CatOps Digest 2025-12-12
What was on CatOps in the last couple of weeks...
Charity
Let’s help the “Тихо” (silent in Ukrainian) Foundation to raise funds for FPV and Vampire drones: https://send.monobank.ua/jar/WaFbzLzNK
Time Sensitive
Cybersecurity books bundle by Packt - only 3 days left to grab it!
Hacking book bundle by No Starch Press - 10 days before it expires.
A salary survey from DOU.ua (in Ukrainian) - with more responses they’ll have more accurate results!
Digest
KubeСon 2025 Atlanta | AI and Kubernetes | OSI L8 | The Sunset of Open Source? | Your Development Plan - a video by Denys Vasyliev (in Ukrainian) about KubeCon NA 2025 and other things.
Minio is the maintenance mode now - the open source version is in the maintenance mode now, and the team behind it focuses on the commercial solution instead. There is also a discussion on Reddit about the possible migration options.
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 - a postmortem from Cloudflare for one of their recent outages.
Shadow work in engineering teams - an article on how to make your work visible for the organization and recognize the work that you do, but never account for.
KISS vs DRY in Infrastructure as Code: Why Simple Often Beats Clever - a case in favor of keeping your IaC configuration simple and verbose instead of using multiple layers of abstractions and the wrapper tools.
That’s all for now! Here’s a photo of an incredible human invention - a 24h vending machine in a random neighborhood of Wrocław where you can buy eggs whenever you need ‘em.
