Posts this week on developer portals and naming OpenTelemetry attributes, as well as several posts on people and teams, covering the role of engineering managers and devops in 2024.

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News

A post on the state of Devops, and what those leading devops programs need to think about heading into next year.
https://leaddev.com/process/what-devops-teams-need-know-2024

An interview focused on the evolution of Devops, and the Dagger project, which is allowing for CI infrastructure to be codified and run on popular CI platforms.
https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/dagger-devops-docker/

Team dynamics are a big part of devops, it’s no good just focusing on technology and missing the people side. This post talks about the changing expectations around engineering managers.
https://charity.wtf/2023/12/15/why-should-you-or-anyone-become-an-engineering-manager/

A report on the state of developer portals, with results from a recent survey about measuring developer productivity, portal adoption and spreadsheets.
https://www.getport.io/state-of-internal-developer-portals

Naming is always an interesting challenge. This post looks at best practices for naming OpenTelemetry attributes, including things to avoid.
https://thenewstack.io/top-5-best-practices-for-naming-opentelemetry-attributes/

A post on dynamic configuration management and managing modern cloud-native configurations. The post also introduces the KRM KCL specification and tooling.
https://blog.devgenius.io/a-new-paradigm-for-dynamic-configuration-management-krm-kcl-specification-53b1e1db1e0f

Tools

Aspire is an opinionated stack for building resilient, observable, and configurable cloud-native applications with .NET. It comes with built-in components and developer dashboards.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-dotnet-aspire-simplifying-cloud-native-development-with-dotnet-8/
https://henriquesd.medium.com/net-aspire-296e24b952c0