The Tech Caffeine #4
Big Query Vs Spark, Build Vs Buy, DevOps Topologies, Solving Dual Writes Problem in Distributed Systems and much more..!
✳️ This Week’s Featured Articles ✳️
Comparing BigQuery Processing and Spark Dataproc
This is a very good read from Paypal Team if you are processing your data into GCP and are confused about which services to use. The article provides a good comparison between Spark & Big Query in terms of performance and cost.
Why is it so hard to decide to buy?
In this article, Camille Fournier provides very good insights into the build vs. buy debate. I really liked the summary tweet -
What Team Structure is Right for DevOps to Flourish?
The primary goal of any DevOps effort within an organization is to improve the delivery of value for customers and the business, not in itself to reduce costs, increase automation, or drive everything from configuration management; this means that different organizations might need different team structures in order for effective Dev and Ops collaboration to take place.
This website provides guidance about the Types & Anti-Types of DevOps Team Topologies.
Avoiding dual writes in event-driven applications
This article talks about the outbox pattern with Debezium and Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka to avoid dual writes in your distributed, event-driven applications.
An overview of 7 tech trends reshaping Enterprise Architecture
This article talks about emerging trends like Edge Computing, Microservices, Cloud, CI/CD, SRE, Hyperuatomation, AIOps, etc.
An illustrated guide to GitOps
GitOps is an automated approach to system and infrastructure administration in which the capabilities of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), and Git-based source code control management are combined in order to create and subsequently manage enterprise systems quickly and accurately.
No, DevOps ≠ CI/CD
Today, 83 percent of IT decision-makers report their organization is implementing DevOps practices. Yet the past four State of DevOps Reports has shown the vast majority of organizations are stuck in the middle.
✳️ Noteworthy Course ✳️
Docker Mastery: with Kubernetes +Swarm from a Docker Captain
Build, test, deploy containers with the best mega-course on Docker, Kubernetes, Compose, Swarm and Registry using DevOps
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