🚀 Four Trends Defining the Observability Market in 2023
Observability market fragmentation, staffing shortages, and cybersecurity budget increase in 2023
Hi everyone,
Welcome to the latest issue of DevOps Letters! In this issue, we cover a range of news and articles related to cloud computing, platform engineering, generative AI, and DevOps security. As always, I hope you find the content informative and useful.
Cloud & DevOps News
What is a Platform Engineering
Platform engineering is the practice of building and maintaining a software platform that enables other developers to build and deploy their applications quickly and efficiently. It involves designing, building, and maintaining infrastructure, tools, and processes that enable developers to focus on creating value for their customers. Key components include infrastructure, tools, processes, and documentation. Platform engineering is important for scaling software development efforts and reducing the time and effort required to bring new products to market.
Amazon Web Services has introduced Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that enables developers to build and scale generative AI applications effortlessly. Bedrock offers access to a diverse selection of Foundation Models (FMs) from AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Stability AI, and Amazon, ensuring that developers can find the right model for their specific use case. With its seamless integration with AWS tools and capabilities, Bedrock allows for the rapid deployment of scalable, reliable, and secure generative AI applications. Key use cases include text generation, chatbots, search, text summarization, and personalization.
AWS OpsWorks to Deploy an Application
This article on Medium by TheRawKnightt provides a step-by-step guide on how to deploy a PHP application using AWS OpsWorks. The article also discusses the benefits of using OpsWorks for application lifecycle management, CI/CD, microservices architecture, and configuration management. The guide includes prerequisites and AWS services used, such as EC2, ELB, IAM, and VPC.
Four Trends Defining the Observability Market in 2023
Observability has grown exponentially in recent years, with dozens of companies rushing in to stake their claim in the market. The market has fragmented into categories such as application, data, network, and edge observability, and staffing shortages and consolidation are needed to simplify the market. CFOs are looking to reduce tool sprawl and cut costs, but cybersecurity remains a budget bright spot. Observability and cybersecurity converge as cybersecurity teams need robust exploration tools, rational data storage and routing options, and the ability to maintain budgets.
Google Previews Generative AI Service to Improve Code
Google has previewed a generative AI service, Duet AI for Google Cloud, that provides real-time code recommendations, generates code blocks, and suggests fixes for vulnerabilities and errors. The service also enables DevOps teams to create custom large language models based on their own code. Google plans to integrate the service with multiple integrated development environments and make it accessible via its tools and managed services. The use of generative AI within DevOps workflows is still in its early days, but it has the potential to automate many manual tasks and improve the overall DevOps experience.
DevOps Security: Your Complete Checklist
DevOps security requires a shift in operational policies and security mindset, integrating security strategies directly into the DevOps pipeline. A checklist includes analyzing development processes for security hazards, creating common goals between development and security teams, integrating security procedures into development, adding observability to the pipeline, making changes in small incremental units, and scanning and securing the entire DevOps pipeline.
AWS Open Sources Security Tools
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has open-sourced two security tools at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America: Cedar, a policy language and authorization engine, and Snapchange, a snapshot fuzzing tool that leverages the Linux kernel’s built-in virtual machine program, KVM. Cedar is already used by AWS Verified Permissions and AWS Verified Access managed services, while Snapchange is an experimental project. Both tools are available on GitHub under Apache License version 2.
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