We’re excited to announce the third annual Chaos Conf! Given the events with Covid-19 this year, we will be holding this event fully online for the health and safety of attendees. The unforeseen impact of this virus on our lives, our businesses, and our software highlights the importance of preparing for the unexpected. Our theme for this year highlights this: Prepare for moments that matter. Chaos Conf will take place over the course of three days: October 6–8.

Many attempts to simplify programming lead to visual interfaces that provide approachable settings for common tasks. These simplifications may appeal to non-developers, but they send experienced coders running for the command line. Yet, no code tools are rapidly expanding. Zapier, Integromat, and Workato are becoming more popular options and some believe developers won’t be needed for most integrations in the future.

At swampUP 2020, DevOps platform engineer Roman Roberman spoke about AppsFlyer’s need to gain control and automate their development environment. AppsFlyer’s mobile app Attribution Analytics platform helps marketers measure and optimize their user acquisition funnel. Headquartered in San Francisco, AppsFlyer operates 18 global offices, and its platform is integrated with over 2,000 ad networks, including Yahoo, Google, and Bing.

Many of the organizations use AWS as their cloud infrastructure, and in general they have multiple AWS accounts for production, staging, and development. Inevitably, this would result in losing track of various experimental AWS resources instantiated by your developers. Eventually, you will be paying AWS bills for resources which could have been identified and deleted in time. So, how should you go about identifying and deleting such unnecessary resources? aws-nuke to the rescue.

What software assets does your organization use? What sounds like a simple question is anything but. If we include every package and dependency that ends up in the code we produce then for most development teams the truthful answer is ‘we don’t know’. As we’ve said enough times already, that really isn’t good enough anymore. And that’s one of the core motivations behind Cloudsmith.

Spring Cloud Data Flow first emerged in 2015 as an evolution of the innovative Spring XD. Since then, hundreds of organizations such as CoreLogic have adopted this open source technology, which is available on Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. Generally available today, Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes addresses the needs of streaming and batch processing in the enterprise. This new offering is only available through the VMware Spring Runtime subscription.

A video chat with the developers who bring right-sized cloud costing information in real-time. It all started with a casual conversation about the cloud and infrastructure monitoring among the team at Galileo and our parent company, The ATS Group. From there, it quickly evolved into a discussion on how we can alleviate a source of frustration for many of our customers.

Blameless CEO Ashar Rizqi recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dustin Pearce in a virtual executive fireside chat and AMA. Dustin is an experienced leader in scaling hyper-growth, cloud-native companies, as the VP of Infrastructure at Instacart and having previously served as Head of Service Engineering at Slack.