#84: DevOps Stories to Start Fresh in the New Year

Well, that's a wrap for 2022, I truly appreciate your trust and really grateful for your support. I hope that the content I've curated has been useful to you. As the new year begins, I wish you all the best. I look forward to the possibilities of 2023 and sharing them all with you 🎉

This week's newsletter highlights how to avoid merge conflicts while working on a Severless application, building a multi-region AWS application based on latency, best practices for resolving incidents, why you shouldn't debug your Serverless apps, top Kubectl plugins to have installed, 12 factor app framework revisted, serving RESTful APIs from Postgres database, scanning S3 objects for malware and viruses, an insightful discussion with Gene Kim, author of The Phoenix Project and more.

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📖 POSTS OF THE WEEK

Organize your AWS Serverless code to prevent merge conflicts
How do you prevent the most common merge conflicts when your team is working on a Serverless application? How do you make sure that your team stays productive and avoids large merge issues while trying to update the same crucial files simultaneously? - Find the answer in this blog post.
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"Building an application that routes traffic to a Region based on Latency" - A hands-on demo on how to create a multi-region application and route your users to different regions based on the latency - Read more »

"Best practices for observability" - This blog post is focusing on the process of actually resolving an incident, making a case for using hypothesis-driven techniques and providing some suggestions on how it can be implemented in your organisation - Read more »

"The truth about debugging Serverless applications" - With serverless and cloud-based development, debugging is inevitably harder (at least in the traditional sense) - Read more »

"12 Factor App revisited" - The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a methodology for building software-as-a-service applications. This post covers how they have since evolved, and what we can learn from them today and how they changed the status quo of yesteryear - Read more »

"The top 5 kubectl plugins" - Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestrator. However, the real power of Kubernetes is the ability to expand it's core functionality. This blog post will serve as an introduction to the five most popular kubectl plugins - Read more »

"Materialized view: SQL queries on steroids" - Materialized views can become a great resource and lead to significant performance increases if used appropriately. But if they are misused, they can lead to stale data and refresh bottleneck - Read more »

"The state of HTTP in 2022" - So what happened at all of those working group meetings, specification documents, and side events in 2022? What are implementers and deployers of the web’s protocol doing? And what’s coming next? - Read more »

"Raspberry Pi security alarm — the basics" - A cool side project to kick off the new year: building a DIY security alarm system using a Raspberry PI as the controller - Read more »

"Building a website like it's 1999... in 2022" - not a DevOps related topic but it brings back good memories of Internet - Read more »

🛠 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK

PostgREST serves a fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL database. It provides a cleaner, more standards-compliant, faster API than you are likely to write from scratch - Learn more »

This proof of concept provides a simple implementation of an anti-malware scanning solution that can be used to scan files being uploaded into target S3 bucket(s) for any malware or virus - Learn more »

PRQL is a modern language for transforming data — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement. Like SQL, it's readable, explicit and declarative - Learn more »

This repository provides a working, deployable, open source based, AWS Lambda handler and CDK Python code. This handler embodies Serverless best practices and has all the bells and whistles for a proper production ready handler - Learn more »

Kubernetes-native workflow automation platform for complex, mission-critical data and ML processes at scale. It has been battle-tested at Lyft, Spotify, Freenome, and others and is truly open-source - Learn more »

This repository has the source code for Comprehensive Rust, a four day Rust course developed by the Android team. The course covers all aspects of Rust, from basic syntax to generics and error handling - Learn more »

📰 NEWSWORTHY STORIES

"Big Tech under pressure from cost-conscious cloud customers" - Read more »

"Serverless and on the edge: IT’s 2023 directions mapped out" - Read more »

"DevOps global market to reach $20.53 billion by 2026 at a CAGR of 23.08%" - Read more »

📕 BOOK OF THE WEEK

A great book to start the year strong! Before he replaced Jon Stewart as the host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah had a difficult childhood in both Apartheid and post-Apartheid South Africa. Having a white father and a black mother, Trevor was already the product of racist laws that could have kept him and his parents imprisoned for several years.
This is a must read if you want to learn about the South African culture through the life of an outsider who found himself always on the inside.

🎧 PODCAST/WEBINAR OF THE WEEK

In this episode Corey Quinn (Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group) and Gene Kim (Author of the Phoenix Project, the Unicorn Project and the DevOps Handbook) discuss the DevOps community impact on the future, revisit some parts of Gene's books and more.

💼 OPEN JOBS OF THE WEEK

DevOps Engineer @Nash
AWS, Kubernetes, GitLab
🌎 Remote, Asia
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DevOps Engineer @Bitquery
AWS, Jenkins, Terraform
🌎 Remote, anywhere
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Security Engineer (Cloud) @Alchemy
AWS, Ansible, Vault
🌎 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

Do you love automation, SDLC and moving at speed? Do you discuss rapid delivery with friends on a Friday night? Do you care about delivering quality software? Come and join a community of 5000+ people at Conf42.com - Register now

NDC London 2023 is a 5-day event for software developers. It offers a combination of deep-dive workshops and 60-minute conference sessions - Register now

CloudNativeSecurityCon is a two-day event designed to foster collaboration, discussion and knowledge sharing of cloud native security projects and how to best use these to address security challenges and opportunities - Register now

🐦 QUESTION OF THE WEEK