CatOps Digest 2023-08-27

What happened on CatOps in the last two weeks…

Sup!

This weekend I spent on the kayak tour. So, this digest comes out a little bit later than usual.

Charity

• My wife is raising funds for 18 complete medical kits for the 27th battalion of the 67th brigade of the AFU. The monetary goal is 150 000 UAH (~3700 EUR). Currently, a bit more than 2/3 is there. You can donate on the monobank jar or to the card directly: 5375 4112 0823 3556

• Another place to donate for medical equipment is the UA Responders foundation

Time Sensitive

• 7 days left until the Microsoft Certification Bundle is available on Humble Bundle!

Voice Chat

Finally, I finished editing a new episode of our voice chat. This time we spoke about observability: vendors, problems that we encountered, SLO/SLA, and synthetic monitoring.

The recording is available in Ukrainian. You can „watch“ it on YouTube:

Or listen on:

• Substack

• Spotify

• Apple Podcasts

• Google Podcasts

Digest

• Avoiding Pitfalls in Go. - a good collection of tips for Go developers and those who just start learning this language. View on Telegram.

• Trigger a GitHub Action Pipeline with a Comment. - I wrote an article on how to use GitHub comments as trigger events for Actions and how to make good UX for this approach. View on Telegram.

• Go’s Extended Concurrency: Semaphores (Part 1) - limiting concurrency in Go applications. View on Telegram.

• Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking - TLDR: "try to understand why it was done in this way, before trying to abolish or replace it with something else. Otherwise, it can get worse than it was“. View on Telegram.

• Why We Are Not Supporting OpenTF - some arguments by Dragondrop Cloud on why OpenTF is a bad idea. View on Telegram.

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That‘s all, folks! See y‘all in a couple of weeks. If you want to get the posts as they go, subscribe to my Telegram channel!

A sunken boat in Spreewald