CatOps Digest 2025-08-22
What was on CatOps in the last couple of weeks...
Charity
DOU.ua continues their fundraiser for the 3rd Assault Brigade. Here is more info (in Ukrainian). You can donate on this Monobank Jar.
Musicians Defend Ukraine is a foundation that a friend of mine, who works in the music industry, created at the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
Time Sensitive
Linux Books Bundle by Pearson - 9 more days to grab!
Software Architecture Books by O’Reilly - 16 more days available.
Digest
Microservices are Mess without these Patterns - some patterns that are frequently used in system design.
ESO Maintainer Update: We need help - a call for help from the maintainers of the External Secrets Operator - a popular tool to sync credentials from your secrets storage into Kubernetes.
Announcing Crossplane 2.0 - a new major release of Crossplane is here with some notable (and really nice) changes!
Note from Teemu, Tim, and Torin to the Open Policy Agent community - the team behind Open Policy Agent has joined Apple. The project itself if still under CNCF, so hopefully this is good news.
7 real S3 screw-ups I see all the time (and how to fix them) - people on Reddit share their tips on how to decrease the cost of AWS S3.
That’s all, folks!
But wait, here’s a bonus!
[Media] I Have No Mut and I Must Borrow is a must-read for all the enjoyers of Rust and old-school sci-fi!
