Weekly news | 2024-03-27

news

• AWS Control Tower now supports APIs in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
• GitHub’s latest AI tool can automatically fix code vulnerabilities.
• Podman Desktop 1.8 just released with it's own Kubernetes GUI.
• Atlantis and OpenTofu: The Future of Open-Source IaC by Jose (PePe) Amengual.

tooling

• kubeconform: A FAST Kubernetes manifests validator, with support for Custom Resources.
• difftastic: a structural diff that understands syntax.
• Spot Instance Availability Map: displays real-time Spot instance interruptions, insufficient capacity events, and pricing across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• ActionForge: a VS Code extension to Build GitHub Workflows visually.
• garnet: remote cache-store that offers strong performance (throughput and latency), scalability, storage, recovery, cluster sharding, key migration, and replication features. Redis compatible.
• retina:cloud-agnostic, Kubernetes network observability platform based on eBPF that provides a centralized hub for monitoring application health, network health, and security.

blog

• The Danger of Unreliable Platforms: A podcast on the pitfalls of platform engineering teams.
• How Figma’s databases team lived to tell the scale: Figma's journey to horizontally scale their Postgres databases.
• RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2024
• A post on using Terraform to manage Grafana dashboard configurations across multiple regional environments.
• The massive bug at the heart of the npm ecosystem: breakdown of a problem with the npm ecosystem and why it is susceptible to certain supply chain attacks.
• RIP Redis: How Garantia Data pulled off the biggest heist in open source history.