Posts on addressing the fear of automation, continuous integration and what 2024 has in store for Devops, plus tools for managing repos at scale, synthetic monitoring and API definition.

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News

What does it look like to deploy an application 30-40 times a day, with contributions from a large number of teams? A post on the move from people-managed deployments to a fully automated system.
https://slack.engineering/the-scary-thing-about-automating-deploys/

An updated long-form post on continuous integration. Although not a new practice, it’s often misunderstood.
https://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html

A detailed post defining microflows, the difference to workflows, and why the distinction is useful in building distributed systems.
https://wso2.com/whitepapers/towards-a-precise-definition-of-microflows-distinguishing-short-lived-orchestration-from-workflows/

A quick guide to using containers to run Llamafile, a project for running open source Large Language Models such as Llama-2-7B or Mistral 7B.
https://dev.to/spara_50/a-quick-guide-to-containerizing-llamafile-1101

Some predictions for Devops in 2024, focused on the continued move to the cloud, the importance of a security-first approach, AI/ML adoption and more.
https://medium.com/@jimoh_abdol/embracing-the-future-devops-in-2024-14e9c835ae11

Tools

Octoherd is a toolset for manipulating lots of GitHub repositories at once. Lots of examples scripts, for things like renaming the main branch, enabling branch protection and more.
https://github.com/octoherd/octoherd
https://github.com/octoherd

TypeSpec is a language for describing APIs and generating other API description languages, client and service code, documentation, and other assets. Support for OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC and more.
https://typespec.io/
https://github.com/microsoft/typespec

Prodzilla is a synthetic monitoring tool. Define probes and stories in a YAML configuration and run them to check a web application is behaving as expected.
https://github.com/prodzilla/prodzilla