TLDR DevOps 2024-09-16

Voyager Launch is your chance to get a firsthand look at the expanding universe of observability.

Join speakers from Snowflake, RelationalAI, Dialpad, and Observe and learn the latest development about AI-assisted incident response, the new OpenTelemetry Collector agent, and more.

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News & Trends

Prometheus 3.0 Beta Released (4 minute read)

The Prometheus Team has announced the beta release of Prometheus Version 3.0, which features a modernized UI, enhanced OpenTelemetry support, and improved remote write capabilities. It is available for download but not recommended for critical production systems.

How the Harris-Trump US presidential debate influenced Internet traffic (9 minute read)

Cloudflare's latest report on the September 10 debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump revealed notable drops in US internet traffic and increased DNS activity to candidate-related and election sites, significantly influenced by timely endorsements and interviews, highlighting the digital landscape's response to pivotal political events.

Linux 6.11 Released (1 minute read)

Linus released Linux 6.11 this past Sunday. It includes new io_uring operations for bind() and listen(), amongst other features.

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OpenTelemetry and vendor neutrality: how to build an observability strategy with maximum flexibility (7 minute read)

OpenTelemetry's vendor neutrality allows organizations to avoid vendor lock-in by decoupling telemetry collection from storage and exploitation, thereby maximizing flexibility and future-proofing its observability strategies.

Customizing scopes in the OAuth app authorization flow (4 minute read)

Dropbox's new scoped apps and enhanced permissions enable developers to precisely control what their apps can access, offering greater security and peace of mind for users by allowing them to grant only the necessary permissions.

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Security layer for developers (Sponsor)

Arcjet helps developers protect their apps in code (no agent required). Implement bot protection, rate limiting, email validation, PII detection, and defense against common attacks; test everything locally so you don't break prod. Start free.

Yaak (GitHub Repo)

Yaak is a desktop API client for organizing and executing REST, GraphQL, and gRPC requests. It was built using Tauri, Rust, and ReactJS.

tetris-sql (GitHub Repo)

Experience the classic game Tetris like never before with Tetris-SQL, a fully playable version of Tetris implemented entirely via a SQL query, showcasing the power and flexibility of PostgreSQL.

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Miscellaneous

Noisy Neighbor Detection with eBPF (8 minute read)

Netflix's Compute and Performance Engineering teams leverage eBPF for efficient continuous monitoring of the Linux scheduler, enabling detailed observability and proactive detection of noisy neighbor issues in their multi-tenant environment, thus enhancing infrastructure reliability and performance.

We Spent $20 To Achieve RCE And Accidentally Became The Admins Of .MOBI (21 minute read)

With just $20 and a bit of experimentation, watchTowr Labs uncovered serious vulnerabilities in the WHOIS system, resulting in accidental administrative control over the .MOBI domain, highlighting alarming weaknesses in internet security infrastructure.

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Introducing o1: OpenAI's new reasoning model series for developers and enterprises on Azure (5 minute read)

Microsoft Azure has introduced OpenAI's new o1-preview and o1-mini models to its Azure AI Studio and GitHub Models, enhancing capabilities in complex coding, advanced problem solving, and nuanced document comparison.

Amazon EKS support in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod to scale foundation model development (1 minute read)

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports Amazon EKS, allowing customers to manage Kubernetes workloads with improved model training efficiency and automatic hardware failure handling.

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About TCP (2 minute read)

This is a comment thread from the Linux Weekly Newsletter that talks about some of the falsehoods that programmers believe about TCP.

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