Digest #116: Scalability Testing on Amazon EKS 🧪

#116: Scalability Testing on Amazon EKS

Welcome back to your most-awaited DevOps roundup 👋🏻

As we kick things off this week, we find ourselves exploring strategies to optimize the performance of DynamoDB by leveraging SQS to throttle writes, offering you a comprehensive guide to ensure efficiency and cost-effectiveness in your operations. Terraform enthusiasts have a reason to celebrate as we explore the all-new Check Block feature and delving into the AWS SAM's official support for Terraform.

Dive deep into a fascinating case study where Vercel utilized Amazon EventBridge Scheduler to ship cron jobs in just two months. As we benchmark Bun & Node on AWS Lambda, learn the nitty-gritty to help you make informed decisions for your serverless applications.

Kubernetes aficionados, gear up as we share first-hand learnings from deploying a whopping 10K+ Argo CD apps across 97 different clusters. Get an inside scoop from a pioneer SRE hire recounting the ups and dows, and key takeaways from their journey.

Cloud cost management is becoming a pivotal concern at the board level. AWS remains a beast in the cloud space; we answer the all-important question - when to opt for AWS!

It's that time again - open-source projects of the week are here! From deploying web apps anywhere with zero downtime to introducing a copilot for your terminal, we have a lineup that promises to add value and versatility to your DevOps workflow.

And that's just the beginning. There's a lot more to uncover in this week's digest. Enjoy the read!

📖 TUTORIALS OF THE WEEK
"Using SQS to throttle writes to DynamoDB" - How to make sure a DynamoDB table write capacity isn't exceeded - Read more »
"Understanding the Terraform Check Block feature" - Dive into one of Terraform's most recent features to leverage infrastructure validation - Read more »
"Nine ways to lose data using Serverless without even knowing it" - Without knowing the internal workings of the services, you could easily lose the data - Read more »
"How Vercel shipped cron jobs in 2 months using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler" - How Vercel handles 7 million weekly cron invocations - Read more »
"AWS SAM support for HashiCorp Terraform" - AWS is announcing the general availability of Terraform support in AWS SAM - Read more »
"Serverless Bun vs Node - Benchmarking Bun & Node on AWS Lambda - Read more »
"Argo CD application controller scalability testing on Amazon EKS" - Learnings of deploying 10K+ Argo CD apps to 97 remote clusters - Read more »
"Container image scanning with Dockle in AWS CDK" - How to use Dockle to perform security checks on Docker images - Read more »
"Static IP for Lambda: ingress, egress and bypassing the dreaded NAT Gateway" - How to overcome vendors requirement of static IP address - Read more »
"Bringing transparency and control to cloud spending" - How companies have lost control over their cloud costs, how it has become a C-suite and board-level issue - Read more »
🛠 PROJECTS OF THE WEEK
1️⃣ From bare metal to cloud VMs, deploy web apps anywhere with zero downtime - Learn more »
2️⃣ Terraform automation for teams. Purpose-built for GitHub - Learn more »
3️⃣ Resolve production issues, fast with an open source observability platform - Learn more »
4️⃣ A copilot for your terminal - Learn more »
5️⃣ Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework - Learn more »
6️⃣ Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style - Learn more »
📰 NEWSWORTHY STORIES
"Being the first SRE" - Read more »
"AWS IPv4 estate now worth $4.5 billion" - Read more »
"Inside new query engine of MongoDB" - Read more »
"Why is logging so damn hard?" - Read more »
💡 THREAD OF THE WEEK
😂 MEMES OF THE WEEK
For the lazy: https://http.cat/418
Hand-picked DevOps opportunities to work from home, remotely, freelance, full-time, part-time, contract and internships - See more »
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