Week 12 '23

Incident management, platform engineering teams, Kubernetes & Elasticsearch operations, Go single-method interfaces, using less memory in Go programs and many more

SRE

• https://scribe.rip/govtech-edu/how-we-keep-our-government-apps-running-with-high-reliability-a-peek-at-our-incident-management-fe1386d0fa43

  • incident management is a crucial process to maintain system reliability

• https://www.infoq.com/presentations/incident-command-system/

  • Laura Maguire uncovers the hidden costs of coordination, and shows how resilient performance is directly tied to coordination

• https://blog.container-solutions.com/paula-kennedy-on-platform-team-responsibilities-patterns-and-anti-patterns

  • Charles Humble talks to Paula Kennedy about the rise of platforms.  They discuss platform definitions; common anti-patterns and how to guard against them at both a team and organisational level; proving the value of a platform team to the business; setting up a platform team; lessons learned from Pivotal; and the Syntasso product

• https://docs.chainloop.dev/blog/software-supply-chain-attestation-easy-way

  • implement Software Supply Chain Attestation that meets the latest standards and compliance levels

• https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/rightsize-kubernetes-workloads/

  • how Kubernetes schedules pods on nodes and how that affects your resource usage and also share some practical tips to help you rightsize your Kubernetes workloads for cost efficiency and performance

• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/core-ost-sts-sources-trond-hjorteland/

  • list of core Open Systems Theory and Sociotechnical Systems design sources

• https://sematext.com/blog/elastic-dev-command-to-know-about-disk/

  • Disk-related issues with Elasticsearch can present themselves through various symptoms. It is important to understand their root causes and know how to deal with them when they arise

• https://monitorama.com/2023/pdx.html

  June 26-28, 2023

• https://github.com/autometrics-dev

  • open source framework that makes it easy to understand the health and performance of your code in production

• https://github.com/cisagov/untitledgoosetool

  • robust and flexible hunt and incident response tool that adds novel authentication and data gathering methods in order to run a full investigation against a customer’s Azure Active Directory (AzureAD), Azure, and M365 environments

Golang

• https://github.com/dkorunic/betteralign

  • Make your Go programs use less memory (maybe)

• https://bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/generic-set

  A generic Set type in Go

• https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2023/the-power-of-single-method-interfaces-in-go/

  • describe how SMIs¹ are a more general and powerful technique than HOFs²

• https://ebitengine.org/en/documents/2.5.html

• https://build-your-own.org/blog/20230316_go_full_slice/

  • The usual slice syntax in Golang is a[low:high], which you are probably familiar with. There is also another slice syntax in the form of a[low:high:max], which takes three indexes instead of two. What does the 3rd index max do? Hint: It is not the step index in the Python slice syntax a[low:high:step].

• https://code-pilot.me/synchronization-patterns-in-go

  • opening the door to multithreaded programming comes
    with a whole set of new issues we, as developers and software engineers,
    have to consider. Most of them are related to shared memory and synchronization

• https://dzone.com/articles/how-we-solved-an-oom-issue-in-tidb-with-gomemlimit

  • To troubleshoot an OOM error in a database, it is important to monitor the database’s memory usage over time, profile the database to identify any potential bottlenecks or inefficiencies and optimize queries and indexes as needed

• https://github.com/alecthomas/participle

  • parser library for Go

• https://github.com/rogchap/v8go

  • Execute JavaScript from Go

  • https://rogchap.com/v8go

• https://github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai

  • OpenAI ChatGPT, GPT-3, GPT-4, DALL·E, Whisper API wrapper for Go

• https://github.com/dkfbasel/hot-reload

  • Hot reload development for Go

• https://github.com/kellabyte/frenzy

  • Postgres wire protocol aware mirroring proxy

• https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma

  • general purpose syntax highlighter in pure Go

• https://github.com/knadh/listmonk

  • High performance, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard. Single binary app

  • https://listmonk.app/

• https://github.com/go-micro/go-micro

  • Go microservices framework

• https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea

  • Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, includes Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

  • https://gitea.io/

• https://github.com/r3labs/sse

  • Server Sent Events server and client for Golang

• https://github.com/google/go-github

  • Go library for accessing the GitHub v3 API

• https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish

  • Make SSH apps, just like that! 💫

• https://github.com/charmbracelet/log

  • minimal, colorful Go logging library 🪵

• https://watch.thekitty.zone/watch?v=-CbXTBX0dbo

  How to bootstrap your Go project for CI/CD with GitLab

• https://www.golang.dk/articles/benchmarking-sqlite-performance-in-go

  • SQLite isn’t a fits-all solution. Nothing is. But raw query performance probably shouldn’t be your first concern when ruling out SQLite as your database of choice

• https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/02/13/how-debugging-go-programs-delve-and-ebpf-faster

  • how to use Delve to trace your Go programs and how Delve leverages eBPF under the hood to maximize efficiency and speed

• https://watch.thekitty.zone/watch?v=NS1hmEWv4Ac

  Make your Go go faster! Optimising performance through reducing memory allocations

• https://www.kelche.co/blog/go/golang-scheduling/

  The Golang Scheduler explained with diagrams

1. Single Method Interfaces

2. Higher-Order Functions