I decided to reflect on articles that I read in recent years. This list doesn’t contain books. Here is year 2023.
Top themes: Heavy AWS focus (10 articles), containers/DevOps (6, mostly from iximiuz.com), and the beginning of AI/LLM interest (5 articles including ChatGPT and Copilot).
AWS / Cloud#
- Principals in AWS IAM
- AWS configuration files, explained
- boto3 Sessions, and Why You Should Use Them
- You only need to call aws sso login once for all your profiles
- How to Connect Your On-Premises Active Directory to AWS Using AD Connector
- IAM Policies and Bucket Policies and ACLs! Oh, My! (Controlling Access to S3 Resources)
- How to prioritize IAM Access Analyzer findings
- Scaling security and compliance
- Challenges when implementing an AWS multi-account strategy
- Ensuring Business Continuity with the AWS DR Strategies – Part 1: Backup and Restore
Containers / Kubernetes / DevOps#
- How Docker Build Command Works Internally
- Learning Containers From The Bottom Up
- How Kubernetes Reinvented Virtual Machines (in a good sense)
- How “It works in my machine” turns “It works in my container”?
- DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering
- Deploy Consul cluster peering locally with Minikube
Linux / Processes#
- Dealing with process termination in Linux (with Rust examples)
- How to on starting processes (mostly in Linux)
SRE / Observability#
- Simplifying SLOs and SLIs
- The infinite hows
- The SPACE of Developer Productivity
- From “The Goal” to “The Phoenix Project”: a Rediscovery of Passion
Security#
- Accessing and dumping Jenkins credentials
- Fake ransomware gang targets U.S. orgs with empty data leak threats
- Safety and Soundness in Rust
AI / LLM#
- Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript
- All the Hard Stuff Nobody Talks About when Building Products with LLMs
- Why AI is incredibly smart – and shockingly stupid
- Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT
- How to use GitHub Copilot: Prompts, tips, and use cases
Python#
Networking / Protocols#
- What are OAuth 2 and OpenID Connect (OIDC)?
- BGP Route Leak prevention and detection with the help of the RFC9234
- Message broker selection cheat sheet: Kafka vs RabbitMQ vs Amazon SQS
Productivity / Management / Soft Skills#
- “I” Message
- Recipe for increasing your productivity
- How to be an effective engineer?
- Make It Safe for Employees to Speak Up — Especially in Risky Times
- Bad Is Stronger Than Good