“You might not need Kubernetes; you’re not Google” – I hear that quite often. And while it is true that the full power of Kubernetes is not needed for smaller-scale web projects, it can come in quite handy.
In this article, I will showcase the benefits of using Kubernetes for smaller projects, and we will set up a Managed Cluster on the Digital Ocean platform.
Source: My Simple Kubernetes Setup for Side Projects, an article by Bas Steins.
There is a common view out there that the QUIC transport protocol (RFC 9000) is just another refinement to the original TCP transport protocol [1] [2]. I find it hard to agree with this sentiment, and for me QUIC represents a significant shift in the set of transport capabilities available to applications in terms of communication privacy, session control integrity and flexibility. QUIC embodies a different communications model that makes intrinsically useful to many more forms of application behaviours. Oh, yes. It’s also faