Road to Terragnt 🛣️, Moving Back To On-Prem ☁️, 3 Observability Pillars 🔍

Terragrunt 1.0 provides new features like UX enhancements, Terragrunt Stacks, Remote Runners, and community engagement initiatives ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

Sign Up |Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR DevOps 2024-10-25 Free Gartner® Report: Telemetry Pipelines (Sponsor) Companies are looking for better ways to manage their log data — and Gartner® predicts that "by 2026, 40% of log telemetry will be processed through a telemetry pipeline product." Find out what Gartner® analysts have to say about the benefits and implementation risks of this approach in this Innovation Insight report, offered by Chronosphere. 📱 News & Trends The Road to Terragrunt 1.0 (9 minute read) Terragrunt 1.0 provides new features like UX enhancements, Terragrunt Stacks, Remote Runners, and community engagement initiatives that promise to transform infrastructure as code management. Grafana 11.3 release: Scenes-powered dashboards, visualization and panel updates, and more (9 minute read) Grafana 11.3 introduces Scenes-powered dashboards, paving the way for the future of Grafana dashboards. It also enhances the current dashboard experience with new features like API-triggering Actions, Grafana-managed alerts, and Explore Logs for easier data insights. 🚀 Opinions & Tutorials Unpopular opinion about "Moving back to on-prem" (7 minute read) The trend of organizations moving from the public cloud back to on-premises infrastructure is a myth. The public cloud remains the future due to its scalability, cost-effectiveness, and support for modern applications. Organizations must adopt a strategic approach to maximize the benefits of the public cloud, focusing on cost management, security, and employee training. How to benchmark application performance from the user's perspective (4 minute read) It is important to benchmark application performance from the user's perspective and assess entire critical user journeys rather than just individual components. Use tools like Locust to simulate real-world user behavior. 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It is easily extendable through plugins. OpenFeature (GitHub Repo) OpenFeature is an open specification that provides a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging that works with your favorite feature flag management tool or in-house solution. 🎁 Miscellaneous Best Practices for Testing Zone Redundancy (5 minute read) It is important to truly validate zone redundancy in cloud services. Simply deploying across multiple zones does not guarantee resilience to outages. Rigorous testing is needed to ensure that systems can handle failures, manage load effectively, and maintain performance without depending on critical resources in the impacted zone. Can Your Platform Do Policy? Accelerate Teams With Platform L7 Policy Functionality (9 minute read) Using Istio and Open Policy Agent (OPA) to implement Layer 7 application authorization policies as a shared service allows platform teams to focus on core competencies. This post provides a guide on how to set up and deploy OPA with Istio to enforce fine-grained access control in microservices, enhancing security and compliance across application teams. ⚡ Quick Links The 3 pillars of observability: Unified logs, metrics, and traces (5 minute read) This post dives into the evolution of observability in software systems, covers the three core pillars (metrics, logs, and traces), and introduces a new fourth pillar, profiling. What's new with Robinhood, our in-house load balancing service (13 minute read) Robinhood is an innovative load balancing service that leverages PID controllers to effectively manage internal server traffic, ensuring improved reliability and significant cost savings across its global data centers. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! Share your referral link below with friends to get free TLDR swag! https://refer.tldr.tech/3b85ceef/10 Track your referrals here. 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