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Last week's must-read news and stories from the DevOps community
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Curated DevOps news, tutorials, tools and more!
 
 
 
 

From blameless cultures that mend team morale to the nitty-gritty of optimizing Azure for peak cosmic performance, we’re diving into the good, the bad, and the transformative in today's tech tapestry. Whether it’s tinkering with Lambda or unlocking the full throttle of S3 auto-mounts, these stories will sharpen your edge and spark some creative tweaks in your own realm.


🛠️ Blameless Postmortems: The Secret Sauce of Resilient Teams

☁️ Strategies for Azure: Build Right or Brace for Chaos

📈 Scaling for Holiday Traffic: Azure and Automation Unite

⚡ Boosting EC2 Boot Times: Let's Hit Lightning Speed

🔓 Inside the Secrets Management Checklist

🚀 Optimizing S3 with Mountpoint Innovations

🧠 Platform Engineering: Don't Waste That 65%

🤔 The Truth About 10x Developers

🗝️ Secrets Management: Your Ultimate 18-Point Checklist

🎬 Python: The Documentary Trailer


Stay inquisitive. The tech landscape is a puzzle waiting for you to piece it together.


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Google Study: 65% of Developer Time Wasted Without Platforms
 
 

Platform engineering rescues 65% of developer time usually tossed to the wind, activating productivity and shrinking expenses. No shocker, 86% call it key to unlocking AI's potential, while a brisk 71% of leaders sprint to market faster. Going it solo? Hardly—96% harness open source tools and 84% team up for a smooth ride.

 
 
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Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux for AWS
 
 
RHEL 10 for AWS makes its debut, complete with AWS-tailored performance profiles, beefed-up security, and a seamless CLI. Ready to tango with the cloud like a pro.
 
 
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Mountpoint for Amazon S3 now lets you automatically mount your S3 buckets using fstab
 
 

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 now cracks the fstab problem. It auto-mounts S3 buckets when an EC2 instance comes online, securing those settings even after a reboot. Consider the convenience nailed.

 
 
blogs.windows.com blogs.windows.com
 
The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
 
 

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has been open-sourced, with its code now available on GitHub at Microsoft/WSL. WSL is made up of distribution components that run both within Windows and inside the WSL 2 virtual machine. This open-source release is part of the evolution of WSL, which has seen significant improvements and community contributions over the years.

 
 
 
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A Key Concept in Site Reliability Engineering: Blameless Postmortems
 
 

Blameless cultures—loved by leaders who know what's what—let teams skip the blame game. This means they actually glean lessons from disasters instead of just pointing fingers. Imagine that. You get psychological safety and rock-solid systems as a bonus. Trading the tired "who's fault is it?" for "what went wrong?" and "why did it happen?" peels back layers and reveals those sneaky systemic issues. This fuels non-stop improvement and fortifies team bonds like magic.

 
 
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How Data-Driven Marketers Can Benefit from DevOps Automation
 
 

DevOps isn't exclusively the developer's playground. Marketers wield it for rapid-fire campaign adjustments and juicy insights. Agile automation? It's their secret weapon. Brands like Netflix and Spotify? They use it to turbocharge personalization and conduct real-time tests. No more lurking around, waiting on developers.

 
 
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The Dark Truth About 10x Developers: Debunking the Myth
 
 

Forget the mythical 10x developer; real productivity thrives on team chemistry, not solo acts. Take Sarah—her supernatural gift for communication and bulldozing obstacles didn't make her a code maniac. Instead, she propelled her startup forward by syncing the team and firing them up to win.

 
 

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How To Start Strong In Your First Week As An Engineering Manager
 
 

The first week as an engineering manager (EM) involves preparing for meetings with the team, other managers, and supervisors, as well as talking to one's own manager to understand expectations and priorities. It's crucial to reintroduce oneself to the team, even if promoted from within the company, and to delegate previous tasks, reorganize schedules, and adjust deadlines accordingly. Reflecting on progress at the end of the week and encouraging continuous improvement are key aspects of this transition.

