How to survive stress?

Some personal thoughts along with awesome tech content

Dealing with stress and working can lead to unproductive outcomes. When things go wrong, our mental stress level increases and it just contribute to worsening the situation rather than doing any benefit. Your mind can be your best friend and biggest enemy. Let’s take a situation, you have plans to do things, flights booked in future for some work, work going on and suddenly there is a family emergency. Now, in this scenario, you get stressed and think about 100 different things. What you are not realising here is that even if you worry like hell, stress a lot and keep thinking about what happened, it wont change, the past is gone, today is maybe not in your hands as you need to rely on other folks for the situation to get improved and then tomorrow also you don’t know what’s coming. The best IMO here is to keep yourself calm, not panic and wait for the worse to get over. I have seen the worse getting worst and everything getting over but a few things are not in your hands so over worry wont help you, it will only make it worse for your health as well.

How can you work on this? You can do daily meditation, a few yoga exercises and try to think positive thoughts. Accept the fact that there are a few things beyond our control and past cannot be changed.

Why this in this awesome tech newsletter? at times it’s important to remind that mental health is very important and I also recently suffered all of this feelings so wanted to share with you all.

Anyways, coming to the awesome tech stuff, yes the sustainability week finally happened and Kubesimplify was honoured to host 5 daily streams. My partner in crime Divya Mohan and myself hosted the first 4 and discussed our opinions and thoughts in the fifth one. If you get time, do watch this if you want to know on how you can contribute to green software and also what is happening at the hardware level as well.

Here is the complete playlist for sustainability week.

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Awesome Videos

Awesome Reads

• Curl is seen everywhere except your SBOM, why is it missing even though you use it? : Recently a high severity vulnerability was reported in the project and it is not tracked as part of scanning softwares. Post shows a good overview of why SBOM’s are still not fully usable.
• Docker: How To Debug Distroless And Slim Containers : Awesome post showing four different ways to put the debugging tools back into the distroless or slim containers including nix.
• Cilium Graduation - Cilium which is CNI got graduated and this post include my take as well. It is a highly reliable CNI when it comming to running Kubernetes at massive scales.
• How to set up your Jetson device for LLM inference and fine-tuning - The article discusses setting up a Jetson device for efficient Large Language Model (LLM) inference and fine-tuning, highlighting GPU requirements and software installation steps.
• Bootstrap an Air Gapped Cluster With Kubeadm - The article discusses setting up an air-gapped Kubernetes cluster using Kubeadm on Fedora Linux. It covers the steps to prepare the VM, download and transfer necessary software artifacts, set up networking, and deploy a sample Podinfo application using Helm and Zarf packaging.
• Meet Wolfi: the Linux Distro Designed to Shrink Your Supply Chain - Wolfi is a rolling-release Linux distro built around modularity and re-targetability, which provides primitives useful to meet the supply chain security requirements of modern users.
• HashiCorp CEO predicts OSS-free Silicon Valley unless the open source model evolves - Latest thought on Hashicorp’s license change by Hashicorp’s CEO.
• Get WITtier with this handy guide to Wasm Interface Types - WIT allows WebAssembly modules to communicate with each other using complex data types. WIT is a language agnostic interface definition language (IDL) that enables composing WebAssembly components, regardless of source language, using language-specific bindings. If you're writing your own WIT, then this guide is for you.

Awesome Resources/Repos

• Learn Rust
• tortoise - Shell-Shockingly-Good Kubernetes Autoscaling
• Kube APIs along the time axis of Kube releases
• ?? What happens when I type kubectl run?
• KubeHound - New open source Kubernetes attack mapping tool
• sqlflow - tool to visualize SQL queries.
• Self-Paced Acorn Runtime Workshop

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