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Fascinating work being done at fingerprinting specific DNS servers with an aim of identifying where DNS is being hijacked. Scary and interesting. This is made possible using the RIPE Atlas probe network which is amazing in it's own right.
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Terraform is in use pretty much everywhere these days but I can't really help feeling its a giant hack full of scary monsters in the corners. There's a good post titled Terraform Gotchas And How We Work Around Them that's worth a look. Also always worth mentioning the good resources at charity.wtf about Terraform.
Speaking about Terraform, there's an interesting Ruby abstraction above Terraform that might be worth looking at called Geoengineering. Also James launched his Terraform Book.
Rands writes an interesting blog about Management and Geek stuff in general. He has a great post up making the point that moving into Management is an entire career reboot. Many of us tend to look to Management as a promotion but really you should look at is as a fresh start. Perhaps a different perspective is again from Charity about this saying that for Geeks you should approach this as more of a pendulum.
Julia Evans excel at making complex things approachable and understandable. She's been looking at Terraform and true to form wrote an excellent post about it. Also worth checking out this nice deep dive into the K8s Pod Scheduling logic.
You Are Not Google is a really good post trying to get people to think pragmatically and realistically about their problems and their scale. A few other companies and tech also mentioned, this style of thinking should be foremost in our minds.
In a previous post I mentioned the recently launched Istio - Redmonk has a good followup post that looks at what exactly is a Service Mesh.
GitHub published a load of details about their DNS infrastructure, pretty awesome stuff.
Shopify released a nice tool to help you simulate slow/broken networks to assist in your resiliency testing called Toxiproxy.
Ubuntu on AWS got some very impressive performance boosts due to some tuning done by canonical. The post has a bunch of detail and very impressive numbers like a 30% drop in boot time - important for auto scaling setups. If you use Ubuntu this is worth checking out.
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Pretty big changes afoot in Ruby land. They are moving a bunch of core into Rubygems, some more information up at Standard Gems.
There's an in depth look into why and how you should use a traditional relational database for your time series data rather than something new and sparkly. It's interesting reading, I somehow never considered not using a time series DB since I guess my first intro to this field was RRD, but the post has interesting points and graphs.
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Kaitai Struct is a binary data reverse engineering tool. They launch a kind of a app store/marketplace/forge for binary formats, simply amazing.
An amazing demonstration of data science here while trying to answer the question Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive.
Gareth Rushgrove wrote about speaking at events while employed by a vendor. Lots of good stuff here to note. I recently reviewed conference submissions and you'd do well to keep this in mind if this is you.
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