DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #665 - 24th September 2023

A few posts on CI tooling this week, along with a good introduction to developer portals/platforms and other topics.

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News

A good critical review of GitHub Actions, discussing some interesting security challenges, slow debugging cycles, the third party ecosystem and more, including suggestions for improvements.
https://blog.yossarian.net/2023/09/22/GitHub-Actions-could-be-so-much-better

An interesting guide to developer portals. From a particular vendor, but much of the guidance is general here, covering scorecards, service catalogues, self-service automation and more.
https://www.getport.io/guide

A detailed introductory post on scaling Kafka, covering people processes for onboarding topics, as well as configuration management, monitoring, security and more.
https://medium.com/paypal-tech/scaling-kafka-to-support-paypals-data-growth-a0b4da420fab

A look at right sizing Kubernetes cluster nodes, including a description of how CPU and memory are used by the Kubelet.
https://www.linode.com/blog/kubernetes/how-to-right-size-a-kubernetes-cluster-for-efficiency/

An introduction to Jenkins, covering setup and installation and the basics of Jenkinsfile.
https://medium.com/@arogbonloisaac/streamlining-software-delivery-with-jenkins-a-hands-on-guide-part-1-da4b95e3193c

Tools

Odin is a data-oriented programming language intended for modern systems programming, as an alternative to C.
https://odin-lang.org/

SeaGOAT is a local search engine for your source code. But one that uses a local LLM and a vector database to support more powerful searches.
https://kantord.github.io/SeaGOAT/
https://github.com/kantord/SeaGOAT

A small service for using Package URL (purl) to redirect to the package page on the relevant package management service.
https://github.com/hritik14/purl.fyi
https://purl.fyi/