Weekly Digest – Week 5, 2021
Articles and News
Slack’s Outage on January 4th, 2021
A postmortem by Slack on the outage from the beginning of January, caused by the overload of one of their AWS transit gateway.
https://slack.engineering/slacks-outage-on-january-4th-2021/
#slack #post-mortem
Architecture.md
Adding a document that describes the high-level architecture is a useful thing to add to your project.
https://matklad.github.io/2021/02/06/ARCHITECTURE.md.html
#software-architecture #documentation
Internet of Trash
»’Move fast and break things’ is not a tenable paradigm for this industry today — if it ever was. In the light of our experience, with the outcomes of an industry that became fixated on pumping out minimally viable products, it’s a paradigm that heads towards what we could conventionally label as criminal negligence.«
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/02/03/the-internet-of-trash/
#iot #maintainance #iot-security
A Devil of a Time: How Vulnerable is NTP to Malicious Timeservers?
This paper shows that NTP is vulnerable to attacks by malicious NTP servers.
#ntp
Analyzing gRPC Messages Using Wireshark
This post explains how to parse plain text gRPC messages in Wireshark.
https://grpc.io/blog/wireshark/
#wireshark #network-protocol-analyzer #grpc
Threat Modeling Manifesto
The Threat Modeling Manifesto provides guidelines with values and principles in threat modeling.
https://www.threatmodelingmanifesto.org/
#threat-modeling #security
Cargo Cult Software Engineering
This article differentiates between process-oriented and commitment-oriented projects and their imposter equivalents.
https://stevemcconnell.com/articles/cargo-cult-software-engineering/
#cargo-cult #software-engineering
Donating Docker Distribution to the CNCF
Docker donates the code of it’s container registry to the CNCF.
https://www.docker.com/blog/donating-docker-distribution-to-the-cncf/
#cncf #docker-inc #docker
PostgreSQL: What is a Checkpoint?
This blog post explains what checkpoints in PostgreSQL are and how you can tune them.
https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/postgresql-what-is-a-checkpoint/
#postgresql
The Dunant subsea cable, connecting the US and mainland Europe, is ready for service
Crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the US and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, the Dunant submarine cable system delivering a capacity of 250 terabits per second.
Projects and Releases
Debian 10.8
»This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems.«
https://www.debian.org/News/2021/20210206
#debian #type:release
Ubuntu Core 20
Canonical released Ubuntu Core 20, it’s minimal, containerized version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-core-20-secures-linux-for-iot
#type:release #ubuntu #iot #canonical
https://distrotest.net/
On https://distrotest.net/, over 300 different operating systems can be tested from within the browser or via a VNC client.
#linux-distribution
Book: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Operating Systems book centered around the concepts of virtualization, concurrency, and persistence.
https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/#book-chapters
:wq