Technology Short Take 159
Published on 2 Sep 2022 · Filed in Information · 714 words (estimated 4 minutes to read)Welcome to Technology Short Take #159! If you’re interested in finding some links to articles around the web on topics like WASM, Git, Sigstore, or EKS—among other things—then you’ve come to the right place. I’ve spent the last few weeks collecting articles I think you’ll find useful, gleaning them from the depths of Twitter, RSS feeds, Reddit, and Slack. Enjoy, and never stop learning!
Networking
- I’m not a Tailscale user (although I do use WireGuard), but this KB article describing how to use Tailscale on AWS App Runner is pretty cool.
- Speaking of WireGuard: here’s a tutorial on setting up WireGuard on Ubuntu (both 20.04 and 22.04 are covered).
- Ivan Pepelnjak laments the sad state of terminology surrounding router interfaces and switch ports.
Servers/Hardware
- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols discusses a leak discovered in Intel SGX. It’s a shame, too…I had high hopes for SGX.
- I found Andrew Meier’s post on his personal infrastructure interesting to read. I stopped doing the homelab thing back in 2016, but it’s still interesting to read about how others do things. Thanks for sharing, Andrew!
Security
- Hayden Blauzvern talks through how organizations with existing infrastructure for signing (here we are referring to signing packages or other artifacts) could potentially incrementally adopt Sigstore.
- Ashley Penney takes a look at SealedSecrets and ExternalSecrets in order to provide a guide for managing secrets in a GitOps environment.
Cloud Computing/Cloud Management
- Syrus Akbary of Wasmer discusses using WebAssembly as a universal binary format in a two-part (so far) blog series (part 1, part 2).
- Eric Evans reviews how to create a serverless AWS EKS cluster using Pulumi.
- EKS News is a great resource for links related to EKS; check out the latest issue (as of this article being written).
- Ian Miell takes a historical journey through the epochs of IT in order to answer the question, “Who should write the Terraform?” Not surprisingly, the answer is “It depends,” but Ian does a good job of explaining what it depends upon.
- Alan Scott discusses options for enforcing policy with Kubernetes, including using your existing CI/CD infrastructure, leveraging Kubernetes’ own admission control functionality, and using tools like OPA/Gatekeeper.
- Lakindu Hewawasam walks readers through managing “micro-stacks” with Pulumi (exports and StackReferences are the key here).
- Engin Diri shows how to enable the Cilium Hubble UI in a Civo k3s cluster.
- Jack Roper shows some best practices and examples for managing Terraform state.
- Kyle Galbraith introduces Depot’s new self-hosted builders.
- Zac Charles takes a closer look at Lambda’s response payload size limit.
Operating Systems/Applications
- Felix Krause caused quite a stir with his revelation that a number of iOS apps are “able to track every single interaction with external websites, from all form inputs like passwords and addresses, to every single tap.” More details are available here.
- Leigh McCulloch shows how to push to multiple remotes at once.
- And while we’re speaking of Git, Nick Janetakis shows how to use
git shortlogto see all kinds of useful information about a repository. - This list of macOS
defaultscommands may be useful for those who like to tweak their systems. - This article by Jacob Davis-Hansson on how your
Makefiles are wrong was informative. Some tips didn’t apply to me (not surprisingly, macOS is stuck with an old version ofmake), but I did learn a few things from the article. - Howard Oakley has a great article on macOS memory (as seen via Activity Monitor).
Programming
- Mat Ryer talks about aligning the happy path to the left edge.
Virtualization
- William Lam provides instructions on manually cleaning up a Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS) on an ESXi host.
- Christian Mohn shares some details on what is expected in vSphere 8. Duncan Epping also has a post on vSphere 8. (There’s probably a bunch more, these are just two that caught my eye.)
Career/Soft Skills
- Sophie Weston lays out the argument for why psychological safety is key for knowledge workers.
- Ofir Sharony says that using a journal can help improve you as a leader or manager.
It’s time to wrap up now; I hope that you found something useful. If you have any feedback (all constructive feedback is welcome!), please feel free to reach out to me. You can find me on Twitter, or in any number of different Slack communities. Thanks for reading!