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DevOps continues its steady growth throughout 2019 and beyond. Here are some highly recommended tools for you and your team to check out and implement into DevOps strategies. Find out exactly what you need for your specific use cases and goals. Have you tested them out? Finding the best DevOps tool is something that will take some experimentation and testing. Like previous years, DevOps is predicted for healthy growth in 2019 and beyond.

Petrica Voicu and Kenneth Kang talk about Hera (High Efficiency Reliable Access to data stores) – an open-source in the Go programming language – and how it helps PayPal to manage database access and deal with issues. Hera scales thousands of PayPal’s applications with connection multiplexing, read-write split, and sharding. Source: infoq.com

In our previous blog posts, we discussed the capabilities and functioning of PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) by Cluster Labs and Replication Manager (repmgr) by 2ndQuadrant. In the final post of this series, we will review the last solution, Patroni by Zalando, and compare all three at the end so you can determine which high availability framework is best for your PostgreSQL hosting deployment. Patroni originated as a fork of Governor, a project from Compose.

At Lyft, like many other companies, we need to make accurate short and long-term forecasts. Some of the metrics that we need to accurately predict are number of driver hours provided by drivers in different regions — i.e our supply side of the business — and also number of rides taken by riders in different regions, i.e. our demand. We have several internal tools that we use to make forecasts.

An increasing number of organizations are migrating from a datacenter composed of virtual machines (VMs) to a “next-generation” cloud-native platform that is built around container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. However, due to the inherent complexity of this move, a migration doesn’t happen overnight. Instead, an organisation will typically be running a hybrid multi-infrastructure and multi-platform environment in which applications span both VMs and containers. Beginning a migration at the edge of a system, using functionality provided by a cloud-native API gateway, and working inwards towards the application opens up several strategies to minimize the pain and risk.

In 1997 IBM’s Deep Blue software beat the World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in a series of six matches. Since then, other programs have beaten human players in games ranging from Jeopardy to Go. Inspired by his loss, Kasparov decided in 2005 to test the success of Human+AI pairs in an online chess tournament.2 He found that the Human+AI team bested the solo human. More surprisingly, he also found that the Human+AI team bested the solo computer, even though the machine outperformed humans.

Multi-cloud solutions, Kubernetes, AWS, and open source software are all having a banner year according to data from Sumo Logic’s customers. Sumo Logic’s annual report reveals some observations and insights about modern applications and DevSecOps in the cloud. Multi-cloud solutions, Kubernetes, AWS, and open source software are all having a banner year according to data from Sumo Logic’s customers. See the key findings, including the top five AWS services and database technologies.

In a recent blog post, HashiCorp announced the full release of Terraform Cloud, an open-source SaaS platform for teams to manage their infrastructure-as-code workflows. This orchestration takes place through cloud-agnostic tools that allow teams to improve their productivity through repeatable automation. This announcement follows their May 2019 announcement of Remote State Management. Source: infoq.com

Recently, Amazon announced that customers can now monitor, isolate, and diagnose their containerized applications and microservices environments using Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights. Cloud Insights is a part of Amazon CloudWatch, a fully-managed monitoring and observability service in AWS targeted for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. Source: infoq.com

Microsoft’s ‘Project Saturn’ is an effort to rearchitect its Azure Stack hybrid computing platform and, possibly one day, to allow key Azure services and APIs to run anywhere. Source: zdnet.com