CatOps Digest 2022-10-23
What happened on CatOps in the last two weeks...
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Next Thursday, the 25th of October, there will be a HashiCorp User Group Kyiv Meetup.
First, Vsevolod Polyakov - an SRE engineer @ Let's Enhance, a founder of UkrOps Club, and an author of UkropsDigest Telegram channel will talk about how to test (and not to test) the Terraform code.
Next, Oleksiy Kraevy - a Senior DevOps engineer @ YayPay - will talk about how to combine Helm charts and Terraform. TBH, I’m pretty intrigued regarding this one.
Language: Ukrainian.
Other Important Stuff
Perhaps, the biggest thing that happened in these two weeks was that I released the recording of our conversation with Oleks Maistrenko. Oleks is a co-host of the famous DOU Podcast and a host of “Going Beyond Development” podcast about the engineering management (also under the DOU umbrella).
We’ve talked about engineering management, what types of manager are out there, how can one become a manager, and even more important, what makes one a good manager.
You can listen for it right here, if you haven’t already.
You can also find it:
On YouTube (with just a static image)
Enjoy!
Now, the Digest
A comparison between VictoriaMetrics and Grafana Mimir - a benchmark of the two by the VictoriaMetrics team. View on Telegram.
How we scaled our new Prometheus TSDB Grafana Mimir to 1 billion active series - an inspiration for the benchmark listed above. View on Telegram.
The Future of Ops Is Platform Engineering - a blog post by Charity Majors about the differences between [Dev]Ops engineers and Platform engineers. View on Telegram.
Why Cloud Finance Is Broken and Ineffective - why architecture is the primary driver of the infrastructure costs. View on Telegram.
The Key to Unlock the AWS Billing Puzzle is Architecture - a kind of complementary article to the previous one. View on Telegram.
The C4 model for visualising software architecture - The C4 model is an easy to learn, developer friendly approach to software architecture diagramming. View on Telegram.
Structurizr - a tool that implements diagrams as code. It’s more powerful than Mermaid but doesn’t work in the plain Markdown.
Aaand, see you next time!
