DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #631 - 29th January 2023

A few posts this week (on data teams, structured logs, core web vitals and more) but lots of new tools to look at too.

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News

Lots of data teams are increasingly adopting software development practices to improve quality and reliability. This post looks at building staging environments for data.
https://medium.com/riskified-technology/building-a-staging-environment-for-data-teams-855700fa390f

A discussion of technical debt, both what it is, how it comes about, and looking at setting aside time on a recurring basis to continually pay it down.
https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day

A deep dive into the inner workings of Kubernetes, specifically looking at the life of a DNS query in Kubernetes.
https://www.nslookup.io/learning/the-life-of-a-dns-query-in-kubernetes/

An introduction to the benefits of structured logs. Not a new idea, but it’s useful to have introductory posts like this to reference.
https://medium.com/@func25/why-you-should-use-structured-logging-format-47a388711316

A good starting point for understanding and monitoring Core Web Vitals, for improving web performance..
https://sematext.com/blog/core-web-vitals/

Tools

Jbom is another SBOM generation tool, specifically focused on Java applications. It can generate an SBOM from a running Java process.
https://github.com/eclipse/jbom

Another SBOM tool, SBOM Scorecard analyses an SBOM and provides some useful quality metrics.
https://github.com/eBay/sbom-scorecard

A new cloud infrastructure testing tool, precloud compares resources in CDK diffs and Terraform Plans against the state of your cloud account.
https://github.com/tinystacks/precloud

Smithy is a protocol-agnostic interface definition language and set of tools for generating clients, servers, and documentation for any programming language.
https://github.com/awslabs/smithy
https://smithy.io/2.0/index.html

Caretta uses eBPF to create a visual network map in Grafana of the services running in a Kubernetes cluster.
https://github.com/groundcover-com/caretta