TLDR DevOps 2024-06-26

To ship better software, API producers and consumers need to be able to share, discover, and reuse high-quality API assets.

Postman revolutionizes the experience of collaborative API development with Postman Collections and Workspaces.

Used together, they enable API design, testing, and documentation while providing a shared canvas for collaborating on API assets.

Learn how companies like Cvent, Visma, Built Technologies, and Amadeus use Postman to collaborate more easily and deliver higher-quality APIs.

SUSE has announced new capabilities across its Linux, cloud native, and edge solutions aimed at enhancing enterprise flexibility and reducing operational costs. Key updates include extended support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, advancements in container management with Rancher Prime and NeuVector Prime, and enhancements to cloud native virtualization.

Kubecost's 2.3 release introduces major improvements including a new Efficiency Dashboard for pinpointing Kubernetes cost waste across clusters, accelerated data ingestion speeds, PostgreSQL integration for seamless data export to BI tools, and the ability to configure custom SMTP servers for air-gapped network notifications.

Netflix enhanced its load shedding strategy to the service level, prioritizing critical user requests to improve system resilience and user experience. This shift allows more efficient use of resources by handling request prioritization directly within individual services, ensuring high reliability and performance during traffic spikes.

This article explains the benefits of using Git rebasing to clean up commit histories and maintain a linear project timeline. The author describes their personal rebasing workflow, which includes squashing temporary commits and resolving conflicts to streamline changes before merging them into the main branch. They also highlight the practicality of using rebasing to test commits incrementally to ensure stability.

This blog post shows five ways Amazon Q Developer can help you work with CloudFormation for template code generation, querying CloudFormation resource requirements, explaining existing template code, understanding deployment options and issues, and querying CloudFormation documentation.

This article provides a detailed explanation of how Slack's security team detects and mitigates the risk of stolen session cookies, a common method used by attackers to gain unauthorized access to systems.

This is an in-depth post-mortem of an operational failure in large-scale Elasticsearch installation in Kubernetes that details the unexpected incidents, provides a root cause analysis, and discusses the subsequent fixes and learnings.

Meta has introduced an AI-assisted root cause analysis system that speeds up system reliability investigations.

GitHub Actions now includes Docker Build Summary, which presents aggregated build information and performance metrics like build duration and cache utilization, enhancing visibility and insights into your builds.

Argo Rollouts now supports the new Kubernetes Gateway API, enabling canary deployments on Kubernetes using various ingress, gateway, or service mesh configurations through a single setup.