- Thanksgiving 2023 security incident: More fallout from an okta security incident last year.
- What is Scalability Anyway?: A measure of how incremental increase in applied workload to a system affects resource utilization / required infra to handle it. Many workloads need more infra at the start of process (bootstrap os, program, etc) and then need a constant, predictable amount thereafter. Interesting that serverless avoids the initial bump but you pay more throughout the entire lifetime.
- API load testing: A beginner’s guide: Guide to doing load testing by grafana that talks about how to start and what to keep in mind. Good high level overview.
- Lessons From Our 8 Years Of Kubernetes In Production: K8s is a complex system that’s hard to run. A platform was built around it before it was well understood / ready for broad use. A lot of operations energy will be spent understanding it and keeping it up to date. Sounds fantastic!
- Indicators of Compromise (IOC) Security: Talks about some of the things you can look at to be able to tell a server has been breached. (eg Anomalous network activity)
- Get started with JDK Flight Recorder in OpenJDK 8u: Low overhead tracing / profiling framework for java backported to version 8. The aim is to introduce <1% overhead during a profile so it’s suitable to run in production. Analyzing data dumps collected is also nice with java mission control.
- Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server: Notes about what the fediverse is like and about running on a server of one.
- Logging at scale with canonical log lines: Arbitrarily wide log events, one log event per request, and machine-readable log events are good ideas I think.
- Oxide computer docs: Beautiful developer and operator documentation for a new datacenter computer.
- Canon TDD: Kent Beck describes the flow of building software in a test first way.
