#74: AWS prices in your Google Sheets

📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

EKS Security Checklist: 10 best practices for a secure cluster
The best way to tighten your cluster security is to implement practices that have become industry standard and are recommended by the Kubernetes community. Here are 10 most EKS security tactics every team needs to protect its clusters.
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"Searchable Pod logs on Kubernetes in minutes" - Containers generate huge volumes of log data. In a production environment, SREs, DevOps folks need a central location to query and analyse these logs, to do their job well - Read more »

"Quirks, caveats, and gotchas In SQLite" - This document strives to highlight the principal differences between SQLite and other SQL implementations, as an aid to developers that are porting to or from SQLite or who are trying to build a system that works across multiple database engines - Read more »

"An easier way to install tools for GitHub Actions" - This blog post covers how to use Arkade in your GitHub Actions to get the typical kinds of tools you'll need to build code and run end-to-end tests - Read more »

"CloudFront vs Cloudflare, and how to reduce response times for both by ~35%+" - Turn on Origin Shield if you use CloudFront and care about response times, even for dynamic / uncacheable content - Read more »

"Leveraging mispriced AWS Spot Instances for fun and savings" - By looking at this mispricing, we can gain a better understanding of how Amazon is provisioning infrastructure under the hood, and save an average of 15% on existing spot prices when instances are mispriced - Read more »

"Solving common problems with Kubernetes" - This article is aimed at engineers who need to deploy their code using Kubernetes, but have no idea what Kubernetes is or how it works - Read more »

"State of CSS 2022" - Web styling features of today and tomorrow, as seen at Google IO 2022, plus some extras - Read more »

"Best practices for secure infrastructure access" - This whitepaper takes a deep look at the challenges posed by relying on a purely networking-based security policy, and how to reframe this problem in a realistic light - Read more »

🛠 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK

GlueSQL is a SQL database library written in Rust. Developers can choose to use GlueSQL to build their own SQL database, or as an embedded SQL database using the default storage engine - Read more »

ODD is an open-source data discovery and observability tool for data teams that helps to efficiently democratise data, power collaboration and reduce time on data discovery through modern user-friendly environment - Read more »

The AWS Pricing Google Sheets add-on allows you to incorporate the latest AWS pricing data in your spreadsheets. Perform cloud cost analysis directly in Sheets without error-prone copy-and-paste from pricing website - Read more »

Base image with just enough files to run static binaries. This image can be used with ko build, docker, etc, but is only suitable for running static binaries, such as with go build with CGO_ENABLED=0 - Read more »

📰 NEWSWORTHY STORIES

"Microsoft cuts about 1,000 jobs" - Read more »

"81% of companies had a cloud security incident in the last year" - Read more »

"AWS Lambda supports event filtering for Amazon MSK, Kafka and Amazon MQ" - Read more »

"SBOMs: an overhyped concept that won't secure your Software Supply Chain" - Read more »

📕 BOOK OF THE WEEK

Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices teaches you to automate infrastructure by applying changes in a codified manner. You’ll learn how to create, test, and deploy infrastructure components in a way that’s easy to scale and share across an entire organization. The book is full of flexible automation techniques that work whether you’re managing your personal projects or making live network changes across a large enterprise.

🎧 PODCAST/WEBINAR OF THE WEEK

Cloud services have been used by tech companies for many years, but it’s not the only way. Hear why 37signals is making the decision to go in another direction. David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of 37signals, and Eron Nicholson, Director of Operations, discuss why 37signals is making the move away from the cloud.

💼 OPEN JOBS OF THE WEEK

Software Engineer @Sticker Mule
Go, GraphQL, AWS
🌎 Remote, anywhere
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Senior DevOps Engineer @Kraken
AWS, Docker, Terraform
🌎 Remote, anywhere
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Senior DevOps Engineer @Calm
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
🌎 Remote, USA
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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

Building and scaling apps can get very complex, very quickly. At Deploy you'll learn, connect, and collaborate with devs and technical managers who understand the challenges of working with complex systems - Register now

Wey Wey Web is all about different technologies, best practices, and methodologies related to Web development. No matter if you are into Javascript, PHP, Python, WASM, Java or C#. If you are dealing with the User Interface, then THIS IS YOUR PLACE! - Register now

Are you the one being paged when systems go down? Have you had “aha!” moments when reading the SRE books? Do you focus on the security pipelines at work? Come, and share your experience at Conf42: DevSecOps - Register now

🐦 TWEET OF THE WEEK