The beginning of each month is usually the time when you're being charged for all your subnoscriptions.

So, it's also a good time for me to remind you that you can subscribe to Come Back Alive - one of the biggest and well-known charity foundations in Ukraine!

#donations #Ukraine

Today, I would like to present to you The Dark Side of SRE.

Basically, this is a yet another article on the things that sucks at work. Things like stress from the incidents, continuous context switch, the need to use multiple technologies and thus inability to become an expert in one, and so on...

I disagree with some points made in this article. Specifically:

- Operational Treadmill:
this where Platform Engineering shines. The whole idea of PE is to switch from the reactive operational approach to the proactive
product-focused approach (OPS still exists in this paradigm, tho)

- The Limited Career Progression: I didn't get this point at all. An SRE can become a manager just as any other engineer if they wish. Obviously, being a manager requires a completely different skill set. However, this point almost sounds like the author was denied a promotion and now is sour about it.

Yet, this article has an interesting document
linked - an instruction from Google SREs on what to expect from an SRE
position outside Google. It's hilarious, TBH. This document shows once again how inconsistent are the noscripts across the industry. Especially, when it comes to the OPS roles.

#culture #sre

I usually do not post event announcements, but there are two exceptions.

One of them is DevOps Days Ukraine! This year we have a topic of Disaster Recovery.

I'm one of the organizers of this conference, and we are going to have the next one very soon: on the 14-15th of September, with some amazing speakers from the industry.

The conference is online, so you can join from anywhere in the world! Just keep in mind that the conference is held in the Kyiv timezone.

See you there!

#event

I have updated my article on triggering GHA workflows with comments.

Recently, I have found another caveat that has really bitten me in the ass. You can look for the keywords UPD 2023-09-07 on the page.

As usual, you can read it:

- In my blog
- On Substack

#cicd #github

If you have AWS Lambdas in Go, you likely know that AWS is going to deprecate the go1.x runtime and forces its users to migrate to the generic al2.provided runtime.

The premise is that the new runtime is more performant. However, here is an article that argues why this move is bad for Go users on AWS as well as goes through some caveats you may encounter during the migration.

#go #aws #serverless

Welcome a new issue of the CatOps Digest!

#digest #newsletter

My German teacher (he's Ukrainian, he just teaches me German :D ) is raising funds for an auto for the 36th Brigade of the AFU.

Monobank jar: https://send.monobank.ua/jar/3a2A4R2P8g

P.S. It looks like Monobank has some issues processing international cards. At least, I wasn't able to replenish this jar from 2 different cards :\

This book bundle by O’Reilly mostly contains books on the software architecture, but you may find some microservice-related books there that may be of your interest.

#books

DevOps Days Ukraine is happening tomorrow!

Make sure to register if you haven't done it already! We have a lot of great speakers!

Also, we have open spaces! Open spaces are basically the same thing as our CatOps voice chat. Well, actually, CatOps voice chat is based on the DOD open spaces!

See you tomorrow at 6pm (Kyiv time)!

At last! A new episode of the CatOps Voice chat (in Ukrainian) is here!

This time we spoke about pet-projects as well as marketing of the open source technologies.

As a bonus you can learn what ML and wine have in common 😉

You can listen to this episode on:

- YouTube
- Spotify
- Apple Podcasts (the episode hasn’t appeared there yet for some reason)
- Google Podcasts
- Substack

Enjoy!

#говорилка

​​"Winter is coming" as the House of Stark used to put it.

Yet, we can prepare ourselves. The Come Back Alive foundation together with Nova Posta are running the "Protect the Sky" fundraiser.

The goal is to raise 330M UAH (8,9M USD) for Air Defense and mobile command posts.

About the half of the goal is reached.

#donations #Ukraine

Some time ago, there was a story of a programmer who held the entire Ukrainian customs service as a hostage, because he was the only one familiar with the obscure codebase (that he has created himself).

Unfortunately, this is not a single case over the industry. When a Programmer Holds the Code Hostage tells a similar story that, frankly, could happen at any company.

What are the takeaways? Appeasement doesn't work. It takes some courage and will from the management to identify and successfully address the situation. There are even some tips on how to do it in the end.

#culture

If you want to know what an IDP (Internal Developer Portal) is, but at this point you are too afraid to ask; this article is for you!

It goes through some core features of an IDP and describes why those exist and how can one benefit from them.

Yes, I must admit that this is a marketing article and eventually they will try to sell you their service. However, you don’t have to buy anything to read it!

#idp

A new issue of the CatOps Digest is here!

#digest #newsletter

​​For today’s Donations Monday I would like to remind you about Pavlo and Naya, who raise funds for AFU since the start of the full-scale invasion. Their this week’s goal is 310974 UAH .

- Pavlo’s requisites
- Naya’s requisites

#donations #Ukraine

O’Reilly is being on a streak now!

Right after the Software Architecture book bundle, we’ve got the Cybersecurity Month bundle!

As usual, you can pay different amount of money to unlock different number of books. But still, the whole amount is probably less than the individual price for some of the noscripts.

#books #humblebundle

Death by a thousand microservices.

You can consider it to be yet another “old tech guy yells at cloud” article, but it has ratio in it.

Yet, I wouldn’t say that we have to throw away the whole idea of distributed systems. Distributed systems is the reason why I still have a job!

So, I would rather read this piece as a “memento mori” article, a reminder that we have to take things in moderation.

For example, there’s an idea of having a “trunk” monolith supported by a handful of additional smaller services. I know a company that does just that and you know what? They’re fine!

#friday #culture

A couple of days ago I got together with amazing people to record an episode of the DeadOps Show (in Ukrainian).

Initially we wanted to talk about the hero culture but somehow the conversation slipped into the topic of burnouts.

So here you are. Yet another episode about the thing that never gets old.

#podcast

​​The beginning a month is the time when you topically get charged for your subnoscriptions.

So, I am once again asking you to enroll in a monthly subnoscription to the Come Back Alive foundation.

#donations #Ukraine