CatOps Digest 2025-07-18
What was on CatOps in the last couple of weeks…
So, based on the latest survey, Friday is it :)
Charity
These two weeks we are raising funds for a workshop that repairs unarmed ground vehicles aka ground drones. The money goes to tools and materials. You can donate on this Monobank Jar
Digest
WIZ Cloud Security Championship - monthly cyber security challenges with a leader board.
Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck - an essay about the problems that AI doesn’t solve in software engineering.
CTOs Reveal How AI Changed Software Developer Hiring in 2025 - a collection of short interviews not with just CTOs, but other industry leaders about what they pay attention to, when interviewing candidates in the era of AI.
The company that created Kafka is replacing it with a new solution - LinkedIn is apparently working on a new distributes messaging solution.
Figma’s $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn’t the Scandal You Think It Is - an article about that reviews that Figma’s cloud spending is not that out of hand, despite the number itself being huge.
I shouldn’t have to read installer code every day - yet another fair criticism of Helm.
Bonus: If you enjoyed the article about Helm, and also wonder, how to make tame this beast, you may want to add some tests into your arsenal. Some time ago, I wrote two articles about that Part I: Problem statement and Part II: Implementation. Hope, you’d enjoy them too!
That’s all for today! See you in the next digest! I do not have a pretty photo for this one, so here’s a weather map for tomorrow.
