DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #696 - 5th May 2024
The DORA survey is back this week, along with posts on Jevons paradox, monitoring and testing ML models, reliability and service architecture and more.
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News
The 2024 DORA Survey is open for responses, with questions focused on hot topics like AI adoption, DevEx, and platform engineering
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/2024-dora-survey-now-open
Very relevant to the evolution of systems administration over the past 15 years, this post looks at the relationship between Jevons paradox and automation.
https://www.timpaul.co.uk/posts/automation-and-the-jevons-paradox/
A post on building robust serverless architectures, describing patterns for dealing with failures and preventing them spreading through an application.
https://community.aws/content/2fdtPfnbvTo5SxTtIC3Emhl0UVG/navigating-through-failures-build-resilient-serverless-systems
A wild story about an interesting implication of S3’s cost model for DOS-like attacks to drive up costs if bucket names are known, and the risk of default configuration to lead to security challenges.
https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1
MemoryDB is a new service from AWS that provides improved durability, fan-out, leader election, safety during reconfiguration and resharding on top of Redis. This post explains some of the technology and approach in accomplishing that.
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/04/25/memorydb.html
An interesting post on the challenges of monitoring ML models, introducing problems like training-serving skew, data and concept drift and data pipeline issues.
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/ml-model-monitoring-in-production-best-practices/
A look at the rise of generative AI-driven code agents and the impact on the future of software engineering.
https://itrevolution.com/articles/the-dawn-of-code-agents-embracing-the-future-of-software-development/