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CTO.ai will be at Open Source Summit in Vancouver!

biagotaski — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:13:01 +0000

Hi devs!

We’re excited to announce that we will be at Open Source Summit North America in Vancouver on May 10-12! Visit us at booth G10 to talk about ways to measure & automate your cloud native workflows!

See you there!

Imperative vs Declarative Programming in DevOps

biagotaski — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 22:18:22 +0000

Some teams might adopt several tools to automate DevOps with Infrastructure as Code, depending on the team's maturity level, which implies knowledge about declarative and imperative programming. These approaches are easy to find in many IaC tools.

Still, for an efficient implementation of an IaC in your project, see the difference between these approaches:

Imperative: The code written is very explicit in every single line, which will help the computer understand how the algorithm should be executed. The developer will put on the "machine's hat" and think like a machine to understand how the computer operates so it can understand the given instructions. It's a more detailed programming style, which requires deep knowledge of code skills.
Declarative: For the declarative approach, there's more abstraction when writing the IaC to tell what you want to be executed. It is more focused on the outcome without explicitly defining every step or condition the code will perform in the machine.

As an example of an imperative code, this one below creates explicitly the function that will track the events that will be sent to CTO.ai's Platform in order to measure the deployment metrics with DORA:

export async function track(
  tags: string[] | string,
  metadata: object,
): Promise<void> {
  try {
    await request.track({
      tags: Array.isArray(tags) ? tags : [tags],
      ...metadata,
    })
  } catch (e) {
    throw new CTOAI_Error(100, 'sdk.track')
  }
}

And for the Declarative code type, we can demonstrate it by importing the SDK to declare the event that will be traced.

sdk.track([], {
        event_name: 'deployment',
        event_action: 'failed',
        environment: STACK_ENV,
        repo: STACK_REPO,
        branch: STACK_TAG,
        commit: STACK_TAG,
        image: `${STACK_REPO}:${STACK_TAG}`
      })

Both approaches may be used when defining the Infrastructure as Code to automate Workflow processes for software deliveries. However, declarative programming is the most common approach used in DevOps tools, such as Terraform and CloudFormation from AWS, because it's more efficient for replicating the code throughout the CI/CD definition.

With the CTO.ai Developer Control Plane, the way of defining infrastructure is mostly in the declarative approach, although the usage of imperative programming can be applicable in some cases, depending on how are the developer workflows of an organization.

You can see the source code of the SDKs provided by CTO.ai mentioned in this article, which allow teams to write customizable workflows and enable dev teams to interact with deployment and builds from Slack or GitHub.

Therefore, you can see some templates of workflows, which you can see in this GitHub repository, in order to measure your deployment performance with DORA metrics by sending deployment data to the Platform.

I hope this helped you understand Imperative and Declarative concepts and their applicability in DevOps within IaC for Workflows definition.

See you soon!

[recorded webinar] How to use CTO.ai's open-source SDKs to create customizable Workflows for software delivery

biagotaski — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 21:09:01 +0000

Hi devs!

Thank you for attending the webinar yesterday!

If you are interested in watching the recording of the webinar, you can see it through this link.

In fact, you can see the recording for all past webinars at CTO.ai by this page in the website.

If there are any questions about the concepts and the Developer Control Plane from this presentation, feel free to reach out to me through my LinkedIn or email.

See you soon!

Today, let's talk about using SDKs to enhance developer's workflows

biagotaski — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:58:35 +0000

Hi devs!

This afternoon (4 PM EST) I will host another webinar at CTO.ai, and I'll talk about How to use CTO.ai’s open-source SDKs to create customizable Workflows for software delivery.

Come join me and let's discuss the topics in the agenda:

✅ What workflows stand for
✅ What are the open-source SDKs available to get started
✅ How to use them (examples of usage in a real-life environment)
✅ How can these SDKs integrate with third-party tools for product delivery?
✅ Using SDKs to calculate DORA metrics in your project
✅ Q&A

You can still subscribe here.

See you there :D

See how to customize a developer workflow using SDKs and a Developer Control Plane [upcoming webinar]

biagotaski — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:50:56 +0000

Hi devs!

Next week I'll be hosting a webinar to talk about How to use CTO.ai’s open-source SDKs to create customizable Workflows for software delivery.

You can learn how to create personalized dev's workflow using the SDKs with the Developer Control Plane, which I'm going to show you on the presentation.

Here's what's in the agenda:

Join me at this webinar!

It's scheduled to happen next week, March 22nd, at 4 PM EST.
You can subscribe using this link.

See you there! :)

Join us for our upcoming webinar!

biagotaski — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 19:30:48 +0000

Hi, devs!

First of all, Happy International Women's Day!

I am here to invite you to join me at the next webinar I'm hosting for CTO.ai, where I'll talk about How to use CTO.ai’s open-source SDKs to create customizable Workflows for software delivery.

At this talk, I'll approach some subjects like:

Workflows for developers
Open-source SDKs to build a customizable delivery' platform for developers to use.

Here's the agenda:

It's a webinar 30 min long, plus a Q&A at the end so we can chat and discuss doubts that might come up along with the presentation.

You can subscribe through the website: https://cto.ai/webinars or directly through this link.

See you there! :)

[Hands-On!] Create a customizable developer workflow

biagotaski — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 23:38:45 +0000

Hi devs!

