DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #683 - 4th February 2024

Several posts this week covering developer experience and the impact of generative AI tooling, along with a few posts more generally devops in 2024.

StackHawk sponsors Devops Weekly

[ICYMI] DAST is Dead! Long Live DAST! The Evolution of Dynamic API security Testing webinar is now available on YouTube. Watch on-demand here.
https://sthwk.com/long-live-dast-webinar

News

An interesting post on the perils of productivity metrics for software development, in particular considering the impact of generative AI developer tools.
https://isthisit.nz/posts/2024/engineering-productivity-metrics-genai/

A recent paper on developer experience, including evidence of the benefits of investment in this area, and good points on selling the business benefits.
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3639443

When should you issue an alert? This post talks about the messiness of alerting, and in particular the need to constantly recalibrate alerts to make them useful.
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/alerts-are-fundamentally-messy

A few predictions for devops in 2024. Observability, generative AI, Infrastructure as Code, multi-cloud and security.
https://securityboulevard.com/2024/01/navigating-the-future-devops-predictions-for-2024/

Another 2024 post, with similar conclusions on the future and opportunities of devops.
https://www.kovair.com/blog/future-of-devops-and-opportunities/

A pair of posts on evolving JSON schemas, exploring pros and cons of different approaches. Some of this is specific to Kafka, but much of the content is more widely applicable too.
https://www.creekservice.org/articles/2024/01/08/json-schema-evolution-part-1.html
https://www.creekservice.org/articles/2024/01/09/json-schema-evolution-part-2.html

The top 10 AWS blog posts from 2023. Interesting to see what’s popular in such a large ecosystem.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/the-most-visited-aws-devops-blogs-in-2023/

Events

The 13th annual DevOpsDay LA will happen on Friday March 15th, as part of SCALE21x at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena California.

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/events/devopsday-la
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x