The hottest DevOps Substack posts right now

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Lean SRE

Certo Modo • 19 implied HN points • 18 Mar 24
🕹 Technology SRE DevOps Webinar Startup Automation
  1. Smaller organizations and startups can benefit from implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, leading to reduced operational costs and time savings.
  2. Implementing SRE practices in smaller companies may differ in approach from larger organizations, but can still yield significant benefits.
  3. Starting an SRE program at a larger company can be achieved by beginning with just one software engineering team.

SAI Notes #04: CI/CD for Machine Learning.

SwirlAI Newsletter • 511 implied HN points • 28 May 23
🕹 Technology Machine Learning DevOps Organizational Structure
  1. In Machine Learning projects, CI/CD processes need to treat the ML training pipeline separately from regular software pipelines.
  2. Efficient MLOps implementation requires an organizational structure where ML product development flows within a single end-to-end ML team.
  3. ML systems in mature MLOps setups involve ML teams building and delivering pipelines that expose predictions to end users through backend and frontend services.

12 Scenarios of Failure: Applying Chaos Engineering to SAP | Guilherme Sesterheim

Dev Interrupted • 32 implied HN points • 06 Feb 24
🕹 Technology DevOps Personal Branding
  1. Guilherme Sesterheim discusses applying Chaos Engineering to SAP systems to test and improve resilience.
  2. It's beneficial to have a trifecta of engineering, product, and UX at senior leadership levels for better outcomes.
  3. Anton Zaides argues that hiring only senior engineers is not the best policy and suggests considering junior engineers for fresh energy and adaptiveness.
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My Love, Hate Relationship.

Data Engineering Central • 137 implied HN points • 24 Jul 23
🕹 Technology Data Engineering AWS Serverless DevOps CI/CD
  1. Data Engineers may have a love-hate relationship with AWS Lambdas due to their versatility but occasional limitations.
  2. AWS Lambdas are under-utilized in Data Engineering but offer benefits like cheap solutions, ease of use, and driving better practices.
  3. AWS Lambdas are handy for processing small datasets, running data quality checks, and executing quick logic while reducing architecture complexity and cost.

Mobile DevOps for Enterprise that Just Works

Jacob’s Tech Tavern • 3 HN points • 15 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Development DevOps Enterprise Automation Mobile
  1. Mobile DevOps for Enterprise can be challenging due to the unique requirements and constraints of mobile development.
  2. Appcircle offers a more streamlined and user-friendly approach to setting up CI/CD pipelines, especially for mobile projects.
  3. Appcircle provides advantages such as simplified infrastructure management, faster build speeds, comprehensive permissions management, and features like tester management and enterprise app store.

AImagine: Pioneering Hyperrealistic AI Image Generation

CodeLink’s Substack • 19 implied HN points • 18 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Image Generation DevOps Security Privacy
  1. AI technology is revolutionizing image generation and manipulation, offering new creative possibilities and demand
  2. AImagine app by CodeLink stands out for its hyperrealistic results and high level of customization in generating unique images
  3. Utilizing innovative technologies like the stable diffusion model, Flutter, and Python, AImagine offers a seamless user experience and efficient server-side processing

It's not the DevOps engineers’ fault that the ecosystem is broken

Condensing the Cloud • 19 implied HN points • 18 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Software Development DevOps Ecosystem Version Control Scalability
  1. Blaming DevOps engineers for a broken ecosystem is counterproductive; collaboration is key.
  2. Version control systems may not always control software versions effectively, requiring additional tools in the software supply chain.
  3. Implementing scalable technologies like Kubernetes may not always be the best decision and can lead to inefficiencies.

Developer-Led Low Latency Systems

Tyler’s Musings • 1 HN point • 15 Feb 24
🕹 Technology DevOps Entrepreneurship Investments Infrastructure
  1. Tyler Jewell is now the CEO of Lightbend, focusing on building and securing low latency systems for various renowned companies.
  2. He has a strong background in product management, running successful DevOps companies, and making impactful investments in the developer-led landscape.
  3. Through Lightbend and his expertise, Tyler continues to support and advise startups like AppMap, Archipelo, CUE Labs, Oxeye Security, TheLoops, and Zingly.

