Hey everyone, back with another edition of my writing that is me to you conversation. I love keeping it RAW ;) So it’s been monthly once for a couple of times now, previously due to KCD Mumbai and now because I am getting my apartment ready, so there is a lot of work. I might get little more stuff for my office as well(If you have good pictures/suggestions then do drop them in comments).
So, I have been reading all about Sustainability, creating content around it and learning more about it. Its been fun and at the same time I realise that there is so much that existing organisations can do with their workloads with the existing tools available. When it comes to environment sustainability, people always think of planting more trees, reducing carbon footprint, EV vehicles and other things, it also involves a lot of political discussions. But what if I tell you that as engineers there are certain papers and tooling based off those papers that can help you create a positive impact. Since Im mostly into cloud native and I was introduced to SIG sustainability under CNCF. Since then I have been watching a few sessions, looking out some tools and going deep dive on how to actually use them with your current software/hardware stacks. The tools that I covered were Kube-green and Kepler, I will be exploring more of these as well. If you are in this space and already implemented some of the practices, would love to hear your stories as well and cover those in future.
Whats happening to the Social media?
Social media have gone crazy, specially for the content creators. After the Twitter acquisition, things are not the same and many around the world are trying to build platform.
Above are to name a few that created a buzz, IMO for content creators its becoming difficult as the audience is getting distributed, for me personally I have a few people that I really want to follow due to the tech stuff that they share and they are all over the platforms. Threads have not been impactful, it was a buzz just due to instagram, my Mastodon server has been lovely with tech feed and so is bluesky.
Twitter has been changed to X.com and its crazy of whats happening there, Many features are being introduced which can be good for top creators like the Ad revenue share, subscriptions for closed group opinionated conversations. My person favourite feature if Long posts and longer HD videos, I have been able to write a dump down my thoughts as long posts on Twitter or X platform whatever you want to call it.
Overall I will be staying on all the platforms and sharing content but for X I will be staying more for now due to interesting conversations that I have there.
Whats up on the content side of things ?
This past month of July I did create content for both my English and Hindi Youtube channels.
- Zot registry - OCI native container image registry?- zot is a production-ready, open-source, vendor-neutral container image registry server based purely on OCI standards.
- Kepler Deep Dive- Measure pod energy consumption?- Kepler (Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter) is a Prometheus exporter. It uses eBPF to probe CPU performance counters and Linux kernel tracepoints.These data and stats from cgroup and sysfs can then be fed into ML models to estimate energy consumption by Pods.
- Inspektor gadget deep dive?- Inspektor Gadget is a collection of tools (or gadgets) to debug and inspect Kubernetes resources and applications. It manages the packaging, deployment and execution of eBPF programs in a Kubernetes cluster, including many based on BCC tools, as well as some developed specifically for use in Inspektor Gadget.
On My?Hindi channel?one I created below:
If you would like to hear any of the above topics in English, then do comment and I will definitely consider creating it :)
- Civo Navigate?- I will be in London from 2nd of September till 8th and open to meet folks in London, plus I will be there for the event Civo Navigate and speaking as well. Glad to have great speakers like Kelsey in the list. It will be full packed with knowledge and networking and I am very much excited for it. If you want to hang out, sponsor the event, then do reach me out on the X platform.
- DevOpsDays Bengaluru?- We are back the the DevOpsDays edition in Bengaluru, the?CFP,?Sponsorship?and?ticket sales?all are open so go register and submit your CFP Now!
- Sustainability miniconf - This is in planning, more updates soon.
- KubeDay India?- Very excited for this one, announcement for the date is made, more to follow so stay tuned.
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Awesome reads
- Running llama2.c in WasmEdge?- ML inferencing running as WASm modules is such a dope concept. I did tried the mediapipe-rs using wasmedge runtime.
- Wing Cloud is building an open source, unified cloud programming language?- This is pretty interesting, you can combine infra and runtime code in same language. The interesting thing here is , as you keep writing the code for the infra, it automatically translates into picture view with connections. Plus it translates natively to terraform etc.
- Introducing passwordless authentication on GitHub.com?- GitHub has introduced a public beta of passkey authentication, a passwordless system aimed at enhancing account security and user experience. Passkeys, which are unique to each website, build upon traditional security keys by offering easier configuration and improved recoverability. They can replace passwords and two-factor authentication methods, and can be used across devices. This move brings GitHub closer to achieving passwordless authentication, which could help eliminate password-based data breaches.
- Summary of Upcoming Changes in OCI Image and Distribution Specs v1.1?- The Open Container Initiative (OCI) is set to introduce changes in the OCI Image and Distribution specs v1.1. These changes include official guidance on creating and storing alternative artifacts in the registry, a new manifest field for establishing relationships between objects, and a new registry API endpoint for querying these relationships. The term "OCI 1.1" refers to these changes, which are expected to enhance the creation and discovery of relationships between objects stored in an OCI registry. The changes also include support for zstd compression, extension support in distribution-spec, and anonymous blob mount support, among others.
- Confidential Kubernetes: Use Confidential Virtual Machines and Enclaves to improve your cluster security?- The blog post explores Confidential Computing (CC), a concept aimed at enhancing security and privacy in computing environments, especially within Kubernetes and the Cloud-Native ecosystem. It discusses the role of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), compares different TEE technologies, and highlights use cases and projects that leverage CC, encouraging those working on high-security products to explore and contribute to this field.
- Rethinking infrastructure as code from scratch?- opinionated but interested read, it also talks about winglang that I am excited about.
- Creating an automated meeting minutes generator with Whisper and GPT-4?- it shows how to create meeting minutes generator using Whisper and GPT-4 models. Transcribe using whisper, summarize using ChatGPT and the export as doc.
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Graduation of CRI-O?- Significant mark in the container runtime as CRI-O becomes CNCF graduated.
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation Reaffirms Istio Maturity with Project Graduation?- OSM getting retired and Istio becomes Graduated, one of the quickest projects to become graduated and widely used service mesh.
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