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AWS IAM Roles Types - Service Role vs Service-Linked Role - Comparison
A clear video on understanding the difference between a service role and a service-linked role on AWS. A service-linked role is pre-created by AWS and cannot be modified.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/using-service-linked-roles.html
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Did you know that this service previously was AWS SSO? If you need to integrate AWS with Active Directory or federated access this is the place to go.
AWS re:Invent 2019: Access control confidence: Right access to the right things (SEC316-R1)
As your organization builds on AWS, granting developers and applications the right access to the right resources at the right time for the right actions is critical to security.
Using AWS Single Sign-on to Integrate with Azure Active Directory
Announcing AWS Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension
It lets your Lambda functions more easily retrieve parameters and secrets from the Systems Manager Parameter Store and Secrets Manager in a performant, low-latency and cheap way.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/10/aws-parameters-secrets-lambda-extension/
Query Routing and Rewrite: Introducing pgbouncer-rr for Amazon Redshift and PostgreSQL
pgbouncer-rr is based on pgbouncer but it adds query introspection with Python so you can route queries to different servers and re-write queries. It could be used, for instance, to split reads and writes when an application cannot be modified. It supports transactions too.
More Database, Analytics Workloads Ran on Kubernetes in 2022
The percentage of organizations running databases on Kubernetes leapt 26 percentage points in 2022 compared to last year, according to a new survey by the Data on Kubernetes (DoK) Community.
https://thenewstack.io/more-database-analytics-workloads-ran-on-kubernetes-in-2022/
https://dok.community/data-on-kubernetes-2022-report/
Linux TUN Network Driver May See A "1000x Speedup" With New, One-Line Patch
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-TUN-Driver-1000x
The Linux Kernel May Finally Phase Out Intel i486 CPU Support
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-i486-Linux-Possible-Drop
Azure Adds Sustainability Guidance to Well-Architected Framework
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced new technical guidance within the Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF) to help customers and partners achieve their sustainability goals.
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/10/azure-sustainability-waf/
A first look at Rust in the 6.1 kernel
Linux 6.1 kernel ships with Rust support for the writing of kernel modules. This article shows you an example of a Rust module shipping with the 6.1 kernel.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/910762/0ebbdbf4b6f481d3/
The HTTP crash course nobody asked for
A very long tutorial on HTTP, TLS and some examples in Rust.
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/the-http-crash-course-nobody-asked-for
Google Unveils The New Open-Source KataOS
KataOS is a new secure OS written in Rust.
https://www.opensourceforu.com/2022/10/google-unveils-the-new-open-source-kataos/
KubeConf North America
October 23-28 in Detroit.
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/
How DoorDash Governs Its Infrastructure with Open Policy Agent
They use Open Policy Agent to derive business logic from policy logic.
https://thenewstack.io/how-doordash-governs-its-infrastructure-with-open-policy-agent/
3 Metrics to Optimize Continuous Integration Pipelines
https://www.runforesight.com/blog/3-metrics-to-optimize-continuous-integration-pipelines
An introduction to using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store with Terraform
https://www.davehall.com.au/blog/2022/10/19/tracking-infrastructure-with-ssm-and-terraform/
CFP open for PDX 2023
The Call for Participation (CFP) for next year’s Monitorama PDX 2023 event is officially open!
https://blog.monitorama.com/cfp-open-for-pdx-2023-9bc1f73f51c4
leap.nvim
Leap is a general-purpose motion plugin for Neovim, with the ultimate goal of establishing a new standard interface for moving around in the visible area in Vim-like modal editors.
https://github.com/ggandor/leap.nvim
Kill Bill
Open-Source Subscription Billing & Payments Platform
https://github.com/killbill/killbill
https://killbill.io/
Postgres Full-Text Search vs the rest
https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-full-text-search-vs-the-rest
FrankenPHP
A PHP server that is written in Go.
Why we're leaving the cloud
From the creator of Ruby on Rails.
https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0
sqlite3vfshttp
A Go SQLite VFS for querying databases over HTTP(S).
https://github.com/psanford/sqlite3vfshttp
Moving From React to htmx
https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/
Server Side Apply Is Great And You Should Be Using It
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/10/20/advanced-server-side-apply/
Introducing Kueue
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/10/04/introducing-kueue/
SQLite for Secrecy Management - Tools and Methods
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/sqlite-secrecy-management-tools-and-methods
Orchestrating Data/ML Workflows at Scale With Netflix Maestro
Netflix writes about Maestro, a workflow orchestrator that can schedule and manage workflows at a massive scale.
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