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The Difficulties of Measuring Engineering

The report is so absurd and naive that it makes no sense to critique it in detail. - Kent Beck responding to the McKinsey Report. Luckily this was a hollow threat, because a few days later he and fellow blogger Gergely Orosz released a two part blog series critiquing not exactly Mckinsey's report but... any report that tried to put “effort based” metrics at the top of the list for things to track.

Application Dependency Maps: The Secret Weapon for Troubleshooting Kubernetes

Picture this: You're knee-deep in the intricacies of a complex Kubernetes deployment, dealing with a web of services and resources that seem like a tangled ball of string. Visualization feels like an impossible dream, and understanding the interactions between resources? Well, that's another story. Meanwhile, your inbox is overflowing with alert emails, your Slack is buzzing with queries from the business side, and all you really want to do is figure out where the glitch is. Stressful? You bet!

Building a Secure By-Design Pipeline with an Open Source Stack - Civo Navigate NA 23

Rotem Refael, Director of Engineering at Armo, delves deep into building a Secure by Design Pipeline using an open-source stack. Emphasizing the importance of the "Shift Left" strategy in the DevSecOps realm, she addresses the gaps in the traditional CI/CD pipeline and suggests comprehensive tools to address them. Rotem showcases the benefits of Kubescape, an open-source solution by Armo for Kubernetes security, and highlights the need for security gates throughout development.

Deploying a multi-availability zone Kubernetes cluster for High Availability

Many cloud infrastructure providers make deploying services as easy as a few clicks. However, making those services high availability (HA) is a different story. What happens to your service if your cloud provider has an Availability Zone (AZ) outage? Will your application still work, and more importantly, can you prove it will still work? In this blog, we'll discuss AZ redundancy with a focus on Kubernetes clusters.

Announcing the Harvester v1.2.0 Release

Ten months have elapsed since we launched Harvester v1.1 back in October of last year. Harvester has since become an integral part of the Rancher platform, experiencing substantial growth within the community while gathering valuable user feedback along the way. Our dedicated team has been hard at work incorporating this feedback into our development process, and today, I am thrilled to introduce Harvester v1.2.0!