 
 
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The 18-point secrets management checklist
 
 

By 2027, user blunders will cause a staggering 99% of cloud breaches, according to the experts who swear they know these things. Lock down secrets management by centralizing and automating with tools like Okta or Microsoft Entra ID. Don't skimp on IBAC and least-privileged access. Guard your cloud fortress as it levels up.

 
 
dzone.com dzone.com
 
The 4 R’s of Pipeline Reliability: Data Systems That Last
 
 

RAG applications lean on pipelines that can crumble if the 4 R's framework isn't in place: reliable architecture, resumability, recoverability, redundancy. Ingenious stuff!

 
 
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Building Azure Right: A Practical Checklist for Infrastructure Landing Zones
 
 

Azure fans are pros at dodging groundwork, which, surprise, leads to chaos; lay down a rock-solid Landing Zone to hack your costs and cut the pandemonium. Grab Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform to smooth out deployments. Make sure RBAC doesn’t dive into the horror of unmonitored access.

 
 
depot.dev depot.dev
 
Improving EC2 boot time from 4s to 2.8s to accelerate builds
 
 

Revving up Ubuntu 24.04 for a speedier boot, we ditched dead weight like snaps, AppArmor, and cloud-init—trimming userspace boot time from 4 to 2.8 seconds. Banishing IPv6 address checks and pruning systemd services like journald shaved off more precious milliseconds. Next on the chopping block: kernel modules and deep dives into the murky waters of initramfs. Stay tuned.

 
 
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DR 101: Assembling Your Incident Response Team
 
 

A disaster recovery plan relies on a coordinated incident response team. The speed and coordination of this team are crucial for minimizing downtime and keeping the organization running smoothly during a crisis. Key roles within the incident response team include incident commander, technical lead, communications lead, documentation lead, and legal counsel.

 
 
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Traffic meter per ASN without logs
 
 

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Optimizing Cost Management: Leveraging Resource Tagging and Mondoo Policies
 
 

Mondoo tags resources like a masterful librarian labels books. Then, it deploys custom policies that automate compliance like clockwork. Governance becomes a seamless dance, and cloud operations? They sprint faster than Usain Bolt.

 
 
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Shared Database Pattern in Microservices: When Rules Get Broken
 
 

Every shared access point is a potential failure point. The risks are real and can be catastrophic. Safe implementation includes strict data ownership, schema change protocol, data integrity protection, and auditing. Moving to a structured API layer and data separation can help mitigate risks and plan an exit strategy from shared databases.

 
 
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Scaling Azure Microservices for Holiday Peak Traffic
 
 

Automation hacks away scaling migraines for microservices drowning in peak traffic. With Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and IaC, scaling morphs into a cost-effective breeze. Just Cosmos DB autoscaling can shave off up to $7,200 a year. Automation’s the unsung hero of cloud efficiency—no capes needed.

 
 
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X (Twitter) was down — what happened during major outage that stretched into weekend
 
 

X is still on the struggle bus. DMs? Still glitching, after a full day of chaos. Rumor has it, a fire at an Oregon data center might be the culprit. Oh, and two-factor authentication? Down for the count too.

 
 
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Why Are There So Many Databases?   ✅
 
 

Snowflake might not be the cool kid forever, especially as BigQuery and Redshift learn a few tricks. DuckDB can handle small tasks at home, but toss it big data and watch it sweat. Data Lakes whisper about saving cash but then slap you with setup headaches. PostgreSQL is the MVP, effortlessly outdoing MySQL in most scenarios, while SQLite quietly dominates the embedded world. Those "hip" Document databases like MongoDB might just be a passing fad, and Graph databases are like a Swiss army knife that only solves that one puzzling problem. Vector databases are having a moment thanks to the AI frenzy, but multi-model databases like FaunaDB tend to promise the moon and deliver a pebble.

 
 
 
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Declarative workflow orchestration for the mainframe and hybrid cloud

 
 
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Catalogue of novel operating systems

 
 
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Did you know that GitHub still operates on a large monolithic Ruby on Rails application? While microservices are popular, GitHub engineers have scaled their system by optimizing the monolith—implementing database sharding, leveraging background jobs, and employing aggressive caching. This enables them to handle a massive volume of daily requests. Their approach illustrates that a well-architected monolith can scale effectively, offering an alternative to the complexity of microservices.
 
 
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