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September 11, 11:06 am

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While platform engineering teams require effective product management, it doesn't necessarily mean they need to hire a dedicated product manager 

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Together With Lumigo

TLDR DevOps 2024-09-11

AWS + Lumigo present: How to pay less for observability, without sacrificing coverage (Sponsor)

The costs of storing and analyzing large volumes of observability data, particularly traces and logs, can quickly spiral out of control. The results can be hazardous to your company's bank account.

Want to find out what you can do about it?

Join the upcoming webinar with Lumigo and AWS ↗️

What you'll learn: Orr Weinstein, VP of Product at Lumigo, and AWS Sr. Solutions Architect, Bhavye Sharma, will explain actionable strategies for reducing microservices observability costs without compromising coverage and effectiveness.

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News & Trends

NGINX has moved to GitHub (1 minute read)

The NGINX team has shifted open-source development to GitHub. It is now accepting contributions via pull requests and managing bug reports and feature requests through the "Issues" tab. Community forums have also moved to GitHub Discussions, with mailing list support available until December 31 to ease the transition.
A global assessment of third-party connection tampering (20 minute read)

A recent study by Cloudflare revealed that 20% of global internet connections are prematurely closed, often due to intentional tampering by third parties. The company aims to bring transparency and understanding to these practices through its comprehensive data insights and new Cloudflare Radar tools.
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Opinions & Tutorials

Using Generative AI to Gain Insights into CloudWatch Logs (5 minute read)

This blog post explains how to use Amazon Bedrock's Generative AI to summarize Amazon CloudWatch log data and display it in custom widgets on CloudWatch dashboards. This integration enhances operational visibility and incident response by providing concise, natural language summaries of log data, streamlining the process of identifying issues and collaboration across teams.
Zero Downtime Deployment in AWS with Tofu/Terraform and SAM (9 minute read)

Zero-downtime deployments have become essential for modern applications, driven by increased user expectations for uninterrupted service. Strategies like instance refresh, blue/green deployments, and canary deployments, along with tools like Terraform, Ansible, and SAM, are key to achieving this seamless experience.
When Certificates Fail: A Story of Bypassed MFA in Remote Access (5 minute read)

A significant vulnerability, where bypassing multi-factor authentication was possible through a simple browser manipulation of a misconfigured mutual TLS setup, was discovered during a penetration test of a customer's Citrix infrastructure.
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Resources & Tools

💥 Join the Voyager Launch from Observe for the Biggest Observability Event of the Year! (Sponsor)

What's in store?

  • Learn about AI-assisted incident response
  • Dive deep into new Observability capabilities
  • Hear insights from leaders at Observe, Snowflake, Dialpad, and RelationalAI (see agenda)

First 100 registrants get exclusive Voyager swag.

Register for the Voyager Launch on 09/26/24

BuffDB (GitHub Repo)

BuffDB is a lightweight, high-performance persistence layer for gRPC written in Rust ideal for edge computing environments with limited bandwidth and critical performance needs. It is designed to support various backends like SQLite, DuckDB, and RocksDB. BuffDB is capable of storing data efficiently using Protobuf as its primary messaging format.
GreenTunnel (GitHub Repo)

GreenTunnel is an open-source application designed to bypass the Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) systems used by many ISPs to block access to certain websites, enabling more open internet browsing.
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Miscellaneous

On-Prem and Kubernetes: A delicate relationship (3 minute read)

This post discusses a complex cloud security deployment for a government organization that required customized infrastructure, extensive collaboration, and a hybrid environment to balance security and flexibility. The three-month project highlighted the importance of architecture, ongoing communication, and understanding the specific environment to ensure the successful protection of data and services.
18 AWS Lambda Microstacks (18 minute read)

This article highlights 18 simple AWS Lambda stacks and use cases, demonstrating Lambda's versatility in integrating cloud services, orchestrating microservices, and automating backend processes across multiple programming languages.
Pinot for Low-Latency Offline Table Analytics (12 minute read)

Uber leverages Apache Pinot to power low-latency, offline analytics for over 100 use cases across its business operations, seamlessly integrating data from systems like Apache Kafka and Hive.

Quick Links

Is Your Product Manager Hurting Platform Engineering? (5 minute read)

While platform engineering teams require effective product management, it doesn't necessarily mean they need to hire a dedicated product manager, as maintaining direct communication and a product mindset among engineers can lead to more innovative and user-focused solutions.
Top 5 security benefits of Platform Engineering (4 minute read)

Platform engineering not only boosts development velocity and time to market but also enhances security through standardization, scalable best practices, reduced attack surfaces, versatility across environments, and prevention of privilege creep.
Automate AWS deployments with HCP Terraform and GitHub Actions (9 minute read)

Streamline your AWS infrastructure deployment by integrating GitHub Actions with HCP Terraform, leveraging the strengths of both for automated, secure, and collaborative infrastructure management.

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