Ubuntu 20.04 is here

Plus handy database knowledge, using PowerShell on UNIX, and command line video editing.

#264 — April 29, 2020 Read on the Web StatusCode Weekly Covering the week's news in software development, ops, platforms, and tooling. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Released — Lots of goodies in the latest Ubuntu release which will surely form the basis for many a server over the next several years (its standard support will end in April 2025). Some related info: It uses Linux kernel 5.4 which introduces WireGuard VPN support and kernel lockdown. Phoronix have run tons of Ubuntu 18.04 vs 20.04 benchmarks on a 48 core Xeon server and found significant performance improvements for server use cases. There's also Lubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu MATE 20.04 and Xubuntu 20.04 if you prefer alternative desktop environments. People are still frustrated by snaps, but you can disable them. Canonical Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases — A Google engineer shares 17 insights about databases she's picked up over the years. I strongly recommend this piece and I identify with lots of the points myself.. Jaana B. Dogan Audit Every SQL Query — JackDB is a modern database client with comprehensive audit logging and role-based access controls. Learn more about auditing database operations with JackDB. JackDB, Inc. sponsor How The Final Python 2 Release Marks the End of an Era — Last week we casually slipped in a note about 2.7.18 being Python 2's final release but.. maybe it deserved a bigger story than that. Luckily Stack Overflow's Ryan Donovan is here with one. Ryan Donovan AMP Introduces 'User-Friendly' Content Encryption Support — AMP aims to be all about providing speed to mobile consumers of content but paywalls just, well, get in the way. So Google and the AMP folks have come up with a way where protected content can be served and unlocked client-side for more performance. Cynically, of course, you could consider this yet another form of DRM for Web content.. The AMP Blog Quick bytes: DigitalOcean has taken another step forward with a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) offering so you can create numerous private networks. Another week, another new AWS region.. this time in Milan, Italy. Not bad considering it's been under lockdown for the past couple of months. Allegedly, around 90% of content gets no traffic from Google. Got a overheating MacBook Pro? Consider charging it up on the right, rather than the left.. (yes, there is some logic to this.) Esteemed e-ziner Julia Evans has released her latest zine on How Containers Work. 💻 Jobs Find a Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery DevOps Engineer at X-Team (Remote) — Join the most energizing community for developers. Work from anywhere with the world's leading brands. X-Team ℹ️ Interested in running a job listing in StatusCode Weekly? There's more info here. 📕 Stories and Opinions Two Months with PowerShell on a UNIX — You can't use it as a login shell yet, but otherwise Microsoft's PowerShell (which is more commonly associated with Windows) isn't too bad. Joe Wright 'Teleforking' a Process Onto a Different Computer — Imagine if instead of calling fork you could call telefork and have a process forked onto other machines within a cluster.. this developer rigged up a fun prototype. Tristan Hume ▶  Discussing Serverless Use Cases with Gareth McCumskey — A chat with Gareth McCumskey (of Serverless Inc) about different production-level serverless use cases including RESTful APIs, GraphQL, WebSockets, and capturing clickstream data. The Serverless Chats Podcast podcast How Twitter Engineers Hunted Down a Linux Kernel Bug — When two Twitter engineers reset a Linux server's firewall config, they expected things to work.. but it didn't, and they unearthed (and fixed!) a kernel bug along the way. Cong Wang and Dan Luu (Twitter) To Microservices and Back Again: Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith — When Segment moved to a microservices architecture, they gained environmental isolation, but at a cost of higher operational overhead. Three years later, the costs were too high, and the team migrated back to a monolith.. Thomas Betts and Alexandra Noonan How Mozilla Engineers Code Quality in the Firefox Browser — An insider's look at Firefox's code quality toolchain that's been designed to manage the ongoing development and releases of the popular desktop browser. Mozilla Hacks 📖 Tutorials The Tool That Really Runs Your Containers: Deep Dive Into runc and OCI Specifications — runc is a container runtime that was extracted from Docker over the years and is now maintained separately but which still does the work of spawning and running containers. Kirill Shirinkin Decoupling Larger Applications with Amazon EventBridge — How to use an event-based architecture to decouple services and functional areas of applications. (EventBridge is AWS's serverless app-to-app event bus.) James Beswick (AWS) The Complete Guide to Distributed Tracing Lightstep sponsor ▶  Discussing Docker and Kubernetes with Kelsey Hightower — A worthwhile show to listen to if Kubernetes and Docker intimidate you but you want to know a little more. Kelsey is good at breaking these things down into understandable pieces. Rails with Jason Podcast podcast A Variety of C Obfuscation Tricks — C is, like many languages, well suited to trickery and here's a look at some of it. Colin Ian King 🛠 Code and Tools Will It CORS? — A handy online tool/wizard for establishing how your (potential) use case will (or won't!) operate alongside CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing). HTTP Toolkit sls-dev-tools v1.0: Think DevTools But for Serverless — "Think Chrome Dev Tools but for Serverless" say the team behind sls-dev-tools. They work with AWS Lambda and alongside tools like Serverless Framework or SAM. Theodo IPFS 0.5.0 Released: A Major Leap Forward for Peer to Peer Kind — IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) is perhaps the best known peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol and it has been seeing some high profile adoption as shown here. Molly Mackinlay The Super Simple AWS Storage Calculator — A quick way to compare how much it costs to store certain amounts of data on various AWS services at differing levels of robustness. The Duckbill Group Faster CI/CD for All Your Software Projects Using Buildkite — See how Shopify scaled from 300 to 1800 engineers while keeping their build times under 5 minutes. Buildkite sponsor Windows Terminal Preview v0.11 Release — A lot of updates here for Microsoft's official terminal app prior to an even bigger 1.0 release. Microsoft MsQuic: Microsoft Open Sources Its QUIC Library — A cross-platform, general-purpose library that implements the QUIC transport protocol. GitHub repo. Daniel Havey (Microsoft) Editly: Slick, Declarative Command Line Video Editing — I've long wondered why there isn't a good way to "code" video editing at the command line other than wrangling with arcane ffmpeg options. Well.. this uses ffmpeg, but it handles a lot of the wrangling for you. Mikael Finstad Pomerium: An Identity-Aware Secure Access Proxy — An identity aware access-proxy modeled after Google's BeyondCorp. Think VPN access benefits but without the VPN. Built in Go, naturally. Pomerium 98.css: CSS for Building Faithful Recreations of Windows 98 — If for any reason you need your Web site's interface to look like Windows 98… Jordan Scales pxy: A Go Livestream Proxy from WebSocket to External RTMP Endpoints Chua Bing Quan

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