CatOps Digest 2024-10-20
What was on CatOps in the last couple of weeks...
This issue was supposed to be sent last week, but I was travelling. So, I skipped a week.
Charity
A permanent Monobank Jar from my German tutor, who’s also a volunteer and continuously helps the Armed Forces of Ukraine with various fundraisers.
Time Sensitive
Cybersecurity Month Mega Bundle from O'Reilly - a bundle of Cybersecurity books. You have just one day to buy it if you want it!
Digest
Heterogeneous SLI vs Homogeneous SLI - thoughts on types of metrics used as SLIs by Alex Ewerlöf.
SLO: Elastic vs Datadog vs Grafana - comparison between SLO offerings from different vendors.
Elasticsearch Reindex Change Field Type - how to change a filed in an ElasticSearch index without a downtime.
Humans do it better: GitClear analyzes 153M lines of code, finds risks of AI - an interesting study on the impact of AI tools on the code quality in recent years.
Kubernetes Pi Cluster release v1.9 - a new release of Kubernetes distribution for RaspberryPi. The curious thing about this release is their motivation to move away from ArgoCD towards FluxCD.
6 Reasons You Don't Need an SRE Team - a great article about the culture of reliability and why one cannot patch it with a single team.
Oncall: An Equal-Opportunity Waste of Time - a complimentary article about the SRE culture.
Withmarble - an interesting yet raw project on learning computer science basics with flash cards.
Kubernetes on a High Traffic Environment: 3 Key Takeaways - tips on running high-load Web applications in Kubernetes.
Beyond Round Robin: Load Balancing for Latency - comparison of load balancing algorithms under heavy load by Linkerd.
LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem - a collection of evidences that “artificial intelligence” is currently rather an autocomplete on steroids. This article also describes methods that are used to test AI models.
Сursor | Як нічого не робити | Artificial Idleness - нова категорія "нічогонероблення" з AI - a video by Den on a new AI-powered text editor - Cursor (in Ukrainian).
Cursor - a new hot AI-powered text editor. What’s interesting is that some companies allegedly force their employees to use it on a daily basis.
That’s all for today, folks! Let me know in the comments, if you use Cursor or any other AI tools in your daily routine and what do you think about them!
