Plus a new model for building Linux services, .NET Core 3.1, and more.
StatusCode Covering the week's news in software development, infrastructure, ops, platforms, and performance. | Amazon are currently holding their re:Invent conference which means a flood of new releases and previews are coming out. We're including some of the more code-oriented ones here, but they have a list of releases so far on their blog too. — Peter Cooper, editor |
| The Advent of Code 2019 — If you have a little time each day to do some programming challenges, you could do a lot worse than the Advent of Code which is now in its fifth year. I've really enjoyed the puzzles so far and there's even a sub-Reddit where people discuss their solutions. The Advent of Code |
| BPF: A New Type of Software? — BPF (and eBPF) was originally designed to capture and filter network packets using various rules, but you can use the interface they provide with the kernel to do other things too (under what Brendan calls a 'new model of programming') such as intelligent load balancing, DDoS mitigation, observability, and more. You'll learn a lot here. Brendan Gregg |
 Next Release Is DevOps for Your Release Notes — Next Release automates creating, sharing, and distributing release notes and changelogs based on your existing GitHub pull requests. With tons of configuration options. Next Release |
| AWS Introduces The Concept of 'Local Zones' — Are AWS's usual regions and availability zones just a little too distant for your use cases? Local Zones are a new concept in the AWS system where certain services will be provided in a specific geographic area (in this case Los Angeles) but managed via the 'parent' region (in this case US West (Oregon)). Jeff Barr (AWS) |
| AWS Outposts Let You Bring AWS In-House — If 'local zones' aren't local enough for you, AWS has also released Outposts, basically racks of AWS hardware you can bring in-house to your own data center. Don't expect this to be cheap though! Jeff Barr (AWS) |
| DevOps Engineer at X-Team (Remote) — Work with the world's leading brands, from anywhere. Travel the world while being part of the most energizing community of developers. X-Team |
| Find a Job Through Vettery — Make a profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers. Vettery is completely free for job seekers. Vettery |
| A Guide to Distributed Teams — Two VPs (of Splice and Buffer, respectively) have put together a collection of thoughts on how to foster and grow happy, efficient teams who may be located around the world. Juan Pablo Buriticá and Katie Womersley |
| ▶ Discussing gRPC with Mark Rendle — Don't do .NET? Doesn't matter. I quite enjoyed this recent podcast episode that digs into just what gRPC is all about and why it's so much faster than older RPC mechanisms like SOAP. The .NET Core Podcast podcast |
| 0.30000000000000004 — How different languages deal with the '0.1 + 0.2 not equalling exactly 0.3' problem. Erik Wiffin |
| A Guide to Helm 3 with a Node.js Express Microservice — Helm is a package management tool for the Kubernetes ecosystem. 'Charts' are basically the packages/pre-packaged apps it can work with, and this tutorial covers creating a chart for an Express.js service. Alex Ellis |
| Amazon Athena Adds Support for Running SQL Queries Across Multiple Sources — You can now run SQL queries across data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources – so just imagine running a query joining S3, Redshift, CloudWatch, MySQL, DynamoDB, etc. Currently in preview in one AWS region for now, but this could be a big deal. Amazon Web Services |
| Amazon Fraud Detector — Yes, yet another new AWS service and yet another built around machine-learning. This time, you upload your historical fraud datasets to S3 and Fraud Detector will advise you to potential threats over time. Amazon Web Services |
| Django 3.0 Released — The popular Python webapp framework steps forward into a new major release with MariaDB support, ASGI support (opening the option of using Django in an asynchronous way), and lots of deprecations. Django Project |
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