(maven) Help with Spring Version and pom.xml ?



Hello!

I am not sure if any of you could help me with this but :
I have almost 0 knowledge in Java and Spring. However I am trying to make a build through maven and my pom.xml file is showing the following error:

Downloading: *https://maven.springframework.org/milestone/org/springframework/roo/org.springframework.roo.annotations/1.0.2.RELEASE/org.springframework.roo.annotations-1.0.2.RELEASE.pom*
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BUILD FAILED

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The link is not accessible as well since it's 403 forbidden.

Here is the full pom.xml file:

https://pastebin.com/L1bfYb7d (sorry it's not formatted well thanks to pastebin).

Can some one help me with this? I am not really sure what exactly to look for and where to put in the xml file.

Thank you for your time!

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If you could automate one part of your role to that you could work less hours, what part of your role would you automate?

For me, it would be deployments. What’s yours?

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Where can I expand on my python scripting and Ansible skills for DevOps?

2-3 weeks ago I was lurking around and saw people mention learning APIs, boto3 and Ansible. So I started playing around and made a couple of simple APIs (One to retrieve weather data and one for stock data). I used boto3 to create a lambda function for the application, sent some of that data to a DynamoDB table, ran a query on the DynamoDB table and parsed the data for certain items with a simple loop in python.

With Ansible I learned how to install and configure prometheus and grafana and have the playbook run with my terraform build.

This all feels very basic and low-level and I'm curious on what other tasks/concepts I should learn how to do with Ansible, APIs, and Python scripting in general.

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Fellow unemployed SREs/DevOps Engineers, what projects are you working on at the moment to stay busy? How do you keep yourself motivated to learn new things?

See title. Trying to keep busy and trying to figure out what projects I can work on. Love working with K8s, Python, and would like to learn Golang. Any ideas?

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Does anyone have a link with a comprehensive list of advantages both to using cloud and on-premise in a company?

It doesn't have to be direct comparison or anything fancy, but I would love to see what I am missing or if there are advantages to one(or both) of them that I am not aware of.

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DevOps book recommendations

Yesterday i found 2 boons (DevOps Handbook, Practical DevOps). Has anyone read those two and can recommend them, or are there better picks?
Thanks in advance

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What metrics do you measure at your organization?

The obvious most will say is the DORA metrics. However, are there other metrics your organization measures to identify the effectiveness of DevOps at your company? I’m also curious how you track these other metrics that makes them useful?

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API Layer solutions?

We're looking at API layer solutions to expose data stored in a database. What API Layer solutions is everyone using to build and document restful APIs?


TIA.

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How you manage your gitlab runners

Hey folks! Just wanted to know, how you manage yout gitlab runners? I'm looking for "the best" solution, in other words - we have plenty of different teams, each of the team with their own gitlab group/projects and infra things - and I want to make sure that one team does not have an access ot the other team's infra; we have infra things in AWS and I want to make sure that least privilege will be done using IAM role but wondering here how many instances of gitlab runners shall I use? or should I run them in EKS or EC2? maybe one EC2 runner will be enough and creating different IAM roles for different team's that this runner will assume is enough? or maybe create EKS cluster and place many runners, separate pod for each team.. I read quite a few blogs/docs and I don't know the correct process, just to make sure that in the future the maintenance/debug process will be quite straightforward..

Thanks for sharing and all the answers :)

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Moving Local Machine Learning Experiments to the Cloud with Terraform Provider Iterative (TPI)

Training a machine learning model locally is quick & easy to set up a new project on a local machine. This is sufficient for simple experiments (with reduced data subsets or small models) without paying to rent heavy cloud compute resources. A local machine is also deeply familiar — as opposed to the multitude of available cloud services, which can be intimidating even with a decent background in DevOps.

Once you locally set up and iterate over your data & code enough, you may reach a point where more powerful compute resources are needed to train a larger model and/or use bigger datasets with a methodology explained in the following guide: Moving Local Experiments to the Cloud with Terraform Provider Iterative (TPI)

If you have to switch from experimenting locally to a cloud environment. If you find yourself in this situation, this tutorial will help you easily provision cloud infrastructure with Terraform and run your existing training script on it.

