Weekly news | 2024-03-06

news

• HashiCorp Non-GAAP EPS of $0.05 beats by $0.04, revenue of $155.8M beats by $6.51M (NASDAQ:HCP).
• Amazon just bought a 100% nuclear-powered data center.
• Cloudflare announces Firewall for AI.
• Amazon's AWS removes data transfer fees for clients switching to rivals.
• U.S. Department of Commerce Proposes “Know Your Customer” Requirements on IaaS Providers.
• Terraform v1.8.0-beta1 adds, OpenTofu 1.8.0 plans to add support for providers to export functions.
• OpenTofu feature preview: State Encryption.

tooling

• LLRT : lightweight JavaScript runtime intended to Serverless environments.
• testcontainers: open source framework for providing throwaway containers for just about anything.
• Icons for GitHub Action branding.
• Microsoft's symphony: CI/CD for IaC on multiple orchestrators.

blog

• Hacking Terraform state for privilege escalation.
• A post on Platform Engineering and Gartner’s model of platform engineering.
• A series of troubleshooting writeups from SREs:
  • Part 1: Golang and HTTP/2 issue; no Sentry for old Symfony; RabbitMQ and a third-party proxy; the power of a GIN index in PgSQL; caching S3 with NGINX; analyzing Google User Content during DDoS.
  • Part 2: Kafka and Docker variables in Kubernetes; 100 bytes that led ClickHouse to a disaster; one overheated K8s; ode to PostgreSQL’s pg_repack.
  • Part 3: Linux server migration; getting to know the ClickHouse Kubernetes operator; accelerating the data recovery in a broken PgSQL replica; a CockroachDB upgrade that went wrong.
  • Part 4: Package troubles in CentOS 6; sudden DNS modification and Ingress; Elasticsearch shards charade; restoring a PostgreSQL table; story of one missing pod.
  • Part 5: ceph, systemd and containerd.
• Good alert design: problem with workflows acknowledging alerts and the impact on alert fatigue.
• Building a Slack bot help with handoff for ongoing incidents.
• Testing in microservices environments.
• Checklists for security focused code review, for both server and frontend applications.