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Civo Navigate, WASM I/O and my health issues

I was in US(Florida) past week with my Civo team and attending Civo Navigate. Everything was going awesome as we met as a whole group, went to team activities like golfing and Universal studios until it was showdown time and I fell sick.

I had a bad stomach ache, vomits that too on the day of the event and I gave the session - Civo Product Launches with Dinesh. I was even worse the next day, but after vomiting, I went in again and gave Kubernetes workshop(Not sure how I did it).

Next day I had to fly out, Thankful to AirIndia for giving me the crew seats to lie down and sleep as I was feeling miserable. Cut story short, I went to hospital, got injections, drips and scans done. I am still recovering with slow recovery rate but what an unfortunate timings for me to get sick. I wanted to meet so many of my friends at navigate and do so much. But I am happy that everyone praised about the dope conference schedule that I put up for Civo Navigate.

That was me in past 15 days and whenever I got some time, I read some articles from cloud native community that I will be sharing below.

At Civo Navigate we launched

• Talos based Kubernetes clusters

• OpenCP - open source project to provision Civo infra via kubectl and we want to take this to next level

• Confidential computing - we are doubling down on security

• Machine learning service

• PAAS - Platform as a service in alpha stage

• New region

I think the whole team did a pretty solid job for the conference and the product launches and making it easy to deploy your applications.

=> What have I been doing?

• Civo Navigate

• I will be part of the panel for WASM I/O Barcelona next month

• Working internally on different Civo projects

• Working on the next YouTube video

Kubesimplify updates

Loving how our Instagram is shaping up with DevOps dictionary. If you visit the page, it really looks dope, the designers have done an amazing job. If you are on Instagram, do checkout our DevOps dictionary series.

Twitch streams will be restarted with the live learn by doing sessions from Avinesh and other Kubesimplify Ambassadors and also we are working on something great for you folks to be published on YouTube(hopefully next month).

We are looking for venue for 200 people in Delhi NCR region on 8th April, do dm us for leads.

Blogs:

• GitOps - Demystified by Nourhan Khaled

• Understanding etcd in Kubernetes: A Beginner's Guide by Srinivas Karnati

• Become a Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate - Preparation Guide by Kunal Verma

• StatefulSets by Srinivas Karnati

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Videos - Awesome content from the community

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• Avesha - From Sorrow to Simplicity : Benefits of Unifying your Clouds with One Network by Olyvia Rakshit

• Instruqt - The Modern Software Buyer: What They Want & Why They Want It by Paul Thelen

• Komodor -  Kubectl wasn’t intended for Devs. Why should you force them to use it? by Guy Menachem

• Sysdig - Crack the Exam Code to Become a Certified K8s Security Specialist in 2023! Tips and Tricks to Ace that Exam with CNCF Fellow, Saiyam Pathak - This is the webinar I am doing in a couple of weeks so do sign up.

• SlimAI - The Evolution of DockerSlim: New Name, New Capabilities and Closer Alignment with the Cloud Native Ecosystem

  Awesome Reads

  • Go 1.20 release updates - Which feature did you like the most? some of the updates include easy slices to array, unsafe, performance improvements for builds

  • How WebAssembly Offers Secure Development through Sandboxing by Jeff Goldman - I think WASM in the container ecosystem is really picking up pace with new demos being created each day.

  • Watching and Caching - A series not to be missed by Dan, this one explains about Caching implementation.

  • WebAssembly: 5 Predictions for 2023 by Matt Butcher - Another WASM post with its impact in the serverless side of things and other predictions. I also stated that we will see a lot of growth in WASM ecosystem in 2023 specially in serverless world.

  • A Comprehensive Overview of Argo CD Architectures – 2023 by Dan Garfield - I think Dan is a real Argo Ambassador and has a deep understanding of the project and also various architectures that can be used for different scenarios. Do you want me to do a deep dive from this blog as well?

  • Sync 10,000 Argo CD Applications in One Shot by Jun Duan - Another ArgoCD one where they share how they were able to achieve 10k app sync in 35 minutes and what were different challenges.

  • Content Delivery Network (CDN): Explained in simple words by Animesh Gaitonde - In this fast moving world it’s important to get your basic terms brushed time to time and this is perfect example for CDN.

  • Containerd Adds Support for a New Container Type: Wasm Containers by Vivian Hu- We were already excited with runwasi and now I am even more excited to see this happening.

  Learning resources/repos

  • Carbonyl - Chromium running inside your terminal

  • jsoncrack.com - Seamlessly visualize your JSON data instantly into graphs; paste, import or fetch!

  • opencontrolplane - Manage cloud infrastructure with kubectl

  Learn from Twitter

  Stefan Schimanski @the_sttts

  🧵 thread summing up my learnings about Backstage.

Daniele Polencic — @danielepolencic@hachyderm.io @danielepolencic

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