Weekly Retro

10 things that stuck with me in tech and business

I decided to move the Weekly Retro to wednesday as I find it increasingly hard to post this on sundays. So here we go …

• Openblocks: the open source Retool alternative.

  

• Kubeshark: The API traffic viewer for Kubernetes providing deep visibility into all API traffic and payloads going in, out and across containers and pods inside a Kubernetes cluster. Think TCPDump and Wireshark re-invented for Kubernetes

  

• Writing Tests with GitHub Copilot: How to write a relatively repetitive collection of tests with the help of GitHub Copilot

• Kite is saying farewell: “We failed to build a business because our product did not monetize, and it took too long to figure that out.”

  

• The modern observability problem: Debugging an application in a single process tends to be easy 💪 and most of what goes wrong with our monoliths will already be recorded as known problems, with standard solutions. We may even have automated their fixes. But if not, we know there are finite routes through the application, and that tracing the cause of most problems is relatively trivial.

  

• Microservice Security Design Patterns for Kubernetes (Series): In this multi-part blog series you will learn some microservice security design patterns to implement micro-segmentation and deep inspection in the interior of your Kubernetes cluster to further secure your microservice applications, not just the cluster. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.
  

  

• Tdarr, distributed transcoding system: Tdarr provides distributed transcode automation using FFmpeg/HandBrake + Audio/Video library analytics + video health checking (Windows, macOS, Linux & Docker)

  

• Tubearchivist: Your self hosted YouTube media server

  

• 11 VSCode Keyboard Shortcuts / VS Code Key Bindings

  

• Hardening unused domains: Even if a domain is not intended to be used for email, whether it being inbound (receiving) or outbound (sending) email, it is still recommended to apply proper email hardening techniques to prevent the domain from being abused for fraudulent activities.