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We see our customers going through similar stages, so it’s a good blog post by Sam Gabrail to get an overview of your future IaC journey: https://www.env0.com/blog/expert-guide-the-four-stages-of-terraform-automation

What future awaits aircraft? What solutions might be proven useful and what should we expect? Ignacio Echavarria paints a picture in episode 48 of DevOps Accents: https://mkdev.me/posts/very-different-clouds-and-aerospace-engineering-with-ignacio-echavarr-a-from-dovetail-electric-aviation-48

💡 New to #FinOps on AWS? Check out this quick-start infographic with 6 essential steps to optimize your cloud costs! From enabling Cost Explorer to setting up Anomaly Detection, it’s all here. 📊 Share and save! And if you're ready to dive deeper, get a free cost optimization audit here 👉 https://mkdev.me/b/audits/free-cost-audit-landing #CloudOptimization #AWS #FinOpsTips

Discover how to deploy a GKE cluster using Terraform! We walk through using basic and advanced configurations with hands-on examples to set up your Google Kubernetes Engine effectively. Dive into our tutorial for practical insights: https://mkdev.me/posts/deploying-gke-clusters-with-terraform

Hear ye, hear ye! There's a rumour of a fantastic beast called the 10x Engineer. In some spheres it is called 10x Developer. Today we decided to figure out how to catch and tame such a creature, what are they good for, or could it be nothing more than an urban legend? Elin Brusberg, a highly experienced development manager at Vitec Megler AS and chairperson at DevOpsDays Oslo, will help us in this endeavour.

If you want to catch a 10x Engineer, or are contemplating becoming one, then you owe it to yourself to listen to this episode. We've warned you.

In this episode:

🦊 10x developer — what is that?
🐰 Building a functioning team vs. relying on that one guy;
🐯 How to keep your engineers and developers engaged and invested?
🐼 Comfort vs. Challenge: how people are different sometimes;
🐨 Developer and business manager, how to build this relationship?
🦉 How to choose your hiring priorities?

https://mkdev.me/posts/10x-engineeres-and-where-to-find-them-with-elin-brusberg-from-vitec-megler-49

#podcast #DevOpsAccents #mkdev #teammanagement #10xEngineer #10xDeveloper #TechLeadership #DevOps #SoftwareEngineering #TeamBuilding #DeveloperLife #TechPodcast #EngineeringCulture #BuildingTeams #DeveloperEngagement #EngineeringManagement #BusinessAndTech #DevOpsDays

In the 56th mkdev dispatch Pablo gets a bit existential about the duality of human existence in the face of technological progress. Also DevOps and Cloud articles from around the web. Subscribe to get the next one! https://mkdev.me/posts/time-of-chaos-and-hope-56

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S3 is one of the wonders of the modern world. Luckily, the knowledge about how this number was built is not lost - in fact, VP of this service, Andy Warfield, shares lots of details right in this article: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/07/building-and-operating-a-pretty-big-storage-system.html

What does being a 10x developer even mean? Like, really? Diving deeper in conversation with Elin Brusberg in episode 49 of DevOps Accents: https://mkdev.me/posts/10x-engineeres-and-where-to-find-them-with-elin-brusberg-from-vitec-megler-49

How to replace an irreplaceable person and how to build a team that actually works: that and more in episode 49 of DevOps Accents with our guest Elin Brusberg: https://mkdev.me/posts/10x-engineers-and-where-to-find-them-with-elin-brusberg-from-vitec-megler-49

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We would say that in most cases, up to a huge scale, regular relational database will cover all your needs - as long as you know how to use it. This article by Jean-Mark Wright gives an example of how important is to structure your indexes correctly: https://jaywhy13.hashnode.dev/order-matters-making-a-compound-index-50x-faster

What to focus on in the recruitment process? How to pose your interview questions? How do you balance responsibility in a team? Our guest for episode 49 of DevOps Accents is Elin Brusberg from Vitec Megler. Watch this extended snippet from the episode, or check out the whole conversation wherever you get your podcasts! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GNs_RX_blc

How to design your tasks properly and what to pay attention to? More on retaining your developers’ attention and excitement in episode 49 of DevOps Accents with Elin Brusberg: https://mkdev.me/posts/10x-engineeres-and-where-to-find-them-with-elin-brusberg-from-vitec-megler-49

Learn to craft efficient AWS IAM policies with Kirill Shirinkin's guide on using the least privilege principle via tools like IAM Access Analyzer and ActionHero for secure application permissions: https://mkdev.me/posts/how-to-create-aws-iam-policies-with-actionhero-and-access-analyser

What are the tradeoffs to pay attention to when you’re building your team? Check out the full conversation in episode 49 of DevOps Accents: https://mkdev.me/posts/10x-engineers-and-where-to-find-them-with-elin-brusberg-from-vitec-megler-49

Remember our Helm Lightning Course? In the second bonus lesson of it we are going to learn how to use 3 great Helm Plugins: Helm Git, Helm Diff and Helm Secrets. Check out all the previous lessons from the series and catch up on the new one! https://mkdev.me/posts/top-3-helm-plugins-helm-secrets-helm-diff-and-helm-git

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A long series on SRE, starting from the basics. First posts look very promising and high quality, so definitely worth subscribing! https://jpereira.me/announcing-52-weeks-of-sre-a-journey-to-master-site-reliability-engineering/

All the latest mkdev news, videos and articles in one place + AWS news + “Blameless” culture + other interesting stuff from around the web. Check it out, subscribe for more later! https://mkdev.me/posts/how-to-make-good-webinars-57

We're absolutely thrilled to be celebrating our 50th episode of the DevOps Accents podcast with the incredible Veronica Nigro! We met at Italian Tech Week, where we connected with so many amazing startups. Veronica is the co-founder of mkinf, which provides access to distributed GPUs worldwide, making it easier than ever to scale and optimize AI infrastructure for inference and model deployment!

And that's exactly what we're diving into in the new anniversary episode! If you're curious about how GPU infrastructure in the cloud works, how you can use it, and why you might need it, you won't want to miss it!

https://mkdev.me/posts/gpus-in-cloud-infrastructure-with-veronica-nigro-from-mkinf-50

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Karpenter should be the default for your cluster autoscaling needs. This journey of moving a large infra from cluster autoscaler to Karpenter is an excellent case study of the benefits of Karpenter, written by Tanat Lokejaroenlarb: https://medium.com/adevinta-tech-blog/the-karpenter-effect-redefining-our-kubernetes-operations-80c7ba90a599

What is the difference between GPUs and CPUs, and when should you use what? In episode 50 of DevOps Accents we’ve invited Veronica Nigro from mkinf to talk about all of that and more, check out the full conversation here: https://mkdev.me/posts/gpus-in-cloud-infrastructure-with-veronica-nigro-from-mkinf-50