Newsletter 6

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Technology

Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Distrobox uses podman or docker to create containers using the Linux distribution of your choice.

👾 Datadog finds serverless computing is going mainstream

Datadog has found that serverless computing could be entering the mainstream with over half of all organizations using serverless on one of the three major clouds – Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

👾 The Murena One shows exactly how hard it is to de-Google your smartphone

An Android phone without Google. No Google apps, no Google Play Services, no peppy Google Assistant. No Google surveillance and data snooping, no incessant ad targeting, no feeling like privacy is a pointless exercise.

👾 This book made me fall in love with electronics all over again

Book: Open Circuits - The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components by Windell Oskay and Eric Schlaepfer

👾 Graviton 3: First Impressions

AWS Graviton 3 was the first ARM CPU to introduce the SVE instruction set to a widely accessible server CPU.

Engineering

👾 A Design Analysis of Cloud-based Microservices Architecture at Netflix

A comprehensive system design analysis of microservices architecture at Netflix to power its global video streaming services.

👾 KubeCon EU 2022 – Trends & Highlights

KubeCon EU 2022 hot takes.

👾 Nginx proxy manager

Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface.

👾 Bootstrapping clusters with EKS Blueprints

EKS Blueprints is a collection of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules that will help you configure and deploy consistent, EKS clusters across accounts and regions.

👾 Proper use of Git tags

Tag specific points in a repository’s history.