CatOps Digest 2026-04-24
What was on CatOps in the last couple of weeks...
Charity
Monobank Jar for rehabilitation of a Ukrainian defender, who lost his leg near Kostiantynivka. He is a brother-in-arms of a guy from my wife’s hometown.
Monobank Jar for radio-electronic equipment for the 25th Brigade.
Digest
Terragrunt 1.0 Released! - this release promises backward compatibility within the 1.x branch.
The Comforting Lie Of SHA Pinning - a story about unexpected quirks of referencing code by SHA on GitHub.
The Road Ahead for LocalStack: Upcoming Changes to the Delivery of Our AWS Cloud Emulators - an announcement from LocalStack that it will only keep the free-tier for non-commercial use. Here are some alternatives:
The Engineer’s Complete Guide to Technical Debt - “complete” is a little bit of an exaggeration here, but it’s a nice article about how to deal with tech debt.
The Developer Productivity Trap - a great read about the pitfalls of measuring developer productivity. It’s especially important to get it right in the age of AI, since the latter can multiply both good and bad practices.
Stop Using Pull Requests - an article from the same author as the previous one. This one builds a case for you to start measuring, how long does your code calmly waits for being reviewed and accepted.
Non-Blocking Continuous Code Reviews - a FOSDEM talk on a similar topic: how to prevent pull request reviews from blocking people.
We Need to Talk About the IPv8 Draft - a critique of the new IPv8 proposal draft.
Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) - the aforementioned draft itself.
The Laws Of Architectural Work - two important observations about the nature of systems architecture.
This is all for today! See you in the next one! In the meantime, here is a photo of cherry blossom.
