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Fastly is an edge cloud platform that includes a content delivery network (CDN), as well as services for image optimization, video streaming, cloud security, and load balancing. These services are supported by a network of caches in different locations, which enables enterprise-scale companies to deliver applications to users as quickly as possible, even in times of peak traffic.
Organizations looking to scale DevOps implementations, improve their DevOps strategy, and deliver production code fast and reliably should take note of Platform Ops. Platform Ops will reshape the way we deliver value to the customer by offering an internal marketplace of self-service capabilities to many different internal business consumers. Platform Ops is an implementation of broader DevOps strategy, philosophies, and principles.
DevOps tool of the month is a series, where each month I will introduce one new useful DevOps tool in 2021 For March I chose: Shipa – Shipa’s cloud native application management framework makes working with Kubernetes for developers extremely easy.
FireHydrant uses a CLI for some developer actions, called fhd (FireHydrant developers). Previously, we might have distributed workflows among new developers by having them copy/paste or clone scripts down to their machines--but Crystal lets us encapsulate shared tooling in a compiled binary. This way, we have a CLI that developers can install quickly, and that works seamlessly with our other tools.
Software development by distributed teams is nothing new. But since 2020, it’s no longer just teams that are globally dispersed, it is the individual team members themselves. Remote working is the new normal. So in this unpredictable, “modern” world we’re in, how do you put together a solution that delivers for every single team member, no matter their location?