#random - October 2023

Hello Everyone,

Can you imagine a 25x faster time to go live?

Facets.cloud is hosting a webinar on how Purplle.com, one of the largest e-beauty destinations, was able to do just that! They harnessed the power of Platform Engineering to mitigate complex problems in SDLC process, enhance developer productivity, and increase deployment time, and as a result, experienced a 25x faster time to go live.

Psst: Still sounds too good to be true?

Hear it straight from the horse’s mouth on 11th October, 4:30 PM IST.

In this Webinar, Suyash Katyayani Co-founder and CTO at Purplle will talk about how they tackled rising complexities within their microservices architecture with finesse.

Register here: https://app.zuddl.com/p/a/event/6f84d3ee-430c-4235-bfbf-9a641ed170d2

Here's another conversation (versioning) I've had a thousand times as a GIST, for those who may benefit from having such a resource.
https://gist.github.com/AlexAtkinson/7be00d6be71fab970210006b9574e1e5

Let me know if there's anything valuable to add.

@Jamie Nelson (BitFlight) https://github.com/bitflight-devops/github-action-readme-generator 😃

So we want newer, better, faster, but that comes with fancy new flaws...
And we don't want old crud, because that has all the old crud flaws...
I say we give up on computers. Clearly we're not ready for them yet. Though the same could be said for pointy sticks...

You'll poke your eye out. ☝️

Hi everyone, I’m Hugo from Mergify 👋

We are conducting a survey about CI use to better understand the specific issues CI users are facing.

As we prepare to launch our new product, CI Monitoring, it will help us enhance our understanding of CI users’ workflow.

➡️ The form is below, 3 minutes, non-mandatory answers. Thanks!

https://forms.mergify.com/CI-Survey

https://www.reddit.com/r/softwarearchitecture/comments/16zx6bv/monolith_to_cloud/ hi everybody, could I please ask you some advices on this thread? Thank you guys!

I cut my webapp teeth on PHP4/5, and I remember this bologna:
"A bool true value is converted to the string "1". bool false is converted to "" (the empty string). This allows conversion back and forth between bool and string values."... Are there any other languages where false does not equal false or 0?

Recent debates, spurred by the McKinsey report “Yes, you can measure software developer productivity,” have centred on the effective use of metrics within engineering to report to the C-Suite level. A broader question surfaces of how to ensure what is measured is valid and useful in achieving its intended purpose.

Join George Nikolaropoulos, GWI’s SVP of Engineering, to discover how they adapted their metrics to suit their engineering teams, VPs, and C-Suite to stimulate the conversations driving continuous improvement at multiple levels of their organisation.

Register for this webinar: https://plandek.com/resource/client-webinar-series-gwi/

Quick question for y’all, before committing to version control, our team has a series of pre-commit hooks and Github Actions for formatting, linting, and labeling that kick off. To minimize wasted resources from spinning up just to fail on a simple error like stacks not validating, where would you implement simple checks to avoid from spinning up the runners prematurely? Would a pre-commit hook like the following be useful or would you put this validation somewhere else?

  - repo: local
    hooks:
      - id: atmos-validate-stacks
        name: atmos-validate-stacks
        entry: bash -c 'atmos validate stacks'
        language: system
        files: \.(yaml|tf)$
        pass_filenames: false

this looks pretty interesting for people looking to save on networking costs who can tolerate a couple mins of downtime (CRD managed by GKE which when coupled with a regional disk and pod priority class allows for fast failover). A bit like Route 53 Application Recovery Controller but more focused on saving costs.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/introducing-gke-stateful-high-availability-controller

Hi 😁,

I'm using Flux to deploy all my applications and objects on my k3s cluster, and I'm using Longhorn for dynamic persistent volumes (PV).

In the event of a disaster, I understand that Longhorn can help restore PVs. However, I'm curious about how PVCs created by Flux will behave in this scenario. Will they automatically use the existing restored PVs from Longhorn, or is there a different approach needed for disaster recovery (DR)?

I'm also wondering if Velero is a suitable tool for this situation. I've never used it before, and I'd appreciate any insights or advice from those who have experience with it?

Thanks.

Hi All - I'm Matt from the Cycle team. We're building a LowOps container orchestration / infra management platform. If you're tired of the complexity of k8s, check out the link here.

Has anyone here used https://www.replicated.com/ to distribute their product (supporting k8s and helm charts)

Hey everyone!
We are hosting a Webinar about Platform Engineering featuring one of our customers.

The Webinar teaches you how to create AWS Accounts in minutes with Jira Service Management and a Developer Self-Service and unlock your AWS Cloud Infrastructure.

📅 Friday 17. November 2023
🕙️ 10:00 AM CET
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What you will learn:

- Set up AWS Infrastructure in minutes with JSM Cloud & Developer Self-Service
- Follow our seamless account creation process in JSM
- Experience the power of approvals for a streamlined workflow
- Explore the extensive account catalog in Asset Management
- Harnessing AWS & JSM for cost efficiency, speed, security, and compliance with our developer self-service

Save your spot!

https://team.xalt.de/platform-engineering-webinar

Hi folks! I just published a blog on medium about the CNCF ArtifactHub ❤️ KCL integration and new IDE features including reference and rename functions. Welcome to read and provide feedback. ❤️ https://medium.com/@xpf6677/kcl-biweekly-newsletter-2023-10-12-10-25-246f04e10f16

interesting critique of CDK from this Devtools fm podcast:

https://www.devtools.fm/episode/72?view=TRANSCRIPT

So they built CDK to compile to yaml. So just like kinda layers on top of layers. And the reality is, is that, uh, cloud formation to begin with is not very good. The design of CDK is also really bad, and we've kind of really deeply understood that over the years of using it, everything from just like the design, the design patterns that the user ends up interfacing with to like how it works under the hood, it is like one of the most over-engineered, craziest code bases I've ever jumped into.

Um, and for a while I was kind of convinced that I kinda had a really good excuse for them, which was okay, they, this was a bad decision, but is I was like, okay, I'll give them this, which is they wanted to support multiple languages and based off of what I was seeing, I was like, okay, maybe it's just really difficult to do something like this across multiple languages.

So every time I saw like a performance issue or like a design issue, I was kind of like, okay, this is probably because they try to support multiple languages. But more recently I've like explored other projects that are like competitive with c d k, that do the same thing and have the same multi-language support and they just did a much better job.

So again, like this is the type of thing that AWS is not good at executing at. Uh, like I, even the history of their project, I'm pretty sure that they did not want to make it multi-language, but they were forced to because there's like, nothing gets approved AWS unless it supports things widely. We have a bunch of people that maybe were forced into doing that.

Two other (more positive) recent podcasts on CDK:

https://realworldserverless.com/episode/86
https://realworldserverless.com/episode/85