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Interesting research topic for DevOps newbies

Hey guys,

I'm currently helping a few interns at my company learn the ropes of the job.

I've made a mini-course for them and some of them are really good so I thought about slowing them down by giving them something to research.

What are some exciting DevOps topics to let them research? (they'll mainly be working with containers, automation (Ansible, cicd, etc..), and Kubernetes at their job so I prefer a topic close to those areas)

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Software Engineer to DevOps Engineer

I'm currently at year 3 of my career as a software engineer and been considering transitioning to other areas of tech. I started looking into DevOps more because of my curiosity of learning Golang and it seems to be a more interesting specialization within tech, with less code intensive and more solution oriented tasks, is this correct? Anyone made a similar transition and can tell me how is your routine now at work? What kind of job you do? What is that you like more about it? What made you go through with this career change?

Thank you in advance for any help

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devops programming languages / how to further my devops career

I've been a sysadmin for 20+ years and through my current job have learned some devops skillsets like terraform, cicd azure devops and aws cloudformation etc. However were mostly just doing security or engineering stuff these days and not too much devops as we have dedicated cloud engineers.

Since ive come from a sys admin / engineering background i dont have much programming knowledge, id like to learn more about programming and devops.

Looking for suggestions to what I can lear to further my devops skills. Such as languages I can learn that could be helpful for my devops career as well as help with my current sysadmin job.

Python has interested me but not sure how much ill actually use it in a devops role. Thinking maybe its best to just upskill in terraform more or learn something like kubernetes although its a bit tough as we dont really get to play with these at work

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Thoughts on moving from senior management back to an individual contributor? Can this move be done without going "backwards"?

Posting here, since I think it's the closest programming related sub that matches my experience, but happy to take suggestions on other places to ask.

I've been in a financial services company for the majority of my career. About half the time as an individual contributor, the other half as a Director/VP.

I'm currently responsible for a significant portion of the cloud strategy. AWS, networking therein, Dev(Sec)Ops, the works. While my role is classified as senior management, I don't shy away from supporting the team when it comes to getting your hands dirty with an advanced technical problem. I (still) know my stuff.

I'm growing weary of the role though. There's a lot of disfunction in the organization, and I spend more time solving organizational issues than technical ones. And while it's been my ability to solve both technical and organizational issues effectively that's gotten me to where I am now, I get little satisfaction from the latter.

Some days I feel like I would be happier just jumping back into an individual contributor role and making the best of the infrastructure, architecture, automation, and other such skills.

I'd love to hear stories from anyone else who's found themselves in a similar position. How'd it go? What was the reaction from your next employer? Did you stick to the individual contributor role, or did old habits kick in and land you back in management anyways? And of course, one of the most burning questions on my mind... what happened with compensation?

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How we deploy to production over 100 times a day

Hello, I work for Monzo. We have embraced the devops philosophy for deploying software, which I think is fairly unusual for a bank! This has allowed us to maintain a rapid per-engineer release cadence despite a significant increase in headcount.

So I thought it would be interesting to share some details on our engineering culture as well as tooling and architecture that allows us to achieve this.

https://monzo.com/blog/2022/05/16/how-we-deploy-to-production-over-100-times-a-day


I'm happy to answer any questions!

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CloudFront vs Fastly

CDN pricing is among the most complex I've seen. It looks like Fastly does better if your workload is a lot of small requests but CloudFront does better if you have higher bandwidth or longer lived edge functions. https://www.vantage.sh/blog/cloudfront-fastly-cdn-comparison

Curious what others' experiences have been like?

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Good questions for a "Devops Manager" position

Looking for good questions for a "Devops manager" role.

Our org has dedicated "devops engineers" who manage the CI\\CD pipeline & SRE responsibilities on a per team basis. Some teams have more than one engineer depending on the # of services they support, devops engineers are part of a scrum team and their work shows in JIRA along with the development work for the same team. We are 100% cloud based, mostly in AWS 100% IaC (Terraform). Most of our work is pretty standard websites or web services along with a decent amount of EMR.

