Weekly news | 2024-05-08

news

• OpenTofu Releases 1.7.1.
• Alerting issue: Social Engineering Takeovers of Open Source Projects.
• AWS Operating Revenue 3x in YoY Growth due to AI.
• Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose.
• The market for alternative clouds is booming.
• 2024 DORA survey now live: share your thoughts on AI, DevEx, and platform engineering.
• AWS S3 team is working on a fix for the s3 unauthorized request charges.
• TFLint now infected with BUSL.
• Pulumi pollutes Google SERPs with AI generated documentation.
• 30% of all Log4J downloads still affected by Log4Shell vulnerability.

blog

• Using GitHub Actions to Automate Terraform Deployments.
• Automation and the Jevons paradox: Evolution of system administration over the past 15 years.
• Navigating through failures, build resilient serverless systems: Building robust serverless architectures, describing patterns for dealing with failures and preventing them spreading through an application.
• How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode: S3’s cost model for DOS-like attacks to drive up costs if bucket names are known.
• AWS's new MemoryDB.
• Best practices for monitoring ML models in production.
• The Dawn of Code Agents: Embracing the Future of Software Development: the rise of generative AI-driven code agents and the impact on the future of software engineering.