CatOps Digest 2024-08-11
What was on CatOps in the last couple of weeks...
Charity
Our friends from UkrOps are raising funds for the Skelyar platoon. Link to the original post (in Ukrainian). Monobank jar: https://send.monobank.ua/jar/6k2H9iu8tN
Airbus VYK Telegram channel constantly posts important fundraisers for drones as well as detailed reports for the money they’ve spent.
Another friend of the channel - UA DevOps - is raising funds for a Mavik 3T drone for the Kharkiv direction.
Community Building
Seva from UkrOps has asked his subscribers about Telegram / YouTube channels that they have. There is quite a list in the comments to the original post (in Ukrainian).
Also, I’d like to remind you about the Awesome Ukrainian IT Communities repository on GitHub. If you know a great community, or you own one - do not hesitate to add it there!
Digest
10 common ways engineering managers get stuck - a list of pitfalls an engineering manager can encounter in their career.
Inside Crowdstrike's Deployment Process - yet another explainer of what happened during the Crowdstrike outage and why did it happen.
The wrong way to use DORA Metrics - measuring DORA metrics in your organization is important. Still, there are ways to do it wrong. This article is about that.
OpenTofu 1.8.0 is out with Early Evaluation, Provider Mocking, and a Coder-Friendly Future - a new release of OpenTofu that has feature divergence from Terraform. Still, a majority of my subscribers use Terraform in their day-to-day work:
The Story of Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2012 - a story of a major refactoring at Google.
Lessons Learned from Migrating to ArgoCD - a story of a CD tool migration at Get Your Guide.
That’s all for today, folks! I wish you a great week ahead!
