CatOps Digest 2024-11-24
I've missed one week again, I'm sorry...
Charity
A friend of mine is raising funds for their relative in AFU. This money goes to FPV drones and other equipment.
A fundraiser by DOU is complete by now, so feel free to donate to the Kolo Foundation that collaborates with DOU a lot.
Donate to the Captain’s Training school, organized by the Come Back Alive foundation.
Time Sensitive
Digest
We’re leaving Kubernetes - a story by Gitpod with an explanation of why Kubernetes didn’t suit them. They have a very niche use-case, though.
Kubernetes and Checkpoint/Restore - a FOSDEM talk about how to checkpoint and make a point-in-time recovery of containers in Kubernetes.
KiND - How I Wasted a Day Loading Local Docker Images - an article on how to use local Docker images in KiND - a popular local Kubernetes solution.
Increase Node.js Memory Limit (Bonus: PM2) - an article about how to configure NodeJS memory usage.
Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google data-center networking evolution - some history behind Google’s private networking.
How to - Choose the Right Instance Size for AWS RDS - a couple of advices on how to size your RDS instances correctly.
TigerBeetle - a financial database that can handle an insane number of (financial) transactions, while stay resilient. Here’s Prime’s interview with the creators of this DB.
Announcing Prometheus 3.0 - book some time to upgrade!
The Hard Truth about GitOps and Database Rollbacks - an article by creators of Atlas - a tool to manage DB state - on why managing database migrations is hard. Yes, there is a bias in this article, since it comes from a vendor. A fully open-source alternative to Atlas is SchemaHero. Although, there is no feature-parity and SchemaHero handles some concepts differently.
ThoughtWorks Technology Radar - a new 31st edition of ThoughtWorks Technology Radar. Here’s a direct link to PDF.
Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges) - a nice overview of Bluesky’s internal by Gergely Orosz and Elin Nilsson.
That’s all, folks! I’ll try not to miss newsletters, I promise. Here’s a poster-kebab from Barcelona.
