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Lots of fundamentals this week, with posts on tagging, APIs, monitoring and incident response.

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News

A look at using GraphQL for APIs, instead of the more common REST or HTTP based APIs.Good discussion of the background the the problems being solved.
https://medium.com/@stavbarak/graphql-the-rest-is-history-464d0ce3d704

A presentation and slides on building resilience and how to learn from incidents. Looking at common problems with investigating production problems.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon19emea/presentation/stenning

Tagging is commonly used for categorisation of services and applications. This post delves into common patterns and best practices.
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/tagging-best-practices/

A good list of things to watch out for when adopting devops, focused on culture, communication or organisational change.
https://www.cloudops.com/2020/01/top-10-mistakes-to-avoid-when-adopting-devops/

A survey of more than a 1000 individuals covering logging, monitoring and observability.
https://logz.io/devops-pulse-2019/

A detailed look at running Elasticsearch on a Kubernetes cluster, including deployment, configuration, monitoring and more.
https://sematext.com/blog/kubernetes-elasticsearch/

How to collect logs differs from platform to platform. This post looks at gathering logs from AWS cloudwatch and shipping to Loki, using a Lambda function.
https://roobert.github.io/2020/01/12/Cloudwatch-Loki-Shipper/

A more than hello world example of deploying a microservice application to AWS ECS. Takes in monitoring, CI/CD, service orchestration and infrastructure provisioning.
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/a-practical-guide-to-deploying-microservices-on-aws-6a8ddd298f7e

Tools

rqlite is a distributed relational database. Built on SQLite, but with simple deployment and raft based consensus between instances.
https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

Terrier is a new tool for analyzing container images. It focuses on ensuring images container, or don’t container, specific files.
https://blog.heroku.com/terrier-open-source-identifying-analyzing-containers
https://github.com/heroku/terrier

Gyro is a new cloud infrastructure management tool. It uses a new DSL to describe AWS or Azure resources, and provides a CLI tool for provisioning and management.
https://getgyro.io/introducing-gyro
https://github.com/perfectsense/gyro

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