TLDR DevOps 2024-09-02

To build for the new AI era, APIs and developer platforms need to evolve. Join API Summit by Kong (free, virtual) to explore the intersection of AIs and APIs, alongside technical leaders from Kong, Goldman Sachs, Axa France, Maersk, and others.

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On the agenda: Go beyond buzzwords to find out what's working today — and where the industry is headed when it comes to LLMs, dedicated clouds, microservices, and automation.

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Slack has introduced new features to Workflow Builder, including plug-and-play templates, enhanced developer tools, and third-party app integrations like PagerDuty and Asana, making no-code automation more accessible. These updates aim to streamline routine tasks, allowing users to automate workflows quickly, regardless of technical expertise.

Elastic has reintroduced Elasticsearch as Open Source by adding AGPL as a licensing option alongside ELv2 and SSPL, marking a return to its open-source roots. This change reflects Elastic's commitment to open-source principles while maintaining flexibility for users and improving its partnership with AWS.

Merck, a global biopharmaceutical company, automated the initialization and monitoring of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) using AWS CloudFormation to enhance resilience and meet recovery time objectives (RTOs). The automation eliminated manual steps, reduced errors, and implemented a monitoring system that provides real-time alerts and daily reports to ensure disaster recovery readiness.

Datadog's Security Inbox helps security and engineering teams prioritize and mitigate security risks by automatically organizing them into an actionable list. It uses a multi-tiered ranking system that considers severity levels, correlated risks, and the number of impacted resources to focus on the most critical threats.

Discover how engineering with empathy can transform your approach to software development, enhance user experiences, and elevate your career as you learn to balance technical skills with a deep understanding of user needs.

What a hypothetical Rust update might look like in 2030.

Serving large language models (LLMs) can be expensive due to hardware accelerator needs and inefficiencies, so organizations require a scalable AI platform that minimizes costs. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) offers features like autoscaling and load balancing, along with a performance benchmarking tool, to help optimize LLM serving on NVIDIA GPUs.

AnandTech, a computing hardware review site, is closing after 27 years.

With Pulumi's new support for using any Terraform or OpenTofu provider, developers can now easily integrate and manage a vast array of cloud services and infrastructure resources within their Pulumi projects, expanding the possibilities for cloud-native application development.

Tetragon empowers production engineers to proactively manage incidents, enforce security policies, and maintain service reliability in Kubernetes environments, ensuring SLA and SLO success through deep observability and real-time insights.