DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #611 - 11th September 2022

Distributed systems design, new programming languages, software supply chain maturity models, eBPF, on-call compensation. A range of different topics this week.

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News

The Open Source Software (OSS) Secure Supply Chain (SSC) Framework provides a useful maturity model for consuming open source software securely.
https://github.com/microsoft/oss-ssc-framework/blob/main/specification/framework.md

Designing distributed systems involves lots of aspects. This handy mindmap of system design concerns could be handy.
https://medium.com/vedcraft/system-design-mind-map-for-building-distributed-systems-b20a4f6943d0

A good example of the complexities inherent in modern software supply chains. A small number of packages built with a dangerous compiler flag cause a potentially huge impact downstream.
https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-with-my-subnormals.html

A post on establishing a culture of performance, by implementing continuous load testing. Good discussion of tools and people challenges, as well as the safety concerns of automating load testing.
https://slack.engineering/continuous-load-testing/

eBPF is starting to power more and more interesting technologies. This post is a a quick eBPF primer and set of links to learn more.
https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2022/09/08/ebpf/

A look at connecting Hashicorp Vault and Google CloudSQL using a custom Vault plugin.
https://expel.com/blog/connect-hashicorp-vault-and-googles-cloudsql-databases-new-plugin/

Events

CloudNativeCon US is coming up in Detroit in October, and this year there will be a dedicated Cloud Native Policy Day for all things Open Policy Agent. October 25th. Expect talks from end users and core maintainers.
https://www.styra.com/cloud-native-policy-day-with-opa-2022/

Tools

Unison is a new programming language, with what looks like some interesting ideas.
https://www.unison-lang.org/

Another language, Malloy, this time intended as a modern replacement for SQL, introducing a semantic modelling layer atop the data. It also compiles to SQL to make early adoption easier.
https://carlineng.com/?postid=malloy-intro
https://github.com/looker-open-source/malloy

A handy free tool to help better surface on-call compensation information. Integrates with Pagerduty and Slack.
https://incident.io/on-call/