Starting off with several solid practical posts this week, with advice on adopting CI/CD, secure system design, and embracing sustainable operations practices.

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News

A good post on what it takes to adopt CI/CD practices, looking at build and release engineering, monitoring, testing and more.
https://medium.com/driven-by-code/the-journey-to-ci-cd-b1872927c36b

A series of posts covering a set of design principles for building secure modern systems. The set of anti-patterns in particular makes for interesting reading for anyone interested in system design.
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/secure-systems-design–new-guidance-now-available
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/cyber-security-design-principles
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/whitepaper/security-architecture-anti-patterns

A detailed post on the importance of production excellence. Why simply giving folks the keys to production isn’t enough, and why various aspects of operations are essential for high-quality systems.
https://www.infoq.com/articles/production-excellence-sustainable-operations-complex-systems/

An interesting look at a new configuration tool with an interactive CLI tool vs more file management. Based on some survey research which has some interesting questions too.
https://marmelab.com/blog/2019/05/28/releasing-comfygure-1-0.html

A post partly about the AWS SQS service, but more about why queuing systems are at the heart of building scalable architectures.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2019/05/26/SQS

Kind is a tool designed for testing other Kubernetes tools. It makes it trivial to spin up ephemeral clusters on top of Docker. This post uses Kind with a simple Makefile to build a simple provisioning tool.
https://garethr.dev/2019/05/ephemeral-kubernetes-clusters-with-kind-and-make/

A comparison of some aspects of the AWS and Azure serverless offerings. Looking at the differences in pricing, language support, deployment options and state management amongst other areas.
https://kreuzwerker.de/blog/going-serverless-drives-me-crazy-or-choosing-between-aws-lambda-and-azure

Tools

Kui is described as a hybrid CLI/UI development experience for cloud-native applications. It provides similar functionality to parts of kubectl, but combines a terminal with rich GUI output as well. Interesting tool and a novel user interface.
https://github.com/IBM/kui

Homebrew is a popular package manager for macOS. Homebrew Bundle provides a way of describing in a single file all the desired packages, and then installing them in one command. Handy for sharing dependencies between machines.
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle

High-level Kubernetes tooling has often been restricted to Go, so it’s nice to see tools like kopf appearing. Kopf is a Python library for writing Kubernetes operators, with a simple API and lots of examples.
https://github.com/zalando-incubator/kopf

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