International Women’s Day
- To celebrate International Women’s Day, which happened this week, the
Container Camp crew published a list of 36 of the most exciting engineers,
community leaders, managers and contributors in the container
ecosystem—[newly updated for 2018.](https://medium.com/containercamp/
35-people-in-container-tech-you-should-be-following-5300bd4766a0)
Dev
- Yun Zhi Lin shares an updated runtime performance benchmark of
[all five programming languages](https://read.acloud.guru/
comparing-aws-lambda-performance-of-node-js-python-java-c-and-go-29c1163c2581)
supported by AWS Lambda.
Ops
- In this post, Mark McDonnell explores terminology, key monitoring discussion
points, and relevant best practices [when instrumenting application
performance monitoring](http://www.integralist.co.uk/posts/
monitoring-best-practices).
- Many years ago, when the cloud was just rising and DevOps was just an idea,
a small but opinionated group got together to discuss the future of
infrastructure. The Infrastructure 2.0 working group included internet
legends and internet would-be-legends alike: Greg Ness, Christofer Hoff,
James Urquhart, Vint Cerf, Bob Grossman, Dan Lynch. “Despite our earnest
attempts…ultimately the timing just wasn’t right,” reports Lori MacVittie,
writing for SDxCentral. [Now, nearly ten years later, it’s happening.](
https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/contributed/
infrastructure-2-0-whatever-were-calling-it-now-its-here/2018/03/
)
- So, you want to start playing around with Kubernetes because hey, why not?
Brad Downey wanted to run a multi-node cluster and for him, it was about
seeing it and feeling it; he learns better this way. Building and running
Kubernetes clusters isn’t Brad’s day job, so [he needed a way to understand
what all the hype is about.](https://itnext.io/
getting-started-with-kubernetes-using-ansible-and-terraform-741e6bb6ad7a)
- If you’re a newcomer to automation and CI, you’ll like this [quick tutorial
about Jenkins.](https://medium.com/@gustavo.guss/
quick-tutorial-of-jenkins-b99d5f5889f2)
Misc
- Underactuated – Algorithms
for walking, running, swimming, flying, and manipulation. These are working
notes used for a course being taught at MIT. They will be updated throughout
the Spring 2018 semester.