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October 14, 11:08 am

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News & Trends

Vault 1.18 introduces support for IPv6 and CMPv2 while improving security team user experience (4 minute read)

HashiCorp Vault 1.18 introduces significant features including support for IPv6, CMPv2 PKI for 5G compliance, and enhanced user experiences for security teams with UI improvements. The update also enhances high availability with adaptive overload protection and enables automatic password rotation for PostgreSQL database accounts.
eBPF Is Coming for Windows (4 minute read)

eBPF, originally developed for Linux, is being adapted for Windows to enable cross-platform compatibility for in-kernel programs. This effort aims to standardize eBPF, allowing developers to create tools that work seamlessly on both Windows and Linux.
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Opinions & Tutorials

How Amazon Scales Up for Prime Day with AWS (7 minute read)

Amazon Prime Day, a major shopping event that rivals Black Friday and Cyber Monday, garners massive global participation and showcases the remarkable capabilities of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in scaling and managing unprecedented levels of traffic and transactions with seamless efficiency.
How We Use Datadog for Detection as Code (9 minute read)

Datadog uses Detection as Code (DaC) to effectively manage threat detection and security operations. It utilizes software engineering best practices to streamline rule creation and maintenance across its complex infrastructure.
How to Create a Secure CI/CD Pipeline Using Okta Terraform (20 minute read)

This guide simplifies the journey into DevOps for beginners by teaching how to set up a secure CI/CD pipeline using Okta, Terraform, AWS, and GitHub Actions while ensuring seamless integration and deployment of code changes.
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Resources & Tools

Don't let easy-to-overlook risks sink your next release (Sponsor)

Outages, degraded user experience, lost revenue. These are just some of the bad outcomes of a mismanaged release process. Think this can't happen to you? Take LaunchDarkly's Software Release Risk Assessment to find out what can go wrong. It's easy, free, and takes 2 minutes to complete. Get your risk score
Harper (GitHub Repo)

Harper is a private, efficient, and extensible grammar checker designed to address common issues faced with other tools like Grammarly and LanguageTool. It provides fast performance and minimal memory usage without compromising user privacy.
SiYuan (GitHub Repo)

SiYuan is a privacy-focused personal knowledge management system that offers features such as block-level referencing, Markdown WYSIWYG editing, and a wide array of export options. Most functionalities are available for free even for commercial use.
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Miscellaneous

We're All Just Looking for Connection (7 minute read)

This post explores how engineers integrated Quip's technology into Slack. Engineers at Slack navigated through a challenging bug that revolved around TCP state issues and involved unexpected closed connections from database proxies, leading to crucial lessons about maintaining connection accuracy and restarting the Python runtime migration project seamlessly.
Replacing StatefulSets With a Custom K8s Operator in Our Postgres Cloud Platform (15 minute read)

Timescale revolutionized its Postgres cloud platform by replacing Kubernetes StatefulSets with custom PatroniSets, significantly enhancing stability, reliability, and cost efficiency, all while keeping customer services entirely uninterrupted.
Replacing nginx with Axum (9 minute read)

This article discusses replacing nginx with Axum, emphasizing Axum's ease of use for developers familiar with its Rust-based framework. It covers practical examples like hosting static sites and setting up reverse proxies with authentication and SSL using Rust libraries. The author highlights Axum's advantages for straightforward server management and deployment, suggesting it as a developer-friendly alternative to traditional server configuration tools like nginx.
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Quick Links

How the Argo Project Is Avoiding WordPress-Type Problems (3 minute read)

The Argo Project ensures that no single company can control its direction or change its open-source license by balancing governance across various stakeholders, including end-user companies and vendors.
Three steps in mapping out your modern platform strategy (3 minute read)

As AI adoption accelerates, organizations are recognizing the need to modernize their developer platforms to meet evolving demands.

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