TLDR DevOps 2024-04-29

Pulumi Lifecycle Management Features πŸ†•, Shift from Cloud to On-Prem ☁️, State of DevSecOps πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

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News & Trends

Announcing New Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Features in Pulumi Cloud (2 minute read)

Pulimi Cloud offers a new wave of Infrastructure Lifecycle Management features that provide enhanced deployment orchestration, workflow, and Day 2 operations management.

Kubernetes 1.30: Multi-Webhook and Modular Authorization Made Much Easier (5 minute read)

This article discusses the newly introduced Structured Authorization Configuration feature in Kubernetes 1.30, which provides a more versatile way to configure the authorization chain, enabling multiple webhooks and providing explicit control mechanisms.
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Opinions & Tutorials

OK Cloud, On-Prem is Alright (22 minute read)

There is a trend of companies moving from a wholesale β€˜migration to cloud' strategy to a more hybrid approach, motivated by finances and previous experience. The causes of retreat from wholesale cloud migration include migration exhaustion and conservatism, cost of hardware, and macroeconomic trends.

Debugging connection count to RabbitMQ from Kubernetes (2 minute read)

This article provides a guide on how to connect RabbitMQ consumers to pods in Kubernetes, including a script for efficiently managing large numbers of connections.
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Miscellaneous

DragonCrawl: Generative AI for High-Quality Mobile Testing (15 minute read)

DragonCrawl, Uber's AI tester, navigates and tests the Uber app using advanced large language models, achieving high stability, zero maintenance, and device resilience while providing new insights into adversarial cases, hallucinations, and the future of mobile testing.

The State of DevSecOps (6 minute read)

This article identifies key trends in DevSecOps identified from the analysis of thousands of applications and cloud environments, such as the prevalence of vulnerabilities in Java services, the ineffectiveness of automated security scanners, the impact of lightweight container images, the persistence of manual cloud deployments, and the need for increased usage of short-lived credentials in CI/CD pipelines.
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Quick Links

Your engineering organization is too expensive (5 minute read)

Implementing platform engineering could help control rising costs within engineering organizations while improving productivity and employee retention.

CloudWatch Container Insights now announces Accelerated Compute Observability on EKS (1 minute read)

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon EKS now automatically discovers critical health metrics from various accelerators and GPUs, providing curated dashboards for monitoring accelerated infrastructure and optimizing AI workloads.

Linus Torvalds on Security, AI, Open Source, and Trust (4 minute read)

This article recaps an interview with Linus Torvalds as he discusses security issues upstream, overhyped AI, open source development, and trust.
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