Weekly news | 2024-04-24

news

• HashiCorp introduces the Infrastructure Cloud.
• OpenTofu Backend Encryption in 1.7.0.
• IBM to acquire HashiCorp.
• Slack rolls out its AI tools to all paying customers.
• BoostSecurity.io announces 'poutine': An Open Source Build Pipelines security scanner for GitHub Actions.
• AWS is using "module" approach with CloudFormation.
• GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs.

tooling

• Index Advisor: A PostgreSQL extension for recommending indexes to improve query performance.
• nfpm: nFPM is Not FPM - a simple deb, rpm, apk and arch linux packager written in Go by GoReleaser.

blog

• How we built Text-to-SQL at Pinterest: A look at one Pinterest's approach to building a service that converts text input into SQL queries, in order to improve data analysis efficiency.
• Slack's journey migrating to AWS IMDSv2 (AWS Instance Metadata Service v2).
• A Packwerk Retrospective: a post on unforeseen impact of tooling and the design of software.
• The Making of VES: the Cosmos Microservice for Netflix Video Encoding: How Netflix combines microservices with asynchronous workflows and serverless to encode videos.
• From PlatformCon 24: Platform Orchestrators: The Missing Middle of Internal Developer Platforms?.