Weekly news | 2023-12-27

news

• Amazon EKS introduces upgrade insights.
• otf (An open source alternative to Terraform Enterprise) archived on Dec 26, 2023.
• GitHub promotes LICENSE (if available) as a tab with the README in the UI.

tooling

• snk: generate a snake game from a GitHub user contributions graph
• gh-dash: a GitHub CLI extension to display a dashboard with PR and issues by filters
• Latacora (SecOps for hire) published recommended SCPs in Terraform.
• CNCF Incubating HeadLamp: A Kubernetes web UI that is fully-featured, user-friendly and extensible.
• GitHub Action to install GitHub Releases binaries.
• Neosync: Open source Test Data Management. HackerNews post.
• danswer: OpenSource Enterprise Question-Answering. Connects to tools like Slack, GitHub, Confluence, etc.

blogs

Some of the best blog posts and articles we've seen in 2023:

• A post on using open source LLM models, in particular focused on engineering for performance, including details of benchmarks and optimisation techniques.
• A detailed, technical, post on embracing eBPF for monitoring at the network layer and providing better control of a large microservice and infrastructure platform.
• A look at applying some of the DORA findings to improving incident management practices.
• Having a formal lead role for incident management is a common pattern. This post explains what that role should do, and why it’s important.
• A great post with tips for being on-call. Covering why on-call is hard, and what you and your team can do to make it suck less.
• A set of collected views on how generative AI can aid incident response. Lots of great observations and ideas, some of which will undoubtedly become features and products in the future.
• How InfoSec and risk management teams can support FinOps.
• Post on moving to Bazel, including local and remote instrumentation, parallel running and staggered rollout.
• Treating observability instrumentation as a first class part of software development.
• Second wave of devops tools. Some good observations here about what’s changed over the last 10+ years, and what hasn’t.