DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #688 - 10th March 2024

Build tools, API observability, eBPF, managing development environments and some comedic relief this week.

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

A look at BuildKit, the modern container image building tool under the hood of Docker Build and other container ecosystem tooling.
https://depot.dev/blog/buildkit-in-depth

A course on API observability, covering an introduction to OpenTelemetry as well as lots of API-specific topics.
https://pages.tyk.io/api-observability-fundamentals-on-demand

The Scaled Agile Devops Maturity Framework is billed as “Enterprise transformation without the risk of culture change!”. Worth a read if you’ve spent time in large organisations :)
https://scaledagiledevops.com/

A post on the benefits of Serverless platforms for small infrastructure automation tasks, with some suggested use cases.
https://stackify.com/why-you-should-go-serverless-for-devops/

Java is coming to RISC-V. A great example of open source innovation at work.
https://devops.com/what-is-risc-v-and-why-has-it-become-important-for-java/

Tools

Daytona is a new tool for managing a development environment. It supports both local and remote environments as well as integration with various Git services and IDEs.
https://github.com/daytonaio/daytona

As eBPF becomes more popular, we need tools to help manage applications using it. bpftop provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs. It displays the average runtime, events per second, and estimated total CPU % for each program.
https://netflixtechblog.com/announcing-bpftop-streamlining-ebpf-performance-optimization-6a727c1ae2e5
https://github.com/Netflix/bpftop