Weekly news | 2023-12-27
news
- Amazon EKS introduces upgrade insights.
- otf (An open source alternative to Terraform Enterprise) archived on Dec 26, 2023.
- GitHub promotes LICENSE (if available) as a tab with the README in the UI.
tooling
- snk: generate a snake game from a GitHub user contributions graph
- gh-dash: a GitHub CLI extension to display a dashboard with PR and issues by filters
- Latacora (SecOps for hire) published recommended SCPs in Terraform.
- CNCF Incubating HeadLamp: A Kubernetes web UI that is fully-featured, user-friendly and extensible.
- GitHub Action to install GitHub Releases binaries.
- Neosync: Open source Test Data Management. HackerNews post.
- danswer: OpenSource Enterprise Question-Answering. Connects to tools like Slack, GitHub, Confluence, etc.
blogs
Some of the best blog posts and articles we've seen in 2023:
- A post on using open source LLM models, in particular focused on engineering for performance, including details of benchmarks and optimisation techniques.
- A detailed, technical, post on embracing eBPF for monitoring at the network layer and providing better control of a large microservice and infrastructure platform.
- A look at applying some of the DORA findings to improving incident management practices.
- Having a formal lead role for incident management is a common pattern. This post explains what that role should do, and why it’s important.
- A great post with tips for being on-call. Covering why on-call is hard, and what you and your team can do to make it suck less.
- A set of collected views on how generative AI can aid incident response. Lots of great observations and ideas, some of which will undoubtedly become features and products in the future.
- How InfoSec and risk management teams can support FinOps.
- Post on moving to Bazel, including local and remote instrumentation, parallel running and staggered rollout.
- Treating observability instrumentation as a first class part of software development.
- Second wave of devops tools. Some good observations here about what’s changed over the last 10+ years, and what hasn’t.
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