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AWS

AWS re:Inforce 2019: Cloud Security Experts Address Multi-Cloud Challenges, Talent Gap, and New AWS Tools

At AWS re:Inforce 2019, the inaugural AWS security conference, industry leaders tackled cloud security culture, multi-cloud complexity, the cybersecurity talent gap, and the launches of AWS Control Tower and AWS Security Hub.

Software

Application Release Orchestration Software: Market Landscape, Key Vendors, and Deployment Considerations (2019)

A technical overview of the Application Release Orchestration (ARO) software market, covering key vendors such as XebiaLabs, Electric Cloud, GitLab, IBM, and Red Hat, deployment models, and what DevOps teams should understand when evaluating ARO tools.

Docker

Docker Monitoring Market Landscape (2019): Key Vendors, Segments, and What Engineers Should Know

A technical breakdown of the Docker container monitoring vendor landscape as it stood in 2019, covering major platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, AppDynamics, and Sysdig, along with the market segments and criteria engineers should evaluate.

Azure

Azure Updates Roundup: Monitoring Enhancements, Machine Learning CLI, Blockchain Workbench, and Healthcare Data Management

A roundup of Microsoft Azure updates from mid-2019 covering Azure Monitor for Containers, Blockchain Workbench 1.7.0, new B-series VM sizes, the Azure Machine Learning CLI, API Management for VS Code, and expanded regional availability.

DevOps Tools

Global DevOps Platform Market Overview 2019: Key Players, Segments, and Growth Drivers

An overview of the 2019 global DevOps Platform market landscape, covering major vendors such as Puppet Labs, Chef, Docker, Red Hat Ansible, Atlassian, and SaltStack, along with key industry segments, maturity classifications, and growth factors.

Azure

Azure DevOps Post-Mortem: How a Bug Caused Python’s sqlite3 Module to Go Missing from Linux Images

A regression introduced during a Python version upgrade on Ubuntu 16.04 Azure Pipelines images silently dropped the sqlite3 module. Here is how the Azure DevOps team detected the issue, rolled out a fix through their ring deployment model, and what process improvements they committed to afterward.