#60: Cross-Region Caching

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🎧 PODCAST/WEBINAR OF THE WEEK

Matt Butcher, Co-Founder & CEO @fermyontech talks about building the next-generation PaaS platform around WebAssembly. He also covers some of the unique capabilities and use-cases where WebAssembly can be a good fit 👀

📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

How we built a cross-region caching library
Wix handles huge traffic with more than 500 billion HTTP requests and 30 billion Kafka events messages daily with over 2500 microservices all across multiple data centers all over the globe. And these numbers continue to grow.
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"Managing Kubernetes without losing your cool" - The post start with 5 tips being applicable to anyone working with Kubernetes and can be picked up right away. From there, it moves to a couple that would benefit from having some old-skool Linux sys-admin experience. Finally, it covers some more advanced techniques that require some previous programming experience - Read more »

"Chaos Engineering at Expedia Group" - This blog post presents the framework that the team at Expedia built internally to run chaos experiments at scale. It also explores how it started, the challenges they faced, and the current offering - Read more »

"Build a Kubernetes Operator in 10 Minutes" - You’re probably familiar with Kubernetes, but do you know what operators are, how they work, and how to build one? It’s a complicated subject but fortunately, since their creation in 2016, many tools have been developed to simplify the life of engineers - Read more »

"How MongoDB brought its Serverless database service to the cloud" - Last month, MongoDB unveiled a new "serverless" option for its MongoDB Atlas database service. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at how they made this happen - Read more »

"Postgres indexing: when does BRIN win?" - The PostgreSQL BRIN index is a specialized index for (as the documentation says) "handling very large tables in which certain columns have some natural correlation with their physical location within the table" - Read more »

"A crash course on Terraform" - Ramp up on Terraform in minutes via a lightning quick, hands-on crash course where you learn by doing - Read more »

"The DynamoDB paper" - At USENIX ATC'22, the AWS DynamoDB team presented their paper Amazon DynamoDB. This paper is a rare look at a real-world distributed system that runs at massive scale - Read more »

📕 BOOK OF THE WEEK

Ryan does an outstanding job of laying out countless examples throughout history of those who have let their egos destroy their lives and those who have been able to check their egos and instead transform their lives. This book makes you reflect on your own life and thinks of habits that you have that you didn’t know even exist.
Got a ton out of this one. Especially the section on failure and the chapter on maintaining your own scorecard ☑️

🛠 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK

When deploying to Kubernetes, it's common for pipelines to build and push images to a cluster, but it's much less common for these images to be cleaned up. This can lead to accumulating bloat on the disk, and a host of vulnerable images lingering on the nodes. Eraser helps Kubernetes admins remove a list of non-running images from all Kubernetes nodes in a cluster - Read more »

k8tz is a kubernetes admission controller and a CLI tool to inject timezones into Pods and CronJobs. Containers do not inherit timezones from host machines and have only accessed to the clock from the kernel. The default timezone for most images is UTC, yet it is not guaranteed and may be different from container to container - Read more »

Handy Groovy scripts for Jenkins and CloudBees Jenkins platform. The scripts in this repository can be run in Jenkins script console: Manage Jenkins > Script Console. Most work on any Jenkins Enterprise instance, while some are specific to CloudBees Jenkins Operations Center (CJOC) - Read more »

Serverless Plugin for easily defining IAM roles per function via the use of iamRoleStatements at the function level. The plugin will create a dedicated role for each function that has an iamRoleStatements definition. It will include the permissions for create and write to CloudWatch logs, stream events and if VPC is defined: AWSLambdaVPCAccessExecutionRole will be included - Read more »

Vulnscan is a suite of reporting and analysis tools built on top of anchore's syft utility (to create software bills of material) and grype utility (to scan those SBOMs for vulnerabilities). This suite is designed to be run on a kubernetes cluster, and scan all running containers. Once scanned and the vulnerability list has been generated (and stored in a local postgres database), a web UI is available to report on your containers, SBOMs and scanned vulnerabilities - Read more »

💼 OPEN JOBS OF THE WEEK