBM Adds Fully Managed VMware Service to Cloud Portfolio
At the VMware Explore 2022 Europe conference, IBM this week announced an IBM Cloud for VMware-as-a-Service offering that integrates instances of VMware Cloud with the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform managed by IBM in the cloud. Rohit Badlaney, vice president of product management and strategy for IBM Cloud, said now that VMware Cloud can be consumed as […]
Fastly Adds Observability Tools for Edge Computing Environments
Fastly, Inc. this week added a set of observability tools to its portfolio that are optimized for edge computing platforms connected to its content delivery network (CDN). Laura Thomson, senior vice president of engineering at Fastly, said the company is now providing a set of tools that enable DevOps teams to capture logging data and […]