A short issue this week as we start the new year with cloud management tools, performance case studies, learning Azure and AWS services and a few other posts.

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News

A detailed post on making performance gains in a large Go microservice infrastructure by tuning the Go garbage collector.
https://eng.uber.com/how-we-saved-70k-cores-across-30-mission-critical-services/

A handy workshop for anyone learning Azure, from Azure DevOps to Azure Pipelines, Terraform, Kubernetes and setting up application monitoring.
https://thomasthornton.cloud/2021/12/26/a-devops-journey-using-azure-devops/

A nice introduction to eBPF, starting from a hello world and moving on to storing state in BPF maps.
https://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2021/12/day-23-what-is-ebpf.html

An interesting post on using Kubernetes admission controllers to detect drift in containers and evict the pods.
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2021/12/21/admission-controllers-for-container-drift/

A walkthrough of using AWS Amplify, which provides a high-level application development framework over other AWS services.
https://codersociety.com/blog/articles/getting-started-with-aws-amplify

Tools

Pleco is a tool for automatically deleting cloud resources based on TTL tags. It can currently delete namespaces from Kubernetes and a wide range of AWS, DigitalOcean and Scaleways services.
https://github.com/Qovery/pleco

Portmaster is a handy local tool for seeing your network connections, including the ability to block traffic, reroute DNS over TLS and more.
https://safing.io/portmaster/
https://github.com/safing/portmaster/