#81: ChatGPT Extension for VSCode

This week's newsletter highlights CI/CD metrics, building a Minecraft dashboard in AWS, a complete guide to Jaeger, testing Serverless apps in AWS, building a chat app with Next.js, how to run CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins Windows agents, leveraging ChatGPT in VSCode, fine-tuning AWS Lambda performance with real events, analysis of Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) and more.
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Shifting left is key to avoiding security vulnerabilities. Protect your app during the development process with Guardsquare’s guide to the OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (MASVS) - Learn More

📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

3 metrics to optimize continuous integration pipelines
Which metrics should you monitor to optimize the performance of CI pipelines? This article highlights those key metrics including change failure rate, test coverage and more!
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"Testing Serverless applications on AWS" - This guide discusses methodologies for testing serverless applications, describes the challenges that you might encounter during testing, and introduces best practices - Read more »

"DIY Minecraft dashboard to manage your kids games" - This post outlines how to build a real-time Minecraft Server dashboard using AWS Amplify and AWS Appsync to cost-effectively manage Minecraft Servers deployed on EC2 instances - Read more »

"Running Workflows on windows with Jenkins pipeline and Kubernetes" - A tutorial on how to add windows worker nodes to your EKS cluster and then run windows workflows on the top of it - Read more »

"Building a full-stack chat application with AWS and NextJS" - A hands-on tutorial that showcase how to create a serverless, real-time backend that integrates with a frontend application - Read more »

"Bringing a product mindset into DevOps" - Adding a product mindset to DevOps capabilities is a key ingredient to finding this balance between desirability, viability and feasibility - Read more »

"9 surprises using AWS EventBridge scheduler" - This article serves as a discovery report, describing the good, the bad and recommendations when it comes to using this new Serverless scheduling managed service - Read more »

"A beginner’s guide to Jaeger" - Jaeger is an open-source distributed tracing system created by Uber. This guide covers everything you needed to know about Jaeger Tracing - Read more »

"SLSA dip — At the Source of the problem!" - This article is part of a series about the security of the software supply chain. Each article will be analyzing a component of the Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) model in depth, from the developer’s workstation all the way to the consumer side of the chain - Read more »

🛠 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK

A browser extension to display ChatGPT response alongside Google (and other search engines) results, supports Chrome/Edge/Firefox - Learn more »

GruCloud is a low/no-code infrastructure as a code tool. It can generate code from live infrastructure, and deploy resources to the cloud from code - Learn more »

This Visual Studio Code extension allows you to use the unofficial ChatGPT API to generate natural language responses from OpenAI's ChatGPT to your questions, right within the editor - Learn more »

Nova scans your cluster for installed Helm charts, then cross-checks them against all known Helm repositories. If it finds an updated version of the chart you're using, or notices your current version is deprecated, it will let you know - Learn more »

YATAT (Yet Another Testing & Auditing Solution) is a simple tool to audit your AWS infrastructure for misconfiguration or potential security issues with plugins integration - Learn more »

AWS Lambda Live Tuner tests memory configurations based on real incoming events instead of a single test event. Using different incoming events instead helps you test the actual behavior of the Lambda - Learn more »

📰 NEWSWORTHY STORIES

"Kubernetes v1.26: Electrifying" - Read more »

"Pentagon supply chain fails minimal standards for US National Security" - Read more »

"AWS has a low elasticity ceiling for big servers" - Read more »

"Electronic music icon Korg makes music with Raspberry Pi" - Read more »

📕 BOOK OF THE WEEK

This book distinguishes itself by providing clear examples of how OKRs help organizations achieve their full potential.
It condenses Andy Grove's epic managerial methods, and presents them to the reader. John Doerr explains the key elements of this managerial framework by citing how the framework works for Google (Both Larry/Sergey and Sundar Pichai), Nuna, Remind , Gates Foundation etc.

🎧 PODCAST/WEBINAR OF THE WEEK

Let's face it: when it comes to AWS, cost is one of the scariest topics! This episode of "AWS Bites" shares some suggestions and tools on how to approach cost when going to AWS. It's not a simple topic, but it's something you need to embrace, learn and get confident with. With a bit of effort, cost will not be so scary anymore and you'll be able to take advantage of all the awesome services and features of AWS without being so worried about cost!

💼 OPEN JOBS OF THE WEEK

Site Reliability Engineer @Axon
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
🌎 Remote, anywhere
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DevOps Engineer @Routeware
Azure, Jenkins, MySQL
🌎 Remote, anywhere
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Platform/DevOps Engineer @Spaceport
CI/CD, AWS, Postgres
🌎 Remote, anywhere
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Hand-picked DevOps opportunities to work from home, remotely, freelance, full-time, part-time, contract and internships - See more »

🌎 EVENTS OF THE WEEK

The DEVOPS Conference will return for the ninth time. This year's program will give you the chance to interact with your peers: fireside chats, workshops, open discussions, and more! - Register now

Civo Navigate is an in-person tech event packed with talks and workshops focused on navigating and succeeding within the cloud native landscape - Register now

🐦 TWEET OF THE WEEK

😂 MEMES OF THE WEEK

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