In this article "Solutions to the Lost Update Problem," Sönke Ruempler addresses the challenges of concurrent transactions leading to lost updates in database systems.

https://ruempler.eu/2024/11/25/solutions-to-the-lost-update-problem/

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Define sleep & wake up cycles for your Kubernetes resources. Automatically schedule to shutdown Deployments, CronJobs, StatefulSets and HorizontalPodAutoscalers that occupy resources in your cluster and wake them up only when you need them, reducing that way the overall power consumption.

https://github.com/rekuberate-io/sleepcycles

Chaos snake for Kubernetes. Chaos engineering combined with a classic snake game.

https://github.com/deggja/chaossnake

Lawrence Jones discusses the challenges of ensuring that an incident management system can alert its own team during outages.

https://incident.io/hubs/building-on-call/who-watches-the-watchers

In the article discusses the challenges of maintaining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in a microservices environment. The team redefined their Critical User Journeys (CUJs) and implemented end-to-end (E2E) testing to automate SLO maintenance, resulting in a 99% reduction in maintenance time and immediate impact assessment during incidents.

https://engineering.mercari.com/en/blog/entry/20241204-keeping-user-journey-slos-up-to-date-with-e2e-testing-in-a-microservices-architecture/

Local development for AWS Lambda's and Terraform

https://github.com/uatec/teleform

NVIDIA device plugin for Kubernetes

https://github.com/NVIDIA/k8s-device-plugin

In December 2024, AWS introduced a visual deployment timeline feature for CloudFormation, enhancing the infrastructure-as-code service with real-time visualization of resource provisioning sequences. This timeline offers a graphical representation of the order and duration of resource deployments, providing insights into dependencies and potential bottlenecks.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/12/cloudformation-visual-deployment/

In the article "The Karpenter Transformation," Nadav Buchman from Fiverr Engineering discusses the company's migration of their Kubernetes compute nodes to Karpenter, an open-source Kubernetes node lifecycle manager developed by AWS.
https://medium.com/fiverr-engineering/the-karpenter-transformation-1c278294bd9b

Intelligence for Kubernetes. World's most promising Kubernetes Visualization Tool for Developer and Platform Engineering teams.

https://github.com/KusionStack/karpor

Automate Kubernetes Configuration Editing

https://github.com/kptdev/kpt

In his article "Kubernetes CRD: the versioning joy," Joel Takvorian shares the challenges encountered while evolving the CustomResourceDefinition (CRD) versions for the Network Observability operator.

https://dev.to/jotak/kubernetes-crd-the-versioning-joy-6g0

An extensible framework for application-level data management on Kubernetes, Kanister is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation sandbox project and was originally created by the Veeam Kasten team.

https://github.com/kanisterio/kanister

Find directories where changed terraform_remote_state data source is used

https://github.com/suzuki-shunsuke/tfrstate

In the article "Run security scans on Terraform and OpenTofu projects with Trivy and GitHub Actions," the author provides a hands-on tutorial on integrating security scans into infrastructure-as-code (IaC) workflows using Trivy and GitHub Actions.

https://janik6n.net/posts/run-security-scans-on-terraform-and-opentofu-project-with-trivy-and-github-actions/

The blogpost explores the integration of GitHub Actions with AWS CodeBuild to create self-hosted runners. This approach leverages AWS CodeBuild's managed environment to execute GitHub Actions workflows, offering benefits such as enhanced security, scalability, and cost efficiency.

https://kieranlowe.io/implementing-self-hosted-github-action-runners-using-aws-codebuild

tfocus is a super interactive tool for selecting and executing Terraform plan/apply on specific resources. Think of it as an "emergency tool" - not for everyday use.

https://github.com/nwiizo/tfocus

Kube Startup CPU Boost is a controller that increases CPU resource requests and limits during Kubernetes workload startup time

https://github.com/google/kube-startup-cpu-boost

Managing stateful workloads in Kubernetes can be challenging, especially when ensuring smooth rollouts. This post explores how Slack optimized stateful application deployments to enhance reliability and performance.

https://slack.engineering/kube-stateful-rollouts/