Week 10 '23

COGS (cost of goods sold), Platform Engineering, SQL, code coverage for Go integration tests and many more

SRE-stuff

• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cogs-problem-michael-stahnke/

  • The COGS problem: Tools exist to help with cloud cost management

• https://www.maxcountryman.com/articles/delivering-value-with-platform-engineering

  • Delivering value with platform engineering

• https://www.syntasso.io/platform-journeys/

  • Platfrom journeys: explore the pains of each platform pattern and suggest a feasible next step that platform engineers can take to improve

• https://iasql.com/blog/beta/

  • IaSQL lets developers manage their cloud infrastructure as data in PostgreSQL as an alternative to the AWS console and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Pulumi and Terraform.

• https://www.gitguardian.com/files/the-state-of-secrets-sprawl-report-2023

  • Hard-coded secrets increased by 67% compared to 2021

• https://tech.loveholidays.com/linkerd-at-loveholidays-monitoring-our-apps-using-linkerd-metrics-fa44c13bee49

  • The dashboards built using Linkerd’s metrics to help us monitor our applications

• https://tech.loveholidays.com/linkerd-at-loveholidays-our-journey-to-a-production-service-mesh-9a6cd478d395

  • cluster with around 500 pods meshed at the time of writing (only our core microservices are meshed, and these numbers increase in the evenings during high traffic pod scaling), the Memory and CPU footprint of Linkerd is tiny

• https://ocurity.com/blog/sboms-with-dracon/

  • Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) provide transparency that is an important building block for identifying risk in the software supply chain

  Your codebase is a Jenga tower

When production goes down, what's the first thing you investigate

• https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff

  • An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust

Golang

• https://vercel.com/blog/turborepo-migration-go-rust

  Turborepo is migrating from Go to Rust

• https://go.dev/blog/integration-test-coverage

  Code coverage for Go integration tests

• https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/high-performance-json-parsing/

  • High-performance JSON parsing in Go

• https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/workspaces

  • Tutorial: Getting started with multi-module workspaces

• https://preslav.me/2023/03/07/reasons-against-sqlc/

  • on paper, sqlc seems like the best of both worlds

• https://wstrm.dev/posts/errors-join-heart-defer/

  • “you should handle errors”, but at the same time the ergonomics of handling errors from (io.ReadCloser).Close() in a defer call is cumbersome

• https://vishnubharathi.codes/blog/context-with-value-pitfall/

  • How not to use context.WithValue in Go

• https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2023/higher-order-functions-in-go/

  • Higher-order functions in Go

• https://ngrok.com/blog-post/ngrok-go

  • Introducing ngrok-go: Ingress to Your Go Apps as a net.Listener

• https://github.com/cohesivestack/valgo type-safe, expressive, and extensible validator library for Golang. Supports localization and is built with generics

• https://github.com/txaty/gool Generic goroutine pool: Submit, Map, Async

• https://github.com/SilverRainZ/go-ssaviz Visualize Go SSA function using Graphviz

• https://github.com/8ff/viterbi Convolutional encoder and a Viterbi decoder written in Golang

• https://github.com/golang/glog Leveled execution logs for Go

• https://github.com/deckarep/golang-set simple generic set type for the Go language. Trusted by Docker, 1Password, Ethereum and Hashicorp

• https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/releases/tag/v2.4.0

• https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite

• https://github.com/pressly/goose database migration tool. Supports SQL migrations and Go functions

• https://github.com/onsi/ginkgo Modern Testing Framework for Go

• https://github.com/wader/fq jq for binary formats - tool, language and decoders for working with binary and text formats

• https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-go Golang driver for ClickHouse