For today's Donations Monday I have not one but two requests.

1. Folks from the Airbus VYK channel continuously raising funds for drones and related equipment. Subscribe to the channel to see recent fundraisers and detailed reports.

2. Our colleague and an author of the UA DevOps channel is raising funds for a Mavik 3T drone

#donations #Ukraine

A bit of Ukrainian tech community building.

Recently, our friend from UkrOps Digest asked his subscribers if they have any Telegram/YouTube channels, blogs, or other communities where they share their technical expertise.

Needless to say that there are quite a few responses to that post. I'm sure you'll be able to find something to your taste there as well!

Also, if you have a channel or a blog, make sure to leave a comment there as well. Or even better - make a pull request to the Awesome List of Ukrainian IT Communities!

#community #culture #Ukraine

OpenTofu 1.8.0 is out.

It's not like I'm following this project very closely. However, now its features started to diverge from Terraform. So, as they put it themselves:

Since Terraform doesn't support these new language features, OpenTofu now supports the .tofu file extension. When a file with the .tofu extension is present, OpenTofu will ignore the identically named .tf file. Using this new file extension, module authors can use the new 
features of OpenTofu and still keep older code around for compatibility.

So, if you support any open-source modules, have fun, I guess.

Also, it's interesting how many of you actually use OpenTofu in production?

#terraform #opentofu

The Story of Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2012 is a short story of rolling a massive change at Google.

Basically, they have enforced formatting rules for all the BUILD files for Bazel.

What I like in this story is how this change ended up being uneventful. Which confirms a point: if formatter is integrated into your workflow, you don't care about formatting, you don't even think about it much.

And this is one of the reasons I like Go so much: it has a formatter integrated into the language itself. Same thing with Terraform.

#culture

A small Saturday post from GetYourGuide on how they migrated from Spinnaker to ArgoCD.

There are not too many details in the article, so the main takeaway is that such migrations can be easier than they seem to be. Still, you need a political will to do that.

P.S. This article came from our chat. If you have other interesting stories to share, you can do it here.

#cicd

A new issue of the CatOps Digest is here!

https://newsletter.catops.dev/p/catops-digest-2024-08-11

#digest #newsletter

UA DevOps channel continues raising funds for a Mavik drone for the folks on the Kharkiv direction.

Link to the Monobank Jar: https://send.monobank.ua/jar/2WC8C4npTN

Original post in the channel: https://t.iss.one/devops4ua/566

#donations #Ukraine

Karpenter (Kubernetes nodes autoscaler by AWS) goes version 1.0 today.

Notable changes are listed in the announcement.

#kubernetes

​​A fundraiser for equipment for FPV drones by the UkrOps community is still ongoing!

About 40% still left.

You can top up a Monobank jar:

https://send.monobank.ua/jar/6k2H9iu8tN

Or a card directly:

5375411219683781

Original post

#donations #Ukraine

Amazing Julia Evans posts about the things she missed in Go.

This is kinda a promotion of the book "100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them" and you know what, now I want to read it!

P.S. Unfortunately, I don't have a chance to write much in Go lately, which makes me sad. Maybe, it will push me towards creating some side-projects, probably, someday, maybe 😭

#programming #golang

​​Happy Independence Day, cats!

As you know, freedom never comes for free. So, the best way to celebrate this day is to make a donation to your charity of choice.

Here the list of charities I link to almost every post

Also, I would like to remind you about fundraisers from our friends at:

- UkrOps Club
- UA DevOps

I skipped the newsletter today, because there were not that many posts on the channel, TBH.

So, as an apology, here is a brief reminder from Google on why heroism is bad.

#culture

A very nice collection of books on software architecture by O’Reilly.

As usual, you can pay different amount to unlock various number of books.

#books

The Senior Engineer Illusion: What I Thought vs. What I Learned is an article about one could have regarding the day-to-day routine of their more senior colleagues.

Ofc, many things may sound familiar to you personally, but never forget that there are less experienced peers in the industry for whom this information may be useful.

P.S. I didn't like some word choices of this article, but overall it's Ok.

#culture

Some people know that I'm not a fan of Python. Yet, I have to tolerate it because it is objectively one of the most popular and widespread programming languages.

So, here is an article about asynchronous code in Python.

Enjoy!

#programming #python

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

Ich möchte gerne Ihren eine neue Cloud Alternative vorstellen.

European alternative to AWS, Azure and Google was born inside Lidl

P.S. АТБ Cloud: when?

A new issue of the CatOps Digest:

https://newsletter.catops.dev/p/catops-digest-2024-09-01

#digest #newsletter

​​For today’s Donations Monday, I would like to share with you an initiative from Come Back Alive - “Dronefall”.

Instead of a monetary goal, this project aims to strike down 1000 russian reconnaissance drones.

#donations #Ukraine

Since I’m a bit busy this week, I cannot really bring too many articles to you this week.

Every time this happens, Humble Bundle comes to my rescue :D

So, today I want to share a bundle of courses about cloud by Packt.

You can get it for a bit more than $20 for the next 11 days.

#courses

I rarely share videos here, but it's Friday, so it's fine. Also, this video provides some food for thoughts.

This is a reaction video, if you wish, to an interview with Pieter Levels on the Lex Fridman podcast. I don't link the whole podcast episode here, because it's long, and it's also linked to the video I'm sharing.

You can think whatever you want about Lex and his podcast specifically, but here is what's interesting about this particular quest: he's running several websites that allegedly bring him $3M a year, and all of these websites are hosted on a single DigitalOcean server that costs $400. All these websites are created with PHP and JQuery.

We need to address an elephant in the room here: he does use 3rd party vendors to do some heavy-lifting for his projects, but many "startups" that have much more complex technical stacks do that as well.

I'm not arguing that this is the way to go for everyone, but still an interesting thing to think about.

#architecture #video