DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #662 - 3rd September 2023

The State of Devops report is back, along with posts on problems measuring latency, event-driven architecture, measuring developer productivity and serverless adoption.

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News

The State of Devops report is back, this year exploring what are the core values and processes that create successful platform engineering teams.
https://www.puppet.com/blog/state-devops-report-2024
https://repdata.decipherinc.com/survey/selfserve/53b/230809

An interesting post on measuring developer productivity, and the tyranny of incentives. A response to a recent proposal from McKinsey.
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-developer-productivity

A solid introduction to event driven architecture, explaining the basic concepts in detail.
https://wso2.com/blogs/thesource/exploring-event-driven-architecture-a-beginners-guide-for-cloud-native-developers/

What’s the problem with using P99 for measuring latency? This post delves into that question and makes a number of interesting observations.
https://thenewstack.io/if-p99-latency-is-bs-whats-the-alternative/

An interesting set of interviews with people working in SRE.
https://www.srestories.dev/

Some stats on serverless adoption in major cloud environments, pulled from a recent report using telemetry data.
https://theserverlessedge.com/8-new-facts-to-consider-in-the-serverless-v-containers-debate/

Tools

The OWASP Top Ten is probably familiar to lots of readers, but the incubating OWASP Kubernetes Top Ten might not be. The top security risks to address when running Kubernetes.
https://owasp.org/www-project-kubernetes-top-ten/