CatOps Digest 2024-02-23
What was on CatOps in the last couple of weeks...
Charity
A fundraiser by Come Back Alive for the telecommunications equipment.
My friend from university has a standing jar for car repairments in his unit.
Digest
There were a couple of posts abut the talks at FOSDEM, but you can read my whole overview here on Substack or in my blog.
AI Safety report by AI Action Summit, UK. Brought to you by the DeadOps Telegram channel.
PostgreSQL: AWS RDS Performance and monitoring - what to monitor in a PostgreSQL RDS and how to do that by RTFM! DevOps[at]UA.
How to add, use, and update `.terraform.lock.hcl` without pain - an old article that was recently translated to Ukrainian. The article is old, but it’s still actual today.
OSS Insight - shows stats for various Open Source projects, so you can quickly check their statistics.
The Theory Behind Understanding Failure - a great article that provides a viewpoint that any system has more than just a technical aspect of it, as well as any failure (incident) is not a single isolated event. It uses some known and less known examples to illustrate it.
"A calculator app? Anyone could make that." - a story of the Android’s calculator app that shows that building a calculator is not as trivial as it may seem.
The danger of overreaction - how good intentions of preventing incidents can make things worse.
You’re missing your near misses - why is it important to pay attention not only to the incidents themselves, but also to situations that nearly became incidents.
That’s all for now, folks. See you in a couple of weeks!
