Weekly news | 2025-01-15

news

• DataDog acquires Quickwit
• Let's Encrypt announces Certificate Profile Selection
• OpenTofu 1.9.0 release with provider for_each
• Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
• 41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2030 due to AI
• Real life Black Mirror: My Amazon TV now unmutes itself during Prime Video commercial breaks
• PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024
• VLC tops 6 billion downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles
• The state of Vim
• WordPress is in trouble
• Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com

• AWS:
  • AWS Region new region Thailand ap-southeast-7 with 3AZs
  • CodeBuild batch builds with reserved capacity and Lambda compute
  • Compute Optimizer idle and rightsizing recommendations for EC2 Auto Scaling groups
  • Connect Contact Lens
    • agent performance evaluations for email contacts
    • free trials for conversational analytics and performance evaluations
  • DynamoDB configurable point-in-time-recovery periods
  • End User Messaging self-service sender ID registration support +19 countries
  • Local Zone in New York City
  • Marketplace disbursement pause notifications
  • MSK Connect PrivateLink support
  • RDS Preview Environment for MariaDB Innovation Release 11.7
  • SageMaker Code Editor IDE Q Developer
  • Systems Manager +20 runbook recommendations in Chatbot
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• aqua: Declarative CLI Version Manager - Unify tool versions in teams, projects, and CI
• webtop: Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs
• PrivTracker: Private BitTorrent tracker for everyone
• AI Voice Cloning using just 3-second samples
• Directory of remote-only jobs
• EditorConfig: maintain consistent coding styles for multiple developers working on the same project across various editors and IDEs. Used by Microsoft
• stagehand: An AI web browsing framework focused on simplicity and extensibility
• dockview: Zero dependency Docking Layout Manager. Supports Vanilla TypeScript, React and Vue.
• WASM-powered codespaces for Python notebooks on GitHub
• MessagePack: It's like JSON, but fast and small
• DevOps Engineer's Handbook
• Comtrya: another open source configuration management tool, writen in Rust. Alternative to Ansible, Saltstack

blogs

• Recorded Webinars:
  • Kubernetes 1.32 Release
  • Building open core SaaS services in 2025
• Unlocking cloud native security with Cilium and eBPF
• Nix - Death by a thousand cuts
• Can we communally deprecate git checkout?
• A Deep Dive into JVM Start Up
• SQL NULLs are Weird!
• I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?
• Enhance build security and reach SLSA Level 3 with GitHub Artifact Attestations
• Automated Accessibility Testing at Slack
• Migration Automation: Easing the Jenkins → GHA shift with help from AI
• You don’t have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase
• Missing out of jobs because of LeetCode
• How tab completion works in Bash
• Prometheus 3.0 Brings New UI, OpenTelemetry Support and More