#64: Redis Explained

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🎧 PODCAST/WEBINAR OF THE WEEK

Leon Kuperman (CTO @ Cast.ai) explains the dilemma of locked-in cloud spend, cost planning strategies for SaaS orgs, how to minimize egregious cloud egress cost and drive better cloud utilization through consistent analysis & debates in your engineering organization 🏡

📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

Redis explained
A deep technical dive into all things Redis. Covering various Redis topologies, data persistence and process forking.
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"DIY: How to build a Kubernetes Policy Engine" - A hands-on tutorial on how to build a K8s policy engine with the help of K8s admission controller, Golang, cert-manager and ko! - Read more »

"How to create an Argo CD Plugin?" - A good example of how to improve Argo workflows and understand how the plugin functionality of ArgoCD works - Read more »

"Falling for Kubernetes" - Companies over complicate their architecture prematurely, which leads to headaches for engineers and instability for users - Read more »

"How to validate request body with Amazon API Gateway" - Learn how to validate request body or payload in AWS API Gateway - Read more »

"How SQLite helps you do ACID" - In order not to lose any of data when a transaction goes wrong, SQLite implements a journal. This post, will dive into rollback journal: what is it, how it works and when to use it - Read more »

"A SQLite extension for making HTTP requests" - sqlite-http is a new SQLite extension that allows you to create HTTP requests in SQLite - Read more »

"Kubernetes removals and major changes In 1.25" - Brace yourself for deprecated, removed or replaced features: including PodSecurityPolicy removal, GlusterFS and others - Read more »

📕 BOOK OF THE WEEK

The book goes into a good deal about Robert Iger's years, starting with ABC and ending with the CEO of the Walt Disney Company. It was easy to read and inspiring in a way as he describe his experiences, his visions, and lesson learned from those around him helped in his growth.
Even as an innovation geek who loves to read on creativity, Bob Iger's book was special in a multitude of ways 💯

🛠 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK

Odigos is an observability control plane - Start sending traces, metrics and logs to your favourite observability service (such as Datadog, Honeycomb, Grafana, etc) in a few clicks - Read more »

Flux is a tool for keeping Kubernetes clusters in sync with sources of configuration (like Git repositories), and automating updates to configuration when there is new code to deploy. Flux v2 is constructed with the GitOps Toolkit, a set of composable APIs and specialized tools for building Continuous Delivery on top of Kubernetes - Read more »

Retrieve the RBAC permissions of serviceAccounts, pods and nodes in a Kubernetes cluster, and evaluate them using policies written in Rego. The default policy library includes around 20 policies that identify serviceAccounts, pods and nodes that possess risky permissions, each detecting a different attack path - Read more »

This repository aims at automating the boring steps when trying to set up a Linux kernel debugging environment. All steps from building the kernel to running the kernel and attaching the debugger are transparently done inside Docker containers to keep system requirements minimal - Read more »

💼 OPEN JOBS OF THE WEEK