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In a cloud native world, software developers are no longer only responsible for writing code. Today’s developers must write and package code, deploy these services into production, and make sure that the corresponding applications continue to run correctly when released into production.
As part of an ongoing interview series about cloud-native development and easing the developer journey, we've spoken to a number of people about cloud-native challenges. These include different perspectives, including the SRE and platform architect.
In this interview, Ambassador Labs' own Daniel Bryant, Director of DevRel, spoke with our own Bjorn Freeman-Benson, SVP of Engineering, to get both the engineering leadership and architect's point of view. They explored the challenges inherent in the question: "How do you make sure your development teams have the tools they need to manage all of these tasks?". Ultimately the conclusion drawn is that a developer control plane enables developers to control and configure the entire cloud development loop in order to ship software faster.
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Several themes and insights emerged from the conversation:
Platforms are evolving: While Kubernetes has emerged as a kind of standard, providing more granular control and enhancing the ability to curate different platform experiences for different types of teams, it isn't entirely accurate to say that the platform question is settled. Kubernetes may be the platform around which focus has converged because of its fluidity and flexibility, letting you do just about anything. But more broadly, platforms continue to evolve, in large part because there are so many different ways to accomplish the many tasks that make up cloud-native development. On one hand, more mature companies may be happy with the Kubernetes setup. Many others, though, want a more curated, structured and opinionated path, with tools sitting on top of Kubernetes.
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Be sure to check out the additional episodes of the "Livin' on the Edge" podcast.
Key takeaways from the podcast included:
Creating a fast development loop is essential for engineering productivity. Sometimes engineers have to “bend the rules” in order to make this work for them.
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Be sure to check out the additional episodes of the "Livin' on the Edge" podcast.
Key takeaways from the podcast included:
Creating an effective continuous delivery pipeline is essential for enabling fast feedback for developers.
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Crystal Hirschorn, Director of Engineering - Infrastructure, SRE and Developer Experience at Snyk, shared some time with Ambassador Labs's Head of Developer Relations, Daniel Bryant, to talk about all things platform engineering and building control planes that “pave a path” for developers.
Here are some of the key takeaways from their conversation:
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A number of key themes emerged:
HTTP/2 sped up HTTP/1 dramatically – but if you lose one packet on a connection, everything gets stalled until the packet is retransmitted.
This is a fundamental limitation of TCP, so HTTP/3 speeds up HTTP/2 even more by implementing the protocol on top of UDP.
