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SaaS-based secret management
A new Vault platform which is multi cloud.
Terraform Cloud Adds Drift Detection for Infrastructure Management
Tarraform cloud adds drift detection.
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-cloud-adds-drift-detection-for-infrastructure-management
Drift Detection: An Introduction
https://www.seldon.io/drift-detection-an-introduction
Announcing the HCP Waypoint Private Beta Program
The HCP Waypoint Private Beta Program allows select early adopters to onboard applications and try out HCP Waypoint to develop a proof of concept.
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-the-hcp-waypoint-private-beta-program
Efficiently iterating over rows in a Pandas DataFrame
An interesting post on how to iterate over a Pandas dataframe and its performance implications:
https://towardsdatascience.com/efficiently-iterating-over-rows-in-a-pandas-dataframe-7dd5f9992c01
Microsoft Launches New Storage Optimized VMs
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/06/azure-storage-optimized-vms/
Cockroach Labs 2022 Cloud Report: AMD Outperforms Intel
Anotother article showing how AMD is outperforming Intel-besed processors.
Cisco Unfurls Observability Cloud for Kubernetes Environments
At its Cisco Live! event this week, Cisco added an AppDynamics Cloud observability service that is optimized for microservices-based applications constructed using containers. It also supports Oopen Telemetry.
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN OPEN SOURCE DATABASE AND DATABASE BUSINESS
Ahana provides a commercial solution to run PrestoDB. Read to know more about datawarehouses and datalakehouses (which is what PrestoDB with storage is).
Why Is Everyone Ignoring the Day 2 Kubernetes Problem?
An article on the ops headaches to solve when running a Kubernetes cluster.
https://thenewstack.io/why-is-everyone-ignoring-the-day-2-kubernetes-problem/
ARMO: Misconfiguration Is Number 1 Kubernetes Security Risk
The maker of an open source Kubernetes security platform, has released the results of a study that indicates that misconfiguration is the biggest issue when it comes to Kubernetes security.
https://thenewstack.io/armo-misconfiguration-is-number-1-kubernetes-security-risk/
Neon previews serverless PostgreSQL database service
A new provider of PostgreSQL as serverless DBMS.
They also have their solution open source on Github.
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon
Traefik Labs, HashiCorp Make Cloud-Native Apps More Accessible
Traefik Labs this week announced it has integrated its namkesake open source proxy software with the open source Nomad container orchestration platform created by HashiCorp.
https://containerjournal.com/features/traefik-labs-hashicorp-make-cloud-native-apps-more-accessible/
Linus Torvalds: Rust For The Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged For Linux 5.20
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Rust-For-Linux-5.20-Possible
Linux fu: dockeing made easy
https://hackaday.com/2022/06/21/linux-fu-docking-made-easy/
And the Dock project.
https://github.com/0rion3/dock
Securing serverless data from cryptomining malware like Denonia
https://venturebeat.com/2022/06/21/securing-serverless-data-from-cryptomining-malware-like-denonia/
Fermyon wants to reinvent the way programmers develop microservices
Ex Microsoft employees have founded a new startup to help developers to develop microservices. The solution sounds a lot like serverless and it is using web assembly, which reminds me Cloudflare workers.
Citus 11 for Postgres goes fully open source, with query from any node
I really like this one. Citus is one of the best distributed PostgreSQL solutions and now all the enterprise features are in the open source version.
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2022/06/17/citus-11-goes-fully-open-source/
PostgreSQL 14.4 Released
There are 15 but fixes and some improvements.
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-144-released-2470/
Should You Take a Job at AWS?
I think Corey has a few good points regarding working at AWS.
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/should-you-take-a-job-at-aws/
Public Travis CI Logs (Still) Expose Users to Cyber Attacks
Travis was a pioneer in the CI world, I really like it but it seems it is not doing well at the moment.
https://blog.aquasec.com/travis-ci-security?ck_subscriber_id=1774100931
Use IAM Permission Boundaries with AWS SSO using Terraform
https://mckinnel.me/iam-permission-boundaries-with-aws-sso-using-terraform.html
Malicious Cyber Actors Continue to Exploit Log4Shell in VMware Horizon Systems
Remote development with Rust on fly.io
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/remote-development-with-rust-on-fly-io
Anaconda Acquires PythonAnywhere to Expand Python Team Collaboration in the Cloud
https://www.anaconda.com/press/anaconda-acquires-pythonanywhere
https://www.pythonanywhere.com/
Tailscale SSH Launches in Beta to Replace SSH Keys
https://thenewstack.io/tailscale-ssh-launches-in-beta-to-replace-ssh-keys/
Tailscale gives each server and user device its own identity and node key for authenticating and encrypting the Tailscale network connection and uses access control lists defined in code for authorizing connections, making it a natural extension for Tailscale to now manage access for SSH connections in your network.
From the creator of Wireguard, Create a secure network between your servers, computers, and cloud instances. Even when separated by firewalls or subnets, Tailscale just works.
Tailscale SSH is a continuation of Tailscale. Tailscale allows connecting seamlessly to servers for different locations and Tailscale SSH is managing the access to these servers using node keys for each user. It’s basically seamless connectivity thanks to Wireguard VPN and secure and each SSH access. I think it can remove a lot of friction.
Continuous Operations is the Unsung Hero of DevOps
A refresher of continuous operations and its future, written by an employee of Puppet Labs.
https://thenewstack.io/continuous-operations-is-the-unsung-hero-of-devops/
Infrastructure SaaS - a control plane first architecture
https://docs.thenile.dev/blog/infrastructure-saas
Next-gen Nvidia GPU leak sparks worries over RTX 4070
It’s underlined that the RTX 4090 could be even more of a beast than expected.
https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/next-gen-nvidia-gpu-leak-sparks-worries-over-rtx-4070
Serverless Usage Not Popular in Workplaces, Survey Reports
https://thenewstack.io/serverless-usage-not-popular-in-workplaces-digitalocean-survey-reports/
Italy says stop to the use of Google analytics
https://www.gpdp.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/9782874
Deno raises $21M
Deno, a new JavaScript engine raises $12 millions.
https://deno.com/blog/series-a
AWS Mainframe Modernization in GA
https://aws.amazon.com/mainframe-modernization/
Uber on monorepos
https://eng.uber.com/how-we-halved-go-monorepo-ci-build-time/
Viddy
A new watch replecement.
https://github.com/sachaos/viddy
wolfSSL Golang Wrapper
A lightweight TLS library (wrapper) for golang.
https://www.wolfssl.com/wolfssl-golang-wrapper/
Diagram as Code
Make diagrams with Python.
https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/
Ratchet
Ratchet is a tool for improving the security of CI/CD workflows by automating the process of pinning and unpinning upstream versions. It's like Bundler, Cargo, Go modules, NPM, Pip, or Yarn, but for CI/CD workflows. By Seth Vargo.
https://github.com/sethvargo/ratchet
AWS EMEA Summit Online on 29 June 2022
https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/online/emea/
How We Rebuilt the dbt Cloud Scheduler
https://www.getdbt.com/blog/rebuilding-dbt-scheduler/
The State of Data Engineering 2022
https://lakefs.io/the-state-of-data-engineering-2022/
Service-aligned Data Platform Architecture
https://canvatechblog.com/service-aligned-data-platform-architecture-6b5a6fc366c4
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