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Unravelling the Mysteries of Platform Engineering: A Guide for the Curious

Platform engineering has become an increasingly important aspect of modern software development. It provides the infrastructure and tools needed to deploy and manage applications at scale. Platform engineering involves designing, building and maintaining the systems and services that power cloud computing platforms, mobile app development platforms, financial services platforms, social media platforms, e-commerce platforms and other applications.

Here, in this blog, we will provide an overview of what platform engineering is, the benefits of platform engineering, why it is important as well as real-world examples of its use in various industries.

GitHub: Self-Hosted Runner on Kubernetes – How to Setup

GitHub Actions is a powerful CI/CD tool that lets developers build, test, and deploy software through customizable workflows. It provides a managed infrastructure for executing tasks, but sometimes it’s necessary to use a self-hosted infrastructure.

In this blog, we will detail how to set up and leverage self-hosted runners with GitHub Actions, aiming to optimize workflow and improve your development process.

GitHub Actions can use two types of runners: hosted and self-hosted.

Hosted runners are provided by GitHub and run on virtual machines in the cloud.
Self-hosted runners are machines that you set up and manage yourself. They run on your infrastructure, and you can customize them to meet your needs.

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Lambda Function Trigger Enabled Using Code Pipeline.

Why are you doing a lambda function trigger enabled using pipeline?

For the AWS service to invoke your function directly, you need to create a trigger using the Lambda console. A trigger is a resource you configure to allow another AWS service to invoke your function when certain events or conditions occur. Your function can have multiple triggers. Each trigger acts as a client invoking your function independently, and each event that Lambda passes to your function has data from only one trigger. By using the code pipeline we enabled our lambda function trigger when we needed it.

What is the benefit?

People don’t need to add lambda function roles permission manually and don’t need to enable trigger manually because, after policy gets attached to the particular roles then we can enable trigger and it happens by using pipeline whenever we need every time automation happens.

Top 5 Metrics to Measure Your DevOps Performance

DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development and IT operations, with the goal of delivering high-quality software more quickly and reliably. However, measuring the effectiveness of DevOps can be challenging, as it involves multiple teams and processes. In order to ensure that your DevOps tools and practices are delivering the desired outcomes, it’s important to track the right metrics.

Here, in this blog, we’ll discuss the top 5 metrics to measure DevOps performance. These metrics will help teams understand how their DevOps processes are working, identify areas for improvement and ultimately deliver better software faster.

Effective use of these metrics can help organizations achieve their business objectives and stay competitive in today’s fast-paced software development landscape. So, let’s take a look at these DevOps metrics.

Mean Time To Detect (MTTD)

MTTD stands for Mean Time To Detect and is a DevOps metric that measures the average time it takes to detect an incident or problem. It is an important metric for organizations that want to improve their incident response processes and reduce downtime.

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FOSSA: Audit-Grade Open Source Dependency Protection

Automate License Compliance with FOSSA

What is FOSSA?

FOSSA is a software composition analysis tool that continuously scans for open-source components and tracks dependencies and license compliance. FOSSA is an open source management platform used by companies like UBER, SLACK, and NIKE with a policy engine. They have default policies for websites and hosted services that are used for Statistical Analysis System applications.

Use case of FOSSA

FOSSA helps you to manage your open-source components. FOSSA plugs into your development workflow to help your team automatically track, manage, and remediate issues with the open source you use to:

Stay compliant with software licenses and generate required attribution documents
Enforce usage and licensing policies throughout your CI/CD workflow
Monitor and remediate security vulnerabilities
Flag code quality issues and outdated components proactively

Open-source software is a huge asset for a growing company but open-source license compliance can be difficult using legacy tools that are inflexibly forcing the legal team to spend too much time manually addressing gaps. So we need an automated way to cover all license approval scenarios. FOSSA works with all our favorite coding languages- python, C/C++, JavaScript, etc. So Let’s begin with How to run your first scan using FOSSA.