CatOps Digest 2024-09-29
What was on CatOps in the last couple of weeks...
It’s getting colder outside, so it legitimately feels like autumn now. Also, you may have already forgotten about the thing that was the main topic just a couple of years ago - Covid. Yet, it didn’t disappear anywhere. I learned it the hard way this week, so stay healthy!
Charity
Drones and other equipment for the International Legion of Ukraine
Standing jar to cover ongoing requests from combatants, created by my German tutor.
Time Sensitive
Python Courses bundle on HumbleBundle - ends in just two days!
Cloud Solutions Architect courses bundle - ends tomorrow!
Digest
Pinterest on Web performance optimization:
AI agents invade observability: snake oil or the future of SRE? - some speculations on is it just hype or a real change in the industry
Microservices are Technical Debt - a video interview on YouTube with a principal engineer at DoorDash regarding the long-term outcomes of the microservice architecture
Future-proofing: How DoorDash Transitioned from a Code Monolith to a Microservice Architecture - an old article by DoorDash that is referenced in the video above
Grafana Beyla - a new eBPF-based observability tool
Noisy Neighbor Detection with eBPF - an article from Netflix on how eBPF observability is useful in the real world
Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I - a write-up about a new high severity vulnerability discovered in CUPS (printer subsystem)
That’s all for today! Stay safe!