Looking for open ended questions to ask our candidates.

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Site Live & Hosted Elsewhere - But, Need WP Staging Site

Hi,

Our initial website was created with React and it's hosted through AWS. Every edit is sent through our dev team overseas. We want to give our design/copy team access to a CMS (wordpress) to make quick edits.

We're trying to draft/stage a WP website and wondering the best way to do this. It seems like we have to buy a new domain, hosting, and download wordpress in order to start creating a staging site. Eventually, we'll redirect our true domain to wordpress, but we want to have a website fully designed before doing this.

Any ideas on best practice here?

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Devops for a non dev shoP?

So, I work for a shop that has 0 dev presence. We don't write anything above scripts for specific tasks, which are already stored in Git and fully tested via a drone pipeline.

We're primarily a Windows shop, with a very minimal Linux and container footprint.

I'm wondering on the best way to introduce more Devops mindset into an environment such as this. We've already moved to using things like Packer for our image builds, but would love to transistion over to Terraform if possible. In addition, using things like Ansible for VM deploment/Network Deployment/etc are on my short list. But I feel there has to be 'more' than that, as those are things I could do just as easily with Powershell native.

Thoughts?

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Expectations from a Principal Software Engineer (DevOps)

The following job advert for a "Principal Software Engineer (DevOps)" appears to have a high degree of technical skills that are required. Is this realistically what the industry expects or is the employer/recruiter casting a very wide net and hoping to find a candidate that closely matches the skillset?

**Culture fit is everything here, although you will need strong technical experience as well in:**


* Using the right tools are essentials to DevOps practices, the DevOps engineer should understand and have some knowledge on a variety of tools. Ideally have some experience in following toolchain :
* Project and Product planning tools ( e.g., JIRA, Confluence )
* Build and hosting technologies ( e.g., Kubernetes, Docker )
* Infrastructure as Code tool s ( e.g., Cross Plane, Terraform , CloudFormation, Azure Resource Template )
* Source code control tools (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket )
* CI/CD pipeline tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS (Amazon Web Service) CloudFormation + AWS Code Pipeline, Azure DevOps, Bitris e )
* Observability tools (e.g., Splunk )
* Continuous Feedback tools (e.g., ServiceNow, JIRA service management, InstaBug )
* Expert in at least 1 to 2 programming languages below:
* Back-end runtime : C# .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Golang.
* Scripting language : YAML, JavaScript, Shell script
* Command-line interface : Unix, PowerShell, AWS cli, vi, vim
* Front -end : ReactJS, Angular
* Mobile : iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin)
* Databases : SQL DB (SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Aurora) and NoSQL DB (DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, Snowflake, Google Big Query)
* Automated testing frameworks : Module based, library architecture, Data Driven, Keyword Drive, Behaviour Driven.
* Expert and enterprise experience in modern application design patterns:
* REST API services
* Containers services
* Serverless application
* Deep knowledge and understanding of different hosting pattern covering IaaS (Infrastructure as a service), CaaS (Container as a Services) , PaaS (Platform as a Service), SaaS (Software as a service)
* Enterprise e xperience in at least one of the following cloud hosting platforms:
* AWS cloud – desirable
* Microsoft Azure
* Google Cloud Platform
* Excellent communication and collaboration skills and experience working in a matrix organisation structure, previous experience working under Spotify model or similar agile framework is highly desirable
* You are passionate about keeping up to date with the latest technology

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I'm currently in the process of screening tests for devops bootcamp but I'm afraid it will negatively affect me in the long term

so here's a TLDR:

I've been studying programming for a few months looking forward to start applying soon after I finish Data structures and algos together with a few resume projects but now a GF's friend is an HR in a Devops bootcamp so I can get in for free and they give a job at the end of it if I pass 2 tests in the middle of the bootcamp (currently im on the 3rd out of 4 screening exams for the bootcamp itself)

But im afraid it might damage my software career in the long term since I will be doing devops for some time instead of pure software engineering.

However it might be even easier to land a coding job in the future with all this experience anyway if i'm not mistaken.

I'd like to hear some advice from you guys

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