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August 16, 2023
By
Mark Otto
Load testing is a foundational pillar of building resilient applications. Today, load testing practices across many organizations are often based on desktop tools, where someone must manually run the performance tests and validate the results before a software release can be promoted to production. This…
August 15, 2023
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Mark Otto
The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is a popular open source toolkit that allows developers to create their cloud infrastructure using high level programming languages. AWS CDK comes bundled with a construct called CDK Pipelines that makes it easy to set up continuous integration,…
August 3, 2023
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Mark Otto
In the previous post of this blog series, we saw how organizations can deploy workloads to virtual machines (VMs) in a hybrid and multicloud environment. This post shows how organizations can address the requirement of deploying containers, and containerized applications to hybrid and multicloud platforms…
July 25, 2023
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Mark Otto
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a business and security discipline that helps ensure the right individuals have access to the correct resources. Organizations often have several IAM frameworks and business processes for their employees to obtain the resources necessary for them to complete their…
July 11, 2023
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Mark Otto
Last week the Developer Tools team announced that AWS CodeBuild now supports GitHub Actions. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that allows you to build and test code. CodeBuild builds are defined as a collection of build commands and related settings, in…
June 27, 2023
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Mark Otto
Relationship graphs in Steampipe are helpful visualizations to provide quick context of your cloud environments which highlight important information about your resources. In our last posts we showed how the open source Steampipe tool can be used to query AWS with SQL with the Steampipe…
June 22, 2023
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Mark Otto
With its implementation of the cluster construct, Kubernetes has streamlined the ability to schedule workloads across a collection of virtual machines (VMs) or nodes. Declarative configuration, immutability, auto-scaling, and self-healing have vastly improved the paradigm of workload management within the cluster. As a result, teams…
June 13, 2023
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Mark Otto
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes. It has native support for AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) users and roles as entities that can authenticate against a cluster. However, some of our…
June 10, 2023
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Mark Otto
Over the past decade, we’ve seen a rapid evolution in how IT operations teams and application developers work together. In the early days, there was a clear division of responsibilities between the two teams, with one team focused on providing and maintaining the servers and…
June 8, 2023
By
Mark Otto
Introduction In my role I regularly have conversations with customers who want to enforce security and governance best practices while providing developers the flexibility and agility they need to innovate quickly. As you embrace DevSecOps, you likely seek to balance governance and agility in your…