DevOps Concepts #2: Autoscaling

Cloud Weekly • 8 implied HN points • 03 Jun 23
🕹 Technology DevOps Cloud Computing AWS Infrastructure
  1. Autoscaling allows you to adjust resources automatically based on traffic, ensuring your application stays performant and resilient.
  2. Auto Scaling Groups in AWS help manage resources by defining minimum, desired, and maximum instances, allowing for easy scaling up and down.
  3. AWS Auto Scaling Groups provide strategies like simple scaling, target scaling, and step scaling to optimize costs and react to traffic based on predefined metrics.

Large Language Model Observability

Monitoring Monitoring • 3 HN points • 04 Apr 23
🕹 Technology AI Startups Monitoring Testing DevOps
  1. Startups are focusing on solving observability challenges for teams using Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4.
  2. LLM-based applications involve sending prompts in English to an API, raising questions about prompt quality, speed optimization, and cost management.
  3. Emerging startups are exploring automating generative testing and incident response using AI models like GitHub's Copilot.

Securing Cloud-Based CI Systems: Best Practices

Iceberg • 1 HN point • 30 Sep 23
🕹 Technology Cloud Computing Cybersecurity Software Development DevOps
  1. Limit who or what can invoke processes in CI systems to reduce the blast radius.
  2. Utilize separate cloud and saas accounts for different environments to enhance security and avoid errors.
  3. Regularly monitor dependency security, distinguish between CI and deployment contexts, and minimize reliance on third-party systems for supply chain risk mitigation.

My Other Computer is Amazon EC2

Bit by Bit • 2 HN points • 18 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Cloud Computing AWS Infrastructure as Code DevOps
  1. Transitioning to running your dev environment on the cloud, like Amazon EC2, can offer more versatility and improved performance.
  2. Key components of setting up a development environment on Amazon EC2 include VPC, Autoscaling Group, and EC2 Instance with specific configurations.
  3. Optimizations like adding tailscale, hibernating instances, using vscode for connection, and utilizing reserved instances can further enhance the cloud-based development setup.

Phoenix Rising: Fortifying Kubernetes and Beyond

ussphoenix • 0 implied HN points • 18 Oct 23
🕹 Technology Security DevOps Networks Open Source Kubernetes
  1. Phoenix AMTD Operator enhances security for Kubernetes clusters, endpoints, and networks.
  2. Dynamic security adjustments with the Phoenix AMTD Operator help maintain a robust defense against emerging threats in Kubernetes environments.
  3. Automating moving target defense strategies can bolster endpoint security and make infrastructure more resilient.

The World Of Helm

Luminotes • 0 implied HN points • 09 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Engineering Kubernetes Programming DevOps Software Development
  1. Helm is like a package manager for Kubernetes, providing templating capabilities and the ability to manage resources and infrastructure.
  2. A Helm chart defines Kubernetes resources in a folder with templates in YAML format, allowing for the creation of releases and packages.
  3. Using Helmfile in combination with Helm simplifies managing multiple charts and deploying different sets of features or values in Kubernetes environments.

How to Show Your Value In DevOps/SRE

Certo Modo • 0 implied HN points • 14 Dec 23
🕹 Technology DevOps Business impact Operational Efficiency Communication Strategies
  1. Focus on demonstrating the impact of your work to the business in terms of time and money saved/made compared to what you are being paid.
  2. Communicate the importance of your work to your peers and stakeholders by adding value propositions to your tasks, measuring impact, and tracking significant wins with supporting metrics.
  3. Consistently delivering impactful work, improving organizational perception, and effective communication can lead to growth opportunities such as team expansion, promotions, and better job offers.

Building DroneCI Pipelines

Certo Modo • 0 implied HN points • 14 Nov 23
🕹 Technology CI/CD DevOps Software Development Monitoring Containers
  1. Each pipeline step in DroneCI can use different container images, allowing for versatile tasks like testing across multiple platforms.
  2. Base64 encoding secrets in DroneCI is a useful technique for securely handling sensitive information like SSH keys.
  3. Monitoring DroneCI pipelines can be enhanced by utilizing Prometheus to track status, duration, and using a Push Gateway to export build metrics.

Why Adopt DevOps & SRE?

Certo Modo • 0 implied HN points • 05 May 23
🕹 Technology DevOps SRE Software Development
  1. In software development, the goal is to make money by increasing subscriptions and shipping code quickly while minimizing operational costs.
  2. DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) help increase code delivery by enabling frequent deployments and short lead times for bug fixes.
  3. DevOps and SRE also help reduce infrastructure costs through techniques like capacity planning and identifying resource bottlenecks to optimize performance.