Week 13 '23

incident reports, cloud spending, buy vs build, error rates, new tools, events. Highlights: SRE conference, infra as code, testing solutions, Go-Ruby app for speech recognition

SRE

• https://blog.container-solutions.com/incident-write-ups-they-want-to-read

  • Why should we try to make incident reports engaging

  Breaking Down the Latest Battery Ventures Cloud Software Spending Report

• https://www.pulumi.com/blog/reducing-our-error-rate/

  • You should read every error message that your system produces. Simple but effective.

• https://ziglang.org/news/goodbye-cpp/

  • the C++ implementation of Zig originally used the same strategy as the D compiler - not freeing memory until process exit. This design decision stopped being practical as compile-time code execution became one of the flagship features of the language, and projects grew larger combined with Zig using one compilation unit for everything.

• https://octopus.com/blog/devops-uses-capability-not-maturity

  • maturity model represents groups of characteristics, like processes or activities, into a sequence of maturity levels. By following the groups from the easiest to the most advanced, an organization can implement all the required elements of the model. The process is a journey from adoption through to maturity

• https://ti.to/container-solutions/wtf-is-sre-2023/with/vuq74mprxgo

  WTF is SRE? 2023 launching on May 4th–5th, 2023 in London, UK

• https://github.com/cdklabs/decdk Define AWS CDK applications declaratively

• https://aiac.dev

  • https://github.com/gofireflyio/aiac Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure-as-Code Generator

• https://github.com/philips-software/SPDXMerge SPDX Merge tool

Golang

• https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-03-28-swiss-map/

  • new Golang hash table based on SwissTable that is faster and uses less memory than Golang's built-in map

• https://go.dev/blog/go1

  • Go 1 released 11 years ago 🎂

• https://bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/adapter

  • How do you test a database without a database?

• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/how-to-connect-your-go-application-to-cloud-sql/

  • With the Go Connector, you get all the best-practices of connecting securely out of the box

• https://www.druva.com/blog/websockets--scale-at-fractional-footprint-in-go

  • explore how WebSockets can help you scale millions of active, persistent connections without taking up too much space

• https://www.storj.io/blog/go-integration-tests-with-postgres

  • When writing server side projects in Go, at some point you will also need to test against a database

• https://changelog.com/gotime/271

  Cross-platform graphical user interfaces

• https://www.kenaqshal.com/blog/debugging-dockerized-go-applications

  • explore how to debug Go applications in Docker containers using Visual Studio Code

• https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/anycable-goes-off-rails-connecting-twilio-streams-with-hanami

  • WebSocket server that powers AnyCable applications. It’s a core component that is responsible for handling connections, dealing with broadcasts, and so on

• https://github.com/dominikh/gotraceui

  • Go execution trace frontend

• https://github.com/pojntfx/go-nbd

  • Pure Go NBD server and client library

• https://github.com/boyter/gocodewalker/

  • Library to help with walking of code directories in go

• https://github.com/lmittmann/tint

  • 🌈 slog.Handler that writes tinted logs

• https://github.com/fzipp/pathfind

  • Path finding on a 2D polygonal map

• https://github.com/tetratelabs/wazero

  • wazero: the zero dependency WebAssembly runtime for Go developers

• https://docs.pingcap.com/tidb/v7.0/release-7.0.0

• https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/releases/tag/v0.3.0

• https://github.com/MontFerret/ferret

  • Declarative web scraping

• https://github.com/gofiber/fiber

  • ⚡️ Express inspired web framework written in Go

• https://github.com/cloudwego/hertz

  • Go HTTP framework with high-performance and strong-extensibility for building micro-services.

• https://github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch

  • official Go client for Elasticsearch

• https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go

  • Golang client for NATS, the cloud native messaging system