#70: Control your K8s from a Spreadsheet

📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

Cache your CORS, for performance & profit
CORS is a necessity for many APIs, but basic configurations can create a huge number of extra requests, slowing down every browser API client, and sending unnecessary traffic to your backend.
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"Learning Serverless (and why it is hard)" - When most people look for tutorials or definitive guides, finding the really good information on serverless is, unfortunately, far too difficult a lot of the time - Read more »

"Fixing the UX for one-time tasks on Kubernetes" - The blog post author wanted to run a container for a customer only once, but the UX just wasn't simple enough. So he created a new OSS utility with Go and the Kubernetes API - Read more »

"Choosing a database for Serverless applications" - This post will cover how to choose a database for your serverless application. With serverless applications, there are new elements to consider as compared to traditional, instance-based architectures - Read more »

"Hierarchical Kubernetes namespaces explained by example" - Namespaces are a critical resource for supporting multi-tenant architectures for a Kubernetes cluster, yet they are hard to manage when working with multi-tenant clusters at scale - Read more »

"AWS vs GCP reliability is wildly different" - After encountering some reliability issues with on-demand provisioning of GPU resources on Google Cloud, the author put together a benchmarking harness to test AWS vs. GCP availability - Read more »

"Securing Cloud Infrastructure with Teleport and AWS Identity Federation" - Learn about the 5 advantages of using Teleport to centralize AWS access control - Read more »

🛠 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK

xlskubectl integrates Google Spreadsheet with Kubernetes.You can finally administer your cluster from the same spreadsheet that you use to track your expenses - Read more »

"GitOps at Scale" is a free course that teaches how to model GitOps environments, handle multi-cluster management and much much more! - Read more »

Aviator is a suite of tools to avoid broken builds, manage stacked PRs, simplify cumbersome merge processes and suppress flaky tests. Put your mundane, frustrating workflows on autopilot - Read more »

Template for sending a GitHub webhook over a zero trust, private network based on OpenZiti - Read more »

📕 BOOK OF THE WEEK

This is pure gold. If you ever have to read one book on self help and personal development, this should be the one.

I first learned about Naval a couple of years ago as the founder of AngelList and have been following him closely on Twitter ever since. His podcasts with Tim Ferriss, Joe Rogan as well as his own podcast (nav.al) are chock-full of wisdom, and this book brings together all of these insights ✨

🎧 PODCAST/WEBINAR OF THE WEEK

You can learn everything you need to know to earn the Azure Developer Certification by completing this free 13-hour video. The video covers multiple ways of deploying web apps to Azure, a deep dive into Azure Functions and Application Integration services, and lots of hands-on with Azure CLI and SDKs.

💼 OPEN JOBS OF THE WEEK

Software Engineer @Docker
AWS, Go, Docker
🌎 Remote, Europe
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Senior Engineering Manager @Webflow
AWS, Kubernetes, Python
🌎 Remote, Americas
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DevOps Engineering Manager @HackerRank
AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
🌎 Remote, India
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Hand-picked DevOps opportunities to work from home, remotely, freelance, full-time, part-time, contract and internships - Read more »

🌎 EVENTS OF THE WEEK

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🐦 TWEET OF THE WEEK