DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #675 - 3rd December 2023

A mix of topics this week, running from operations (status page updates), observability (several posts on open telemetry use cases), plus videos from the recent PackagingCon conference and tools for managing GitHub Action runners.

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News

Writing public updates during incidents can be stressful. This post talks about some of the things you can do to make that job easier.
https://firehydrant.com/blog/your-guide-to-better-incident-status-pages/

A post on the importance of actionable metrics that are consumable by developers. It’s focused on Kubernetes in particular, but it’s just as applicable to any application runtime.
https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/devops/guest-article/what-do-developers-need-to-know-about-kubernetes-anyway/

A good primer on web performance, covering Core Web Vitals and using open telemetry to collect information.
https://www.honeycomb.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Web-Performance-KubeCon-NA-2023.pdf

Talk recordings from the recent PackagingCon event, in-depth talks on package manager security, build provenance, package repository quality assurance, new package managers and more.
https://www.youtube.com/@packagingcon_org/videos

An interesting, detailed, post on the architecture for modern cloud data systems.
https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/11/14/the-architecture-of-serverless-data-systems

Good discussion of why developer documentation is important and tips for writing better docs.
https://abstraction.blog/2023/11/22/intuitive-documentation-strategy

Tools

A terraform module for creating and managing scalable self hosted GitHub action runners.
https://github.com/philips-labs/terraform-aws-github-runner