Weekly news | 2024-01-24

news

• Weaveworks is in trouble.

• OpenTofu v.1.6.1 release.

tooling

• chalk: captures metadata at build time, and can add a small ‘chalk mark’ with that information to any artifacts (like compiled binaries or container images).

• dynamic-environment: rapidly spins up custom testing/dev environments for complex microservices architecture, streamlining workflow and boosting team agility. A blog about dynamic-environment.

• Kener: Open-source Status Page System

• terrac: another minimal private terraform module registry supporting cloud storage.

blogs

• How Gov.uk Notify migrates their PostgreSQL with 11 seconds downtime.

• A post on 14 points from Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge with modern cyber security examples..

• Linkedin DPH (Developer Productivity and Happiness Framework): set of documents formalising how to talk about and measure developer productivity and set goals to make improvements.

• Tips for being more user centred in IT departments, including multidisciplinary service teams..

• Tips for writing Reusable Root Modules / Enterprise Scale Terraform.

• Do you want your DSL to be Turing complete?.