Weekly news | 2024-04-03

news

• AWS now supports Slack Connect for AWS sales to collaborate with customer and partners.
• CloudFlare introduces Python to Workers using Pyodide and WebAssembly .
• Redis fork emerges. Backed by AWS, Google and Oracle .
• The otherside of the Redis story: Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals.
• checkov IDE integration now paywalled by Palo Alto?. Workaround: a fork of the extension.

tooling

• lynx: Fast, secure and reliable Terraform backend in Elixir.
• Bytesize Architecture Sessions: a workshop format for 45 to 90 minutes that help teams understand the systems they work on.

blog

• Everything I know about the XZ backdoor by Evan Boehs.
• Documentation as code: Principles, workflow, and challenges.
• File Monitoring with eBPF and Tetragon (Part 1): using Tetragon for monitoring file change events, and why eBPF makes things like this scalable.
• Best practices for monitoring software testing in CI/CD.
• Native sidecar capabilities in Kubernetes 1.29+ for Jobs and CronJobs.
• Using CNCF's recently published Platform Engineering Maturity Model to assess and your current platform capabilities.
• 20-year journey to fix frame pointers in Linux so that profilers can work more accurately.
• Fine-grained RBAC for GitHub Action workflows with GitHub OIDC and HashiCorp Vault.