CatOps Digest 2025-08-08
What was on CatOps in the last weeks...
It’s still unusual for me to write digests on Friday, so I totally forgot about it last week.
Charity
Our current ongoing fundraiser for 36th Marine Brigade: Monobank Jar - the goal is almost met, so let’s make the final push!
We were raising funds for a workshop that maintains ground drones. The goal of that fundraiser is reached, but the Monobank Jar is still open, since those are recurrent expenses.
DOU.ua continues their fundraiser for the 3rd Assault Brigade. Currently, a bit more than 50% of the goal is reached. More info (in Ukrainian). Monobank Jar for donations.
Time Sensitive
“SQL and Databases” bundle by O’Reilly. You still have 3 days to grab them!
“Learn Programming” software bundle by Zenva. Also, 3 days left for grabs!
Digest
Supercharging Development With Dapr and mirrord - an article that shows you how to do some local development with Dapr and mirrord (it’s like Telepresence)
Migrating the Jira Database Platform to AWS Aurora - a migration story from Atlassian
Our Experience with Amazon Aurora Blue/Green Deployments - another story about AWS Aurora from Klaviyo. This time about its blue/green functionality
Upcoming changes to the Bitnami catalog - Bitnami kind of sunsets their free offering for Docker images and Helm charts. The `latest` tag will still be available, but “stable” releases are moved under the paywal. Old artifacts are going to be moved to the archive repository. Check your dependencies!
Making Postgres 42,000x slower because I am unemployed - an invert story of Postgres optimization! If you know, how to make it slow, there’s a probability that you’d know how to make it faster.
META will let job candidates use AI during the interview - an interesting discussion on Reddit about allowing the candidates to use AI during technical interviews. Plus, apparently META is going to do that as well.
StackOverflow Developer Survey 2025 - self-explanatory.
Disposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World - an interesting article by Charity Majors, in which she elaborates on the idea of “disposable vs durable” code, AI, and what it all means to the industry.
Cloud Native PG - a good way to run PostgreSQL in Kubernetes.
That’s all for today, folks! Here’s an XKCD strip, that illustrates the recent Bitnami changes.
