I rarely share videos here, but it's Friday, so it's fine. Also, this video provides some food for thoughts.
This is a reaction video, if you wish, to an interview with Pieter Levels on the Lex Fridman podcast. I don't link the whole podcast episode here, because it's long, and it's also linked to the video I'm sharing.
You can think whatever you want about Lex and his podcast specifically, but here is what's interesting about this particular quest: he's running several websites that allegedly bring him $3M a year, and all of these websites are hosted on a single DigitalOcean server that costs $400. All these websites are created with PHP and JQuery.
We need to address an elephant in the room here: he does use 3rd party vendors to do some heavy-lifting for his projects, but many "startups" that have much more complex technical stacks do that as well.
I'm not arguing that this is the way to go for everyone, but still an interesting thing to think about.
#architecture #video
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For today’s Donations Monday, I would like to share with you an initiative from Come Back Alive - “Dronefall”.
Instead of a monetary goal, this project aims to strike down 1000 russian reconnaissance drones.
#donations #Ukraine
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Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
Ich möchte gerne Ihren eine neue Cloud Alternative vorstellen.
European alternative to AWS, Azure and Google was born inside Lidl
P.S. АТБ Cloud: when?
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The Senior Engineer Illusion: What I Thought vs. What I Learned is an article about one could have regarding the day-to-day routine of their more senior colleagues.
Ofc, many things may sound familiar to you personally, but never forget that there are less experienced peers in the industry for whom this information may be useful.
P.S. I didn't like some word choices of this article, but overall it's Ok.
#culture
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I skipped the newsletter today, because there were not that many posts on the channel, TBH.
So, as an apology, here is a brief reminder from Google on why heroism is bad.
#culture
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Amazing Julia Evans posts about the things she missed in Go.
This is kinda a promotion of the book "100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them" and you know what, now I want to read it!
P.S. Unfortunately, I don't have a chance to write much in Go lately, which makes me sad. Maybe, it will push me towards creating some side-projects, probably, someday, maybe 😭
#programming #golang
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Karpenter (Kubernetes nodes autoscaler by AWS) goes version 1.0 today.
Notable changes are listed in the announcement.
#kubernetes
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UA DevOps channel continues raising funds for a Mavik drone for the folks on the Kharkiv direction.
Link to the Monobank Jar: https://send.monobank.ua/jar/2WC8C4npTN
Original post in the channel: /channel/devops4ua/566
#donations #Ukraine
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A small Saturday post from GetYourGuide on how they migrated from Spinnaker to ArgoCD.
There are not too many details in the article, so the main takeaway is that such migrations can be easier than they seem to be. Still, you need a political will to do that.
P.S. This article came from our chat. If you have other interesting stories to share, you can do it here.
#cicd
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OpenTofu 1.8.0 is out.
It's not like I'm following this project very closely. However, now its features started to diverge from Terraform. So, as they put it themselves:
Since Terraform doesn't support these new language features, OpenTofu now supports the .tofu file extension. When a file with the .tofu extension is present, OpenTofu will ignore the identically named .tf file. Using this new file extension, module authors can use the new
features of OpenTofu and still keep older code around for compatibility.
So, if you support any open-source modules, have fun, I guess.
Also, it's interesting how many of you actually use OpenTofu in production?
#terraform #opentofu
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For today's Donations Monday I have not one but two requests.
1. Folks from the Airbus VYK channel continuously raising funds for drones and related equipment. Subscribe to the channel to see recent fundraisers and detailed reports.
2. Our colleague and an author of the UA DevOps channel is raising funds for a Mavik 3T drone
#donations #Ukraine
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Yet another explainer of what has happened to CrowdStrike on July 19th and more importantly, how.
tl;dr: config changes. Config changes can be dangerous too. Despite there were successful deploys between the update of CrowdStrike Scanner and the outage, it seems like a new type of config was deployed which caused the entire clusterfuck.
This line is also interesting:
June 4th, Red Hat released a KB relating to kernel panics that were caused by the Crowdstrike sensor
process. This was a bug in the Linux kernel itself, that the sensor was
triggering and wasn’t Crowdstrike’s fault. However it does prove that config that has passed the Content Validator can cause kernel panics.
UPD: I think the most important take-away here is not
what caused the outage or
how the deployment process at CrowdStrike looks like. It's the fact that problems can be obscure enough. When something goes wrong big times, it's easy to "blame" a "big thing": the whole deployment process, or code quality, or people behind the software. This is much more comforting than the idea that
any small change can cause a butterfly-effect and take your whole system down. This was true for CrowdStrike and this
is true for you as well.
#postmortem #crowdstrike #windows
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UkrOps continues raising funds for the Skelyar platoon.
Right now, about a half of the goal is accumulated.
🔗Monobank Jar
https://send.monobank.ua/jar/6k2H9iu8tN
💳 Card number
5375411219683781
A link to the original message:
/channel/UkropsDigest/636
#donations #Ukraine
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Today is the Sysadmin’s day. My congratulations to everyone involved!
In an episode about SRE with Denys Vasyliev there was a point that SRE is just a glorified OPS.
