Week 11 '23

MX records, GPT-3, supply chain, structured logging in Go and many more

SRE

• https://www.netmeister.org/blog/mx-diversity.html

  • who can read your email pretty much boils down to -- yep -- "Google and Microsoft"

• https://blog.devgenius.io/using-chatgpt-for-devops-7daa7c1783e9

  • ChatGPT offers plenty of ways and opportunities for engineers to increase their productivity and help unblock themselves in ways that may have taken days or multiple people’s assistance previously

• https://spacelift.io/blog/terraform-best-practices

  20 Terraform Best Practices to Improve your TF workflow

• https://grafana.com/blog/2023/03/17/how-to-monitor-an-xdsl-modem-using-a-prometheus-exporter-plugin-and-grafana-agent-on-grafana-cloud-with-grafana-oncall/

  How to monitor an xDSL Modem using a Prometheus Exporter plugin and Grafana Agent on Grafana Cloud with Grafana OnCall

  • https://github.com/Dentrax/xdsl-exporter xDSL Prometheus Exporter

• https://blog.symops.com/2023/03/10/access-dynamodb/

  • the many ways to restrict access to a DynamoDB instance at both a framework and implementation level, utilizing patterns and tools such as RBAC, IAM, Terraform, Retool, and Sym

• https://scribe.rip/infrastructure-as-code-is-not-the-answer-cfaf4882dcba

  • does this mean that we just abandon the whole idea of IAC and go back to clicking around the Console? Well, not always? I think that’s the best answer. Much like good ideas of the past — think Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Serverless, Microservices, all these things can bring a lot of value

• https://github.com/chainloop-dev/chainloop open source software supply chain control plane, a single source of truth for artifacts plus a declarative attestation crafting process

  • https://docs.chainloop.dev/

• https://github.com/adamiBs/vscode-terraform-live-graph Terraform Live Graph Extension for Visual Studio Code is a plugin that allows you to generate a live Terraform graph as you code

  • https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=adamiBs.terraform-live-graph

• https://github.com/self-actuated/actions-usage Find your total usage on GitHub Actions

  • https://blog.alexellis.io/github-actions-usage-build-minutes/

Golang

• https://blog.felixge.de/flamescope-for-go/

  • how to visualize CPU samples from Go execution traces with FlameScope

• https://github.com/golang/go/issues/56345#issuecomment-1470506816

  • new package providing structured logging with levels just got merged into main Golang source repository

• https://betterstack.com/community/guides/logging/logging-in-go/

  • delve deep into the world of structured logging in Go, with a specific focus on recently accepted slog proposal which aims to bring high performance structured logging with levels to the standard library

• https://appliedgo.com/blog/go-project-layout

  The one-and-only, must-have, eternal Go project layout

• https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-03-13-golang-concurrency-examples/

  Real World Golang Concurrency Examples

• https://www.artur-rodrigues.com/tech/2023/03/12/reverse-proxy-with-dynamic-backend-selection.html

  Reverse proxy with dynamic backend selection. Traditionally, reverse proxies are configured with a static set of rules which determines the correct upstream/backend. When put in front of a sharded architecture, they might route traffic to the appropriate backend based on a subdomain (e.g., us-east-1.example.com) or a path (e.g., example.com/europe-west-2).

• https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/cxn3/advanced-markdown-processing-in-go.html

  • Using gomarkdown/markdown library

• https://tailscale.dev/blog/embedded-funnel

  • Funnel can be especially useful when you are hosting services in a homelab, or developing against webhook APIs that need to POST back to your server. The standard way to use Funnel is to install Tailscale, run your server on localhost, and then configure Funnel to share that server

• https://github.com/go-task/task/releases/tag/v3.22.0

• https://loopholelabs.io/blog/introducing-scale-functions

  • introducing Scale, a WebAssembly-powered function runtime that allows for performant, composable, and language-agnostic software development

• https://github.com/mgechev/revive

  • 🔥 ~6x faster, stricter, configurable, extensible, and beautiful drop-in replacement for golint

  • https://revive.run/

• https://github.com/go-chi/chi

  • lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

  • https://go-chi.io/

• https://github.com/ryanc414/dynamodbav

  • Marshal/Unmarshal utilities for DynamoDB

• https://github.com/tabellarius/logarithmotechnia

  • Dataframe library for Go

• https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp

  • faster, simpler way to drive browsers supporting the Chrome DevTools Protocol

• https://github.com/hajimehoshi/oto

  • low-level library to play sound on multiple platforms

• https://github.com/ko-build/ko

  • Build and deploy Go applications

  • https://ko.build/

• https://github.com/kataras/iris

  • fastest HTTP/2 Go Web Framework. New, modern and easy to learn. Fast development with Code you control. Unbeatable cost-performance ratio 🚀

  • https://www.iris-go.com/

• https://github.com/fatih/color

  • Color package for Go

  • https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/fatih/color

• https://github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru

  • Golang LRU¹ cache

• https://github.com/FerretDB/FerretDB

  • truly Open Source MongoDB alternative

  • https://www.ferretdb.io/

• https://github.com/go-sonic/sonic

  • blogging platform developed by Go. Simple and powerful

• https://github.com/deckarep/golang-set/releases/tag/v2.3.0

1. Least Recently Used, according to https://redis.io/docs/reference/eviction/