DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #606 - 7th August 2022
Incident management, Kubernetes developer tools, organising development teams, multi-cloud adoption and more this week. A good mix of technical and wider topics too. Enjoy.
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News
A nice write up of a development team reorganising based on adopting team topologies approaches.
https://www.docker.com/blog/building-stronger-happier-engineering-teams-with-team-topologies/
An argument for not getting carried away with incident categorisation.
https://jonstevenshall.medium.com/dont-overcategorise-incidents-e5f275154090
A useful post on adopting sigstore incrementally for artifact signing if you’re already signing your packages.
https://blog.sigstore.dev/adopting-sigstore-incrementally-1b56a69b8c15
A post on using Java for Lambda applications, correcting a few misconceptions and discussing throughout vs cold start.
https://blog.symphonia.io/posts/2022-08-02_java_lambda_frenemies
It’s easy with the adoption of cloud to forget about the physical machines under the hood, but those computers are a lot more powerful than 15 years ago. This post talks about when you should consider the underlying hardware, and discusses some of the perils of distributed systems.
https://specbranch.com/posts/one-big-server/
Hashicorps state of the cloud research contains lots of real-world data on cloud adoption, in particular on the reality of multi-cloud and cloud automation.
https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud
Organisations have become much more confident with running databases on Kubernetes. This post walks through how to deploy PostgreSQL.
https://www.containiq.com/post/deploy-postgres-on-kubernetes
Tools
Acorn is a new application development framework for Kubernetes. It’s focused on the packaging of applications, with a UX inspired by Docker.
https://acorn.io/
Karmem is a fast binary serialization format that’s designed for web assembly use cases, but useful elsewhere too.
https://github.com/inkeliz/karmem