CatOps Digest 2025-07-03
What was on CatOps in the last couple of weeks...
Vox Populi, Vox Dei! In the last issue of the newsletter, 80% of y’all voted to move these digests on Thu-Fri. So, let’s try this out! Also, here’s yet another survey to narrow down your preferences.
Yet, you can always subscribe to the Telegram channel and get these great articles as they come (or rather as I catch up with my reading backlog).
Charity
DOU.ua raises 20M UAH for drones for the 3rd Assault Brigade. You can donate to the Monobank Jar directly.
They also have a dedicated page for this fundraiser (in Ukrainian). Or you can open a helper’s jar in Monobank to get some prizes and such. You can find more info here (in Ukrainian).
Digest
Apple quietly makes running Linux containers easier on Macs - it seems like Apple has finally realized that their main customers are the Tech companies.
Everything You Need to Know About Cache Strategies - a short explainer of various caching strategies that can help you to prepare to an interview.
16 billion passwords exposed in record-breaking data breach: what does it mean for you? - some initial details of yet another data leak. In reality, there are fewer credentials exposed than as the title claims, but who doesn’t like loud titles?
AI Reliability Engineering: Welcome to the Third Age of SRE - an article by Denys Vasyliev about the new challenges for SREs who take care of AI services.
How We Load Test Argo CD at Scale: 1,000 vClusters with GitOps on Kubernetes - a case study of how much Argo can take.
Ktea - a TUI tool for Kafka written in Go.
Kafka-UI - a web interface for Kafka with similar functionality (can run locally in Docker).
Writing Toy Software Is A Joy - an article on the joy of writing software for fun (and learning!).
That’s all for this time. Here’s an autogenerated a picture of a fan, because it was 35+ degree Celsius in Berlin in the last two days, and also I like it how AI depicts home appliances that defy laws of physics.
