Day: May 27, 2023

The IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) toolkit has long been used for application development and also for building BAR files to be deployed to integration nodes, with the IDE’s capabilities making it relatively simple to work with applications and libraries contained in multiple source repositories. The toolkit is not easily automated as such, however, and it may appear that the source layout must be reorganized before automation is possible: the command-line build tools lack some of the toolkit's project-handling capabilities and therefore present some challenges when working with complex source environments. Despite the challenges, this article shows an alternative to reorganization, with relatively little work being needed to allow for automation to proceed.

Quick summary: The toolkit presents a virtual filesystem based on projects, and the command-line equivalent is to fix up the extracted source during a build; a working example is shown below.

Most SRE teams eventually reach a point in their existence where they appear unable to meet all the demands placed upon them. This is when these teams may need to scale. However, it’s important to understand that increasing team capacity is not the same as increasing the number of people on the team. Let’s unpack what scaling a team is all about, what are the indicators, what are steps you can take, and how you know if you’re done.

Scaling Triggers

Sometimes it is very easy to tell whether you need to scale your team or not. For example:

AWS Lambda is a popular serverless platform that allows developers to run code without provisioning or managing servers. In this article, we will discuss how to implement a serverless DevOps pipeline using AWS Lambda and CodePipeline.

What Is AWS Lambda?

AWS Lambda is a computing service that runs code in response to events and automatically scales to meet the demand of the application. Lambda supports several programming languages, including Node.js, Python, Java, Go, and C#. CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service that automates the build, test, and deployment of applications. CodePipeline integrates seamlessly with other AWS services, such as CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and Lambda.