Weekly news | 2024-01-10

news

• AWS:
  • Monitor hybrid connectivity with Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitor
  • How to record resource configuration changes periodically with AWS Config
  • Amazon EKS now surfaces cluster health status details
  • AWS to Shut down Aurora Serverless v1, their sole relational database with scaling capacity to zero.
• Map of GitHub projects
• 'everything' blocks devs from removing their own npm packages
• OpenTofu 1.6.0 stable release.
• Major IT, crypto firms exposed to supply chain compromise via new class of CI/CD attack
• Android: warning As 1Password, DashLane, LastPass and 3 others leak passwords

tooling

• Atmos design patterns by CloudPosse.
• Gaia is a Terraform UI for your modules, and self-service infrastructure.
• Ktray simplifies the process of starting and stopping multiple port forwarding configurations through from your tray.
• Loco: new framework for building applications in Rust, heavily inspired by Ruby on Rails.

blogs

• The challenges of adopting automated testing practices.
• A opinion on security not being special, when compared to other disciplines - and the problems caused by security teams assuming it is.
• Time in computer systems.
• Speed up container image builds in Tekton pipelines.
• The four team types from the Team Topologies book and why it’s a useful model for designing and building software organisations.
• ElasticSearch search capabilities baked into PostgreSQL with pg_bm25 extension.
• Changes in upcoming Go 1.22.