Musings and Mutterings through the Machines

Eleven Links of Note - January 11th, 2025

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The Boyfriend to Barbara pipeline is a tale as old as time
♬ original sound - Amelia Samson

Stateful workload operator: stateful systems on Kubernetes at LinkedIn: Scaling stateful systems on Kubernetes is hard, as LinkedIn found. This is how they did it.
Introducing Multiple Registry Support on DigitalOcean Container Registry: New product feature from DigitalOcean, for teams requiring more than one container registry.
Launch jobs on Ansible Automation Platform with Terraform actions: An integration of Terraform with Ansible Automation Platform.
The Git Workflow That Kills Productivity (And How Rust Teams Do It Right): TLDR; they use trunk development.
The End of the Sync Script: Infrastructure as Intent: It makes it much easier for DevOps to scale.
The 1MB Password: Crashing Backends via Hashing Exhaustion: Even with strong passwords requirements, password authentication can be brought down by this form of brute force attack.
Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on: Cloud migration is harder than you think.
Mac mini, the little Mac that could, is 21 years old: I love my Mac Mini.
NASA orders “controlled medical evacuation” from the International Space Station: This sounds like a plot point from Pluribus
The Reproducible Fortress: Proxmox as Code with Terraform & Ansible: Another Terraform and Ansible team-up, this time for standing up LXC instances on Proxmox.
Trails: An awesome use of AI. Being able to synthesize themes among multiple books quickly and easily makes for getting notable insights from literature.