DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #348 - 27th August 2017
Interesting post this week about why devops practices appear to be catching on in the real world, along with academic research into post-incident reviews and a few solid technical posts too.
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Interesting observation about why devops might be working in places where previous service management processes failed; it’s all about the focus on people.
http://www.itskeptic.org/content/why-devops-transformations-succeed-where-itsm-so-often-doesnt
Excellent talk on the potential for firmware to make systems hard to debug, especially those systems dealing with storing data.
https://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/zebras-all-the-way-down-the-engineering-challenges-of-the-data-path
Post-incident reviews, or post-mortems, are an important practice for teams running systems in production. Taking this survey, part of an academic research project, should help us as a community understand them better.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/devops-retros
Naming is important, as it allows us to discuss and share ideas about specific concepts. This post looks to define observability, and how it differs from monitoring. A useful distinction.
https://honeycomb.io/blog/2017/08/observability-whats-in-a-name/
Building serverless systems on Lambda often involves integrating with other supporting services. This post contains a good introduction to SQS usage with Lambra for building async systems.
https://cloudonaut.io/integrate-sqs-and-lambda-serverless-architecture-for-asynchronous-workloads/
A good roundup of some of the core aspects for devops, from culture, automation, process and measurement.
https://blog.xebialabs.com/2017/06/06/4-core-capabilities-devops/
A good set of posts on has to manage configuration in Kubernetes with ConfigMaps and Secrets.
https://medium.com/google-cloud/kubernetes-configmaps-and-secrets-68d061f7ab5b
https://medium.com/google-cloud/kubernetes-configmaps-and-secrets-part-2-3dc37111f0dc
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Squash looks like an interesting idea to build a debugger for microservices. Currently it supports Kubernetes and VSCode. The rolling demo gives you an idea of how it works.
https://github.com/solo-io/squash
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