#67: Kubernetes v1.25

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📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

Kubernetes version 1.25 – everything you should know
This blog will focus on the highlighted changes from each special interest group (SIG) in the new release and ensure you are confident before upgrading your clusters.
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"Git’s database internals" - This post explores Git commit history as a database where ‘git log’ is the query language. Learn about Git’s custom query index – the commit-graph file – and how to make sure it's enabled in your repositories - Read more »

"50% off our AWS bill — What six months of studying our bill taught me" - You should be able to exercise some of this knowledge in terms of starting your own cost savings efforts, based on our experiences depicted in this essay - Read more »

"AWS Serverless with Monorepos" - Learn how to build and deploy a facial recognition application using serverless functions in AWS. Along the way, you'll discover the Serverless Application Model, Lambda testing, and optimizing monorepo CI/CD. - Read more »

"Using incidents to level up your teams" - When I encountered an incident, I was introduced to new technologies, learned new skills and met people who became some of my closest friends. And every time, I’d come out as a better engineer; I accelerated my career by running towards the fire - Read more »

"CAP or no CAP?" - The CAP theorem might be the most misunderstood idea in computer science. If you’re looking to understand the CAP theorem through a series of examples, you’re in the right place - Read more »

"10 performance optimization tips I learned after rebuilding two course landing pages" - Few tips to optimize your landing page response time, including: images preloading, scripts hierarchy, continuous measurement, etc - Read more »

"Understanding Google’s File System" - Google File System (GFS), a system that provided the storage layer for many of Google’s applications in the company’s early days. The original implementation has reportedly been replaced by a newer version called Colossus, but reading about the original approach was still illuminating - Read more »

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🛠 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK

Pike is an open-source tool, to determine the minimum permissions required to run a TF/IAC run. Pike currently supports Terraform and can support multiple providers - Read more »

Comply is a SOC2-focused compliance automation tool. It comes with a policy generator for publishing auditor-friendly policy documents as well an integration with your existing ticketing system to automate compliance through the year - Read more »

Zinc is a search engine that does full text indexing. It is a lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch and runs using a fraction of the resources. It is very simple and easy to operate as opposed to Elasticsearch which requires a couple dozen knobs to understand and tune which you can get up and running in 2 minutes - Read more »

AutoHotkey is "Powerful. Easy to learn. The ultimate automation scripting language for Windows.". This project tries to bring large parts of that to Linux. You can use AHK_X11 to create stand-alone binaries with no dependencies, including full functionality like Hotkeys and GUIs. (just like on Windows) - Read more »

The OWASP Kubernetes Top 10 is aimed at helping security practitioners, system administrators, and software developers prioritize risks around the Kubernetes ecosystem. The Top Ten is a prioritized list of these risks backed by data collected from organizations varying in maturity and complexity - Read more »

Kluctl is the missing glue that puts together your (and any third-party) deployments into one large declarative Kubernetes deployment, while making it fully manageable (deploy, diff, prune, delete, ...) via one unified command line interface - Read more »

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