Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Join the hosts as they explore the importance of small containers in Kubernetes and the evolution of DockerSlim, discussing strategies for minimizing container size. They also touch on the challenges of diversity programs in tech, the significance of secure container images, and comparing Kafka with gnats for event streaming.

Discussion on AI trends in tech, gamifying code security, OpenSSF Scorecards for GitHub repos, improving security posture, automating secure repositories, creative tech naming origins, and nerdy conference excitement

The podcast delves into building, testing, and running a versatile load balancer that can operate anywhere. Topics include navigating startup infrastructure decisions, transitioning to FireHydrant for alerting, managing infrastructure with Kong products, challenges in Kubernetes upgrades, designing for failure in infrastructure, exploring a GPT scripting language, and discussing conventional commits and threat modeling for security.

Discover the challenges of managing infrastructure miles away in space, a $25 million deep fake heist, and insights into software development for satellites. Explore the intricacies of software supply chain in space tech, upcoming launch week for Century, and the integration of Minecraft in space with young engineers.

The podcast discusses building containers without using Docker, including the process, challenges, and testing practices. They also explore the relationship between Terraform modules and the app co binary, as well as the comparison between Nats and Kafka. The use of AI and satellite imagery to fight spatial apartheid in South Africa is also highlighted. The hosts express their gratitude to listeners and outline their goals for the show.

This is our 9th Kaizen with Adam & Jerod. We start today’s conversation with the most important thing: embracing change. For Gerhard, this means putting Ship It on hold after this episode. It also means making more time to experiment, maybe try a few of those small bets that we recently talked about with Daniel. Kaizen will continue, we are thinking on the Changelog. Stick around to hear the rest. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with extended episodes, make the ads disappear, and increment your audio quality with higher bitrate mp3s. Let’s do this! Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XGerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes:All episode notes are in 🐙 GitHub discussion changelog.com#440. Feel free to add your thoughts / questions! Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Tim McNamara is known as New Zealand’s Rust guy. He is the author of Rust in Action, and also a Senior Software Engineer at AWS, where he helps other builders with all things Rust. The main reason why Gerhard is intrigued by Rust is the incredible resource frugality. Fewer CPUs means less energy used, which is good for the planet, and good for the monthly bill. This becomes most noticeable at Amazon’s scale, when S3, Lambda, CloudFront and other services start adding Rust components. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with extended episodes, make the ads disappear, and increment your audio quality with higher bitrate mp3s. Let’s do this! Featuring:Tim McNamara – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, XGerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes: 📝 Why Discord is Switching from Go to Rust 🎬 Rust is interesting, but does it really make sense for me? - AWS re:Invent 2022 - Tim McNamara 📝 Optimizing 700 CPUs Away With Rust - Alan Ning, SRE at Tenable.io 📊 Lambda Cold Starts analysis by maxday 📝 Sustainability with Rust - AWS Open Source Blog 📝 How automated reasoning helps Amazon S3 innovate at scale - S3 ShardStore Rust Rust on AWS Rust Nation 2023 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In our ops & infra world, we learn to optimise for redundancy, for mean time to recovery and for graceful degradation. We instinctively recognise single points of failure, and try to mitigate the risks associated with them. For some years now, Daniel Vassallo has been doing the same, but in the context of life & work. Daniel talks about the role of randomness, about learning from small wins & about optimising for a lifestyle that matches your true preferences. Apparently, ideas too should be treated like cattle, not pets. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Changelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with extended episodes, make the ads disappear, and increment your audio quality with higher bitrate mp3s. Let’s do this! Featuring:Daniel Vassallo – Website, XGerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes: Creator Spotlight: Daniel Vassallo’s Success on Gumroad Small Bets The Good Parts of AWS Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts 🎧 Mastering the Lifestyle-First Approach 🎬 Building a Portfolio of Small Bets with Daniel Vassallo - The Bootstrapped Founder #166 Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Last September, at the 🇨🇭 Swiss Cloud Native Day, Florian Forster, co-founder & CEO of ZITADEL, talked about why they switched to serverless containers. ZITADEL has a really interesting workload that is both CPU intensive and latency sensitive. On top of this, their users are global, and traffic is bursty. Florian talks about how they evaluated AWS, GCP & Azure before they settled on the platform that met their requirements. Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. The Changelog – Conversations with the hackers, leaders, and innovators of the software world Featuring:Florian Forster – GitHub, LinkedIn, XGerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes: 🎬 Why We Switched to Serverless Containers - Swiss Cloud Native Day, September 2022 🎬 What is the fuzz around serverless (containers)? - Open Source @ Siemens, May 2022 🔬 Self-host ZITADEL on Knative 🐙 github.com/zitadel/zitadel Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Lars is big on Elixir. Think apps that scale really well, tend to be monolithic, and have one of the most mature deployment models: self-contained releases & built-in hot code reloading. In episode 7, Gerhard talked to Lars about “Why Kubernetes”. There is a follow-up YouTube stream that showed how to automate deploys for an Elixir app using K3s & ArgoCD. More than a year later, how does Lars think about running applications in production? What does simple & straightforward mean to him? Gerhard’s favourite: what is “human scale deployments”? Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 6 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring:Lars Wikman – Website, GitHub, XGerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes: 🎧 shipit.show/7 - Why Kubernetes? 🎬 k3s & ArgoCD with Elixir 📝 Deploying with K3s & ArgoCD 📝 Fundamentals & deployment Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!