Weekly news | 2024-02-07
news
- DEF CON was canceled. It’s now un-canceled.
- Cloudflare Breach: Nation-state hackers access source code and internal docs.
- Apple introduces Pkl, a programming language for configuration (like Cue).
- New resource: aws_controltower_landing_zone (merged!) - added to the aws provider v5.36.0 milestone.
- Cloud native container management platform Weaveworks (makers of Flux) shuts its doors . HackerNews post.
- 37signals (Makers of Basecamp and HEY) release Campfire - $299 unlimited self-hosted slack alternative.
- Apple's official 'jailbroken' iPhone for security researchers
- Terraform Docs may be in need of maintainers.
tooling
- chalk captures metadata at build time and adds to artifacts, so they can be identified in production.
- 'Chat' with your terraform state.
- tap: patch Terraform resource.
blogs
- A post on the perils of productivity metrics for software development, in particular considering the impact of generative AI developer tools.
- Paper on developer experience, including evidence of the benefits of investment in this area, and good points on selling the business benefits.
- Alerts are fundamentally messy: messiness of alerting, and in particular the need to constantly recalibrate alerts to make them useful.
- Predictions for DevOps in 2024 and a similar post.
- Top 10 AWS blog posts from 2023.
- Posts on evolving JSON schemas, exploring pros and cons of different approaches.