It’s been a busy couple of weeks in DevOps Land! Elastic announced that Elasticsearch and Kibana will be dropping the Apache v2 license, HashiCorp unveiled CDK for Terraform 0.1 (which adds Java and C# support) and LinkedIn showed us just how insane their developer tool metrics are. Great news for you: it’s all right here in issue #18 of DevOps Industry Updates:

🔥 Top Cream

This issue’s top 4 stories:

1. What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
2. Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
3. How LinkedIn turned to real-time feedback for developer tooling
4. Elasticsearch and Kibana are now business risks

🌎 Society

• What you should know before leaking a Zoom meeting: at least one leaker has already been exposed. Here’s how to protect yourself or your sources.

• Why the Canadian Tech Scene Doesn’t Work

• Context switching costs more than we give it credit for: batching things by function can skyrocket your productivity

• How To Become a Data Engineer: thinking about expanding your horizons into the world of big data? Check this article out!

• Georgia’s runoff may have saved net neutrality: throttling could be much harder under a Democratic Senate

📟 DevOps

• Load testing is hard, and the tools are… not great. But why?

• Docker Compose: a nice way to set up a dev environment

• How LinkedIn turned to real-time feedback for developer tooling: over the last year, LinkedIn has been using real-time feedback to evolve their tooling and provide a more productive experience for their developers. It’s helped them double feedback participation, and more importantly, better tailor their recommendations and tooling improvements.

• Announcing CDK for Terraform 0.1: CDK for Terraform now supports Java and C# and has new collaboration features on Terraform Cloud.

• Elasticsearch and Kibana are now business risks: Elastic announced that they are changing the license of both Elasticsearch and Kibana from the open source Apache v2 license to the much more restrictive Server Side Public License.

• Awesome limits: everything has limits, including software systems. When you hit these limits, bad things can happen.

🛠️ DevOps Tools

• hasura/graphqurl: curl for GraphQL with autocomplete

• My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions: is your ISP’s CGNAT session timeout too short, causing TCP keepalives to get dropped? A great read that includes a tool to see if your own NAT, or your ISP’s CGN, suffers from this issue too.

• psql command line tutorial and cheat sheet: both a brief tutorial and a quick reference for the absolute least you need to know about psql.

• gping: ping, but with a graph.

• lyft/clutch: an extensible platform for infrastructure management, Clutch provides everything you need to simplify operations and in turn improve your developer experience and operational capabilities

• jpillora/chisel: a fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP

☸️ Kubernetes

• Red Hat to Acquire Kubernetes-Native Security Leader StackRox: with StackRox, Red Hat strengthens customers’ ability to build, deploy and run applications more securely across the open hybrid cloud

• Kubernetes image policy webhook explained

🔐 Security

• The Great iPwn: journalists hacked with suspected NSO group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ exploit

💻 Programming

• Ruby 3, concurrency and the ecosystem: with the Ruby 3.0 release, there’s been a lot of chatter about concurrency, parallelism, and async IO.

• Top Developer Trends for 2021

• Rust 2021 Roadmap

• Rust is a hard way to make a web API

🐧 Linux

• How to use whiptail to create more user-friendly interactive scripts: do you script in bash? If so, you can provide your users with a more robust and simple TUI for entering information into scripts.

🔩 Hardware

• WRT54G: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source: how Linksys’ most famous router, the WRT54G, tripped into legendary status because of an undocumented feature that slipped through during a merger.

🚢 Leadership

• What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry

• Algorithms for Decision Making: this book provides a broad introduction to algorithms for decision making under uncertainty. It covers a wide variety of topics related to decision making, introducing the underlying mathematical problem formulations and the algorithms for solving them.

• Maximizing Developer Effectiveness: examines how some organizations have used feedback loops to improve overall effectiveness and productivity, including micro-feedback loops that developers do 200 times a day.

☁️ Cloud

• A Distributed Systems Reading List: “I often argue that the toughest thing about distributed systems is changing the way you think. The below is a collection of material I’ve found useful for motivating these changes.” Enough said!

• JuiceFS: a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3

• Are B2B cloud service agreements safe?: “you don’t have to be a “bad guy” to occasionally run afoul of the policies. But if your business is permanently unwilling or unable to comply with a particular provider’s policies, you cannot use that provider.”

AWS

• How AWS is helping to secure internet routing: to help put an end to BGP hijacking, AWS has been working closely with other industry leaders to make an industry-wide standard practice the use of Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to digitally sign route announcements.

• Cheap, Durable, Fast. How to choose an EBS volume type?: this post compares gp2, gp3, and io2 volumes and explains how to choose the volume type that best fits certain scenarios.

• Amazon ECS vs. Amazon EKS: The Ultimate Showdown

• Canada’s Exposure Notification runs on AWS infrastructure

• Looking back on four years at AWS as a developer advocate

• Amazon SQS announces tiered pricing: customers using more than 500 billion requests a month could save 29% on their monthly Amazon SQS bill compared to the previous flat pricing.

• Amazon API Gateway now supports data mapping in HTTP APIs

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