Weekend long read suggestions 2019/49
Elixir
Broadway, RabbitMQ, and the Rise of Elixir Part 2
Second (and seems to be final) part of nicely written blog series about using Broadway for processing events from RabbitMQ.
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Fred looks at past 10 years of his engagement with Erlang. Article presents very nice overview of the progress of the ecosystem.
Infrastructure
A visual guide on troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments
Beautifully done guide for troubleshooting your k8s deployments.
An Expert’s Guide to Slony Replication for PostgreSQL
Potentially getting obsolete thanks to build-in replication, but interesting article summarizing some of the not-so-obvious architectures for PostgreSQL replication.
Experimental Kubernetes Operator kit written in Rust
New take on writing operator for Kubernetes in Rust.
Observability Pipelines at Kubecon
There seems to be a new buzzword in the wilds – the observability pipeline. Good news is that OpenTelemetry is moving and there will be no shortage of open tools for observing your clusters.
Learning
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Nice summary of learnings from Buffer about them being a distributed company. Definitely couple things there for our handbook as well.
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Amnesty International’s view on treatment of human rights by companies like Facebook and Google.
Introducing our Startup Handbook
Interesting free book from versionone VS summarizing their experience around building teams; building organizations; and building investor base from about 100 startups they have invested in.