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Okta got hacked
What is even worse is that Cloudflare and Beyond Trust discovered the hack.
https://twitter.com/mattjay/status/1716870499458822418
Streaming SQL in Data Mesh
Netflix's Data Mesh SQL Processor simplifies stream processing with a flexible, SQL-based approach, overcoming challenges posed by custom Flink Processors and reducing system overhead.
https://netflixtechblog.com/streaming-sql-in-data-mesh-0d83f5a00d08
How to be on-call
An insightful article offering strategies for managing on-call duties, exploring the difficulties of on-call responsibilities, and presenting measures both individuals and teams can implement to alleviate the stress associated with it.
https://hart-michael.medium.com/how-to-be-on-call-034e3a202729
PromCon Recap: Prometheus Ecosystem Updates
Recent updates from the PromCon conference brought to light advancements in Prometheus, alongside news on OpenObservability.
https://logz.io/blog/promcon-prometheus-ecosystem-updates/
Why Building a Platform May Not Be Your Best Bet—Exploring Five Critical Reasons
This article articulates the complexities and strategic missteps associated with building an internal developer platform (IDP) in-house. Focusing on five key reasons, it highlights how such a venture can misallocate resources, extend time to market, and incur significant costs, ultimately suggesting that commercial platforms might offer a more viable solution. The piece encourages organizations to consider the operational, financial, and strategic dimensions before deciding and introduces Choreo by WSO2 as an alternative commercial platform that could streamline development processes.
Certi: Your Python-Based SSL Transparency Log Monitoring Tool
Certi is a comprehensive SSL certificate monitoring utility crafted in Python that facilitates the tracking of SSL certificate issuance and the maintenance of certificate security. This tutorial delves into the fundamental principles of certificate logs, investigates the functionalities of Certi, scrutinizes its underlying components and architecture, acknowledges its constraints, and reviews the notification services it accommodates. Additionally, it offers a detailed walkthrough for installing the tool and administering it through its REST API, enabling vigilant SSL certificate management to foster a secure web presence.
Elon Musk JUST UNVEILED NEW Generation AI Robots To Complete His MASTERPLAN!
Red Hat Launches Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed with IBM watsonx
Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage
Cloudflare experienced an outage starting on November 2, 2023, affecting its control plane and analytics services, which include the customer interface and logging/reporting features. The disruption began at 11:43 UTC and lasted until November 4 at 04:25 UTC. The control plane was partially restored by 17:57 UTC on November 2 using a disaster recovery facility, minimizing impact on most products, but some services remained affected for the duration. Cloudflare's network and security services operated normally during this period, although customers were unable to modify these services for some time. The outage was due to a catastrophic failure at a core data center provider and was exacerbated by certain non-obvious dependencies in Cloudflare's systems. The company has apologized for the outage and is making changes to prevent similar incidents in the future.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-on-cloudflare-control-plane-and-analytics-outage/
Ansible VMWare v4.0.0
v4.0.0 has been released and has some breaking changes.
https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.vmware/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst#v4-0-0
MySQL October 2023 GA Releases Now Available
https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/post/mysql-october-ga-releases-now-available
New Kid On The Block: authentication_webauthn in MySQL 8.2.0
https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/post/new-kid-on-the-block-authenticationwebauthn
Backup your MySQL instance to the Cloud
https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/post/backup-your-mysql-instance-to-the-cloud
How to deploy WordPress and MySQL on OKE using MySQL Operator for Kubernetes
Demo: Querying 100TB TPC-DS dataset across MySQL and data lake with HeatWave Lakehouse
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