Platforms Thoughtworks Technology Radar 47. IAM Roles Anywhere Assess IAM Roles Anywhere is a new service from AWS that lets you obtain temporary security credentials in IAM for workloads such as servers, containers and applications that run outside of AWS. We find it particularly useful in hybrid cloud setups where workloads are split across AWS and non-AWS resources. Instead of creating long-lived credentials, with IAM Roles Anywhere you can now create short-lived credentials to access AWS resources using X.509 certificates. We believe this approach streamlines the access pattern across the hybrid cloud and recommend you check it out. 48. Keptn Assess Keptn is a control plane for delivery and operations that relies on CloudEvents for instrumentation. Like one of the techniques we mentioned in observability for CI/CD pipelines, Keptn visualizes its orchestration as traces. The declarative definition of the delivery pipeline aims to separate SRE intentions from the underlying implementation, relying on other observability, pipeline and deployment tooling to respond to the appropriate events. We’re particularly excited by the idea of adding service- level objective (SLO) verifications as architectural fitness functions to CI/CD pipelines: Keptn lets you define service-level indicators (SLIs) as key-value pairs, with the value representing the query to your observability infrastructure. It will then evaluate the result against the defined SLOs as a quality gate. Keptn takes the same approach to automated operations, allowing a declarative definition that specifies the intent of scaling a ReplicaSet in response to a degradation of average response time, for example. Created by Dynatrace, Keptn also integrates with Prometheus and Datadog. 49. OpenMetadata Assess Undoubtedly, data discoverability has become a very important focal point for companies since it’s an enabler for data to be shared and used efficiently by different people. We’ve included platforms such as DataHub and Collibra in previous editions of the Radar. However, our teams are constantly assessing options in this space and have recently shown interest in OpenMetadata, a platform dedicated to metadata management by using open standards. Our teams like this open-source platform because it improves the development experience due to its simple architecture, easy deployment with a focus on automation and strong focus on data discoverability. 50. OrioleDB Assess OrioleDB is a new storage engine for PostgreSQL. Our teams use PostgreSQL a lot, but its storage engine was originally designed for hard drives. Although there are several options to tune for modern hardware, it can be difficult and cumbersome to achieve optimal results. OrioleDB addresses these challenges by implementing a cloud-native storage engine with explicit support for solid-state drives (SSDs) and nonvolatile random-access memory (NVRAM). To try the new engine, first install the enhancement patches to the current table access methods and then install OrioleDB as a PostgreSQL extension. We believe OrioleDB has great potential to address several long-pending issues in PostgreSQL, and we encourage you to carefully assess it. © Thoughtworks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 26