Arc Notes Weekly #8: Rogers

This week's post covers the Rogers internet outage, load testing, K8s, and much more!

Fun times to be on the internet (or not) this week. Jam-packed post this week. Load testing your systems, a few discussions around hardware failures, and a couple of posts touching on Kubernetes.

Enjoy this week's round-up!

Mahdi (@myusuf3)

News

Introducing Shadower: A Minimalistic Load Testing Tool

Incredible call out from HN user guessing as to why the recent HN outage happened. We were excited to read the complete RCA. Never buy your disks from identical batches and apparently run them for more than 4.5 years. 

Rogers network resuming after major outage hits millions of Canadians

Cloudflare did a great write up from their perspective you can read about it here https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-view-of-the-rogers-communications-outage-in-canada/

Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation.

12 Ways to Prepare your Monolith Before Transitioning to Microservices

Steps on how you can prepare to move to a monolith points are slightly out of order for me, but definitely worth the read. 

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Remote Development at Slack - Slack Engineering

Interesting movement to remote development. Seems to have been successful at Slack. With VSCode Server release this seems to be a new trend. 

SQL Index Recommendations

Command Line Shell For SQLite

SQLite shared an experimental index recommender. If you are interested more on this topic there is another topic discussing its complexity linked below. 

Why is it hard to automatically suggest what index to create? – select * from depesz;

Projects

GitHub - pocketbase/pocketbase: Open Source realtime backend in 1 file

PocketBase could be used as a standalone app or as a Go framework/toolkit that enables you to build your own custom app specific business logic and still have a single portable executable at the end

Memzoom

Memzoom lets you view/monitor the raw memory of processes/files in your UTF-8 terminal.

Cubernetes

Being a homelabber myself. I loved this post! 

Bun is a fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime

Bun is a new JavaScript runtime with a native bundler, transpiler, task runner and npm client built-in.