Weekend long read suggestions 2020/02

Happy 2020!

Elixir

• Piping Phoenix Contexts

  Basically sagas within your application. If you are interested in the actual sagas for distributed computing, check excellent Introducing Sage — a Sagas pattern implementation in Elixir.

• Elixir: What about tests?

  Overview of Bypass and Mox for mocking API responses in your Elixir tests.

• RTypes Data Generators

  Article describes new addition to RTypes library for generating arbitrary examples based on type definitions.

• Demo of distributed Elixir with libcluster and DNS

  An example project showing a node discovery with DNSPoll trategy from libcluster.

Go

• eris: a better way to handle, trace, and log errors in Go

  Basic error wrapping was added in Go 1.13, but it omitted user-friendly Wrap methods and built-in stack tracing. Other error packages provide some of the features found in eris but without flexible control over error output formatting. This package provides default string and JSON formatters with options to control things like separators and stack trace output.

Infrastructure

• kubectl plugin to browse Kubernetes object hierarchies as a tree

  A kubectl plugin to explore ownership relationships between Kubernetes objects through ownersReferences on them.

• A fast kubectl autocompletion with fzf

• How the Department of Defense Moved to Kubernetes and Istio - Nicolas Chaillan

  Nicolas shows how they have introduced Kubernetes to Depart of Defense. Interestingly, they are using k8s for deployment of sw to the actual F16 fighter jet. Interesting discussion after the talk. A lot of stuff is available at https://dccscr.dsop.io/dsop.

• Investigating PrivEsc Methods in AWS

  Overview of several (21) ways how to gain priviledged access to AWS resources/account.

• Cloud-native Redis server implemented in Elixir

  Cloud-native strong consistent masterless high available Redis implemented in Elixir.

Rust

• Learn Rust the Dangerous Way

  Deep-dive into some of the features of Rust.

General

• Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API

  Set of practices you should follow when designing API. Such as (machine) consumable error responses, proper use of http error codes and much more.

• lilith

  A POSIX-like x86-64 kernel and userspace written in Crystal.

• Computer Networks: A Systems Approach

  Complete text of seminal book available under CC BY 4.0.