The hottest DevOps Substack posts right now

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Episode 38: Better Built By Burkhard

burkhardstubert • 19 implied HN points • 16 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Software Development Continuous Delivery Metrics DevOps Performance
  1. Continuous Delivery (CD) means making software ready for users quickly and consistently. It's important for teams to measure their progress with metrics to see how well they are doing.
  2. High-performance teams benefit from focusing on both stability and throughput to deliver great software. Balancing these two areas helps reduce bugs while keeping updates frequent.
  3. Setting clear goals for deployment and recovery times can lead to better software and happier customers. Fast response to issues helps retain customer trust and satisfaction.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Operations in the World of Developer Enablement

realkinetic • 0 implied HN points • 24 Jan 19
🕹 Technology Operations DevOps Cloud Database Infrastructure
  1. NewOps is an evolution of DevOps, focusing on Operations through a product lens to shift Ops teams from masters of production to enablers of production.
  2. Developer Enablement empowers dev teams to control their own destiny, extending responsibilities beyond building products to include testing, security, deployment, and operation of systems.
  3. In the world of Developer Enablement in the cloud, Operations teams take on more advisory roles, providing domain expertise, guidance, and ensuring dev teams consider key operational aspects early in the development process.

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.

Phoenix Rising: Fortifying Kubernetes and Beyond

Phoenix Substack • 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.

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.

No assembly required: the benefits of an opinionated platform

realkinetic • 0 implied HN points • 23 May 24
🕹 Technology DevOps Platform Engineering
  1. Specialists like doctors and lawyers often hesitate to provide clear recommendations to avoid legal issues, leaving people to make decisions on their own.
  2. Cloud platforms like AWS and GCP offer numerous options but lack clear guidance, leading to decision paralysis for users.
  3. An opinionated platform, like Konfig, can save engineering resources by providing pre-configured solutions based on best practices, allowing teams to focus on innovation.

Six practices for implementing Kubernetes on GCP

realkinetic • 0 implied HN points • 27 Feb 23
🕹 Technology Cloud Computing Containerization DevOps Security Automation
  1. Use Minikube for local Kubernetes development to ensure consistency with production version.
  2. Build containers with caution, favoring restricted base images to reduce vulnerabilities and improve security.
  3. Ensure automation in deployments, design for rollbacks, and use immutable infrastructure principles for managing Kubernetes applications.

SRE Doesn’t Scale

realkinetic • 0 implied HN points • 06 Oct 21
🕹 Technology SRE Microservices Cloud DevOps Infrastructure
  1. Implementing SRE in organizations, especially with microservices and cloud, can lead to significant challenges and disruptions.
  2. Scaling the traditional SRE model with microservices becomes resource-intensive and difficult due to the vast number of services to support.
  3. To address scalability issues, consider a framework-oriented model, standardizing tools, codifying best practices, and involving shared responsibility between SRE and development teams.

Structuring a Cloud Infrastructure Organization

realkinetic • 0 implied HN points • 07 Dec 20
🕹 Technology Cloud Infrastructure Product Development DevOps
  1. Transitioning to the cloud involves structuring engineering organizations effectively into product development and infrastructure components.
  2. Operations in the cloud require a balance between empowering developers and maintaining operational efficiencies through tools, standards, and abstractions.
  3. Creating efficient cloud infrastructure organizations involves teams like Developer Productivity, Infrastructure Engineering, and Cloud Engineering, each with specific charters and missions supporting product development.

Scaling DevOps and the Revival of Operations

realkinetic • 0 implied HN points • 18 Apr 18
🕹 Technology DevOps Automation Infrastructure
  1. Ops is evolving due to cloud, automation, and importance of DevOps. The focus is on automation augmenting us for better software.
  2. Operations is shifting to NewOps, bridging cloud infrastructure and product development. Software is the future of Ops.
  3. Specialization and scaling in Ops involve empowering development teams through tooling, automation, and a product mindset. Focus on enabling developers to self-service with guardrails in place.

The Future of Ops

realkinetic • 0 implied HN points • 13 Feb 18
🕹 Technology DevOps Infrastructure Automation Engineering
  1. Traditional Operations is evolving with the move to cloud, embracing the 'NoOps movement' and focusing on automation and key services.
  2. The future of QA and Ops involves a shift towards tool-focused roles, with teams building tools and being embedded within development teams.
  3. NewOps treats Ops like a product team, emphasizes empowering developers, and integrates systems thinking and accountability within development.

Git commit hooks with Husky

The Open Source Expert • 0 implied HN points • 17 Jul 24
🕹 Technology Software Development Programming DevOps Open Source Tools
  1. Using Husky for Git hooks gives you quick feedback before making a commit. This helps catch errors early, saving time later.
  2. Automating checks like linting or testing before a commit prevents you from forgetting to run them manually. It improves the code quality before you share it.
  3. Even with local hooks, don't skip CI checks since they're still important. CI runs on a fresh setup and ensures everything works properly in the project.