So, I think this ongoing book would be appropriate for today:
Reliability Engineering Mindset.
It’s ongoing and, apparently, you can subscribe to get updates.
#sysadmin #sre #books
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Today I want to share with you some preparation materials for certifications:
- By Sybex Comptia
- By Packt
Also, till the end of July you can get Linux Foundation certificates with a discount!
And last but not least, some Rust books recommendations as a bonus.
#books
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Since I’m a bit busy this week, I cannot really bring too many articles to you this week.
Every time this happens, Humble Bundle comes to my rescue :D
So, today I want to share a bundle of courses about cloud by Packt.
You can get it for a bit more than $20 for the next 11 days.
#courses
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Some people know that I'm not a fan of Python. Yet, I have to tolerate it because it is objectively one of the most popular and widespread programming languages.
So, here is an article about asynchronous code in Python.
Enjoy!
#programming #python
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A very nice collection of books on software architecture by O’Reilly.
As usual, you can pay different amount to unlock various number of books.
#books
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Happy Independence Day, cats!
As you know, freedom never comes for free. So, the best way to celebrate this day is to make a donation to your charity of choice.
Here the list of charities I link to almost every post
Also, I would like to remind you about fundraisers from our friends at:
- UkrOps Club
- UA DevOps
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A fundraiser for equipment for FPV drones by the UkrOps community is still ongoing!
About 40% still left.
You can top up a Monobank jar:
https://send.monobank.ua/jar/6k2H9iu8tN
Or a card directly:
5375411219683781
Original post
#donations #Ukraine
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We have made the VictoriaLogs stack for storing logs and the main goal will be to collect logs from k8s.
At the moment the product is ready and shows itself very well (does not require resources, compresses data very well)
https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/
Among the features - supports many protocols for data insertion (including native syslog, promtail (and all variations of this name), elasticsearch, examples of how to write through standard log shippers).
VictoriaLogs has visualisation in Grafana and its own UI + query langues, which allows you to basically do whatever you want with logs (filtering analytics slide/dice).
We plan to release the cluster and officially announce that everything is ready on Kubecon NA this fall.
The Roadmap: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victorialogs/roadmap/
As for important things: cluster support for s3, alerting and operator (now only helm chart is available).
We'll be glad to get feedback at our telegram community @ or at https://slack.victoriametrics.com
The code is here - https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/tree/master/app/victoria-logs (monorepo for VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaLogs)
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The Story of Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2012 is a short story of rolling a massive change at Google.
Basically, they have enforced formatting rules for all the BUILD files for Bazel.
What I like in this story is how this change ended up being uneventful. Which confirms a point: if formatter is integrated into your workflow, you don't care about formatting, you don't even think about it much.
And this is one of the reasons I like Go so much: it has a formatter integrated into the language itself. Same thing with Terraform.
#culture
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A bit of Ukrainian tech community building.
Recently, our friend from UkrOps Digest asked his subscribers if they have any Telegram/YouTube channels, blogs, or other communities where they share their technical expertise.
Needless to say that there are quite a few responses to that post. I'm sure you'll be able to find something to your taste there as well!
Also, if you have a channel or a blog, make sure to leave a comment there as well. Or even better - make a pull request to the Awesome List of Ukrainian IT Communities!
#community #culture #Ukraine
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The wrong way to use DORA Metrics.
If you’re not aware, so-called DORA metrics are the core metrics DevOps report is built on:
- Deployment frequency
- Lead time for changes
- Change failure rate
- Time to restore service
- Reliability
These metrics are frequently used to measure the performance of a team. So, this article highlights some pitfalls of using DORA metrics for measuring productivity, including, of course, the good old Campbell’s Law.
#culture
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CatOps is more than 7 years old. I hope during this time many of you have got promotions!
Perhaps, some of you have even switched to the management track. Thus, I think this article about 10 common ways engineering managers get stuck may be interesting to you.
Also, it’s written in a peak Internet content form: a numbered list! Items on the list are:
1. Ignoring destructive behaviors
2. Trying to please everyone
3. Fighting too hard for your principles
4. Not spending time building relationships
5. Defining your role too narrowly
6. Forgetting your manager is a human being
7. Neglecting Personal Development
8. Only managing down
9. Only managing up
10. Never managing up
A description of each item is in the article.
#management
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Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub
Sounds scary, if you didn't deep dive into how git works and how GitHub hosts it.
TL;DR: If some repo can git fetch upstream - all these fetchable commits will be always accessible from this fork/main repo.
Only after the visibility of the repo changes - new commits will be not discoverable.
For more details and examples, check this article, which was brought to us from CatOps Chat.
#security #git #github
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Today's donation Monday is more IT-related than ever.
NGO Aerorozvidka makes and supports many interesting stuff for the Defense Forces of Ukraine, starting from IT solutions (like DELTA), through ISTAR, to Robotics technologies.
You can choose which direction to support on aerorozvidka.ngo/donate-page or just pop-up their Monobank.
And not so long ago they celebrated their 10th anniversary.
#donations #Ukraine
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