Happy new year and I hope you all had great holidays!
Let's start the year with a fresh new Hand-On session, where you can learn how to create a customizable developer workflow, using a Developer Control Plane, developed by CTO.ai.

Here's the agenda:

✅ Understand the concepts of Commands, Pipelines, and Services and how does it apply to the Developer Control Plane;
✅ Create workflows from zero to hero
✅ Customize a workflow to deploy from GitHub, Slack, or CLI
✅ Using deployment data to calculate and measure delivery performance
✅ Other case scenarios: rollback of services and secrets + configs management
✅ Open source workflows to get started

That's a good opportunity to learn about the Platform and how it can benefit your daily work with tools that you already use!

It's going to be 30 min of Hands-On + QA, on January 31st at 3:30 PM EST.

You can subscribe here.

Join us and I will see you there! :)

Webinar coming up!

biagotaski — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 23:55:38 +0000

Hey devs!

I'm just passing by to invite you all to my very first webinar at CTO.ai, which I'll talk about How a Composable Developer Platform Simplifies Ops for Devs.

What's in the agenda:

✅ DevX
✅ What is a composable Developer Platform?
✅ Use cases for a Developer Control Plane
✅ Workflows and metrics for performance
✅ Infrastructure Architecture analysis
✅ Demo

It's scheduled for next Thursday (Dec 15th) at 3 pm EST.

Join me at this webinar! You can subscribe here.

See you there! :)

Use these SDKs to improve devs experience on workflows

biagotaski — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:39:20 +0000

Hi there!

Developers experience should be important as any other concept as it promote good experience on tools for developers so their performance and productivity can increase significantly.

To help companies on that mission, we have four differente SDKs, where each one is for the well-kwnown languages our there, which are:

JavaScript
Python
Go
Bash

So what can you do with these SDKs?

These SDKs are for those who use YML file for their workflows and want to display more information for developers during build and deploy phases, whether they trigger these workflows from Slack or via terminal.

Some methods can be used such as:

sdk.track() -> to track events
ux.print() -> if you want to display some message during the workflow execution for developers that are using Slack
sdk.start() -> initialize a remote workflow available in a current team

Note that all these SDKs works better when the Developer Control Plane is being used together, so all the information contained in the Control Plane will be presented for developers who are interacting with it.

You can try out the Developer Control Plane for free here.
And you can reach out to me or our team if you have any questions.

Happy Friday and happy code!

[recorded webinar] Improving DevOps team performance using DORA metrics with GitHub

biagotaski — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 22:48:13 +0000

Hey devs!

Last week we opened an webinar about Improving DevOps team performance using DORA metrics with GitHub and if you didn't have a chance to attend you can still watch the recording here:

https://go.cto.ai/dora-metrics-webinar-recording-nov-3

Join our slack to post your questions and chat with us!
https://join.slack.com/t/ops-community/shared_invite/zt-1jc16m4qq-iZyuiKMTjhxmqmPAsE_X2Q

Happy Monday!

[Upcoming webinar] Improving DevOps Team Performance using DORA Metrics with GitHub

biagotaski — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 21:26:47 +0000

Hey devs!

DevOps teams knows the importance of implementing metrics and understand the team's performance. If you are seeking to learn how to implement a good strategy in your processes to increase the performance of your team, you cannot miss this webinar!

Justin Malcolm will talk about the usage of DORA metrics along with GitHub to enhance the performance of DevOps teams. Here's the synopsis of this webinar:

The DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) has been surveying the DevOps industry for several years and, in their annual State of DevOps report, outlined key metrics known as the DORA Metrics.
To effectively assess your organization's software delivery's velocity, quality and reliability, DORA metrics can be the guiding light for teams aiming for high performance.
CTO.ai supports its customers in measuring and collecting DORA metrics using the platform’s Insights dashboard, which allows teams to quickly get started using their current GitHub organization and existing Cloud processes.

In this webinar, we'll review:

What are DORA metrics, and why should you use them
Benefits of measuring team delivery performance
Getting started with DORA Metrics on CTO.ai
Q&A

The duration is 45 minutes + Q&A, and it's happening this week (November 3rd) at 3 PM EST.

You can subscribe here!

Let's meet there :)

Build your own Kubernetes infrastructure with just a few minutes

biagotaski — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:10:40 +0000

Hi, devs!

At CTO.ai, we know that most startups need help to scale faster in operations and software infrastructure to handle multiple requests and keep the application up at a lower cost.

If your team has decided to go for Kubernetes already, we have an open-source repository you can try to build an infrastructure on your own using DigitalOcean.

Here are the technologies used on the code that can help you scale quickly:

Infra based on Kubernetes
Container Registry
Postgres
Spaces
Load Balancers SSL (via LetsEncrypt)
Project Resource Management all build using CDKTF
Terraform Cloud
TypeScript

It also includes integration with CTO.ai's Developer Control Plane, that focus on the developer experience. In that way, you can build infrastructure using tools you are familiar with, such as Slack and CLI.

With the Developer Control Plane, you can deliver features using these most common tools and preview the application after each deployment. You can test it before going live in a production environment.

Click here to go to the GitHub repository.

Feel free to collaborate with our open-source code as well! We'll be glad to have your expertise and feedback on the code we've been building from developers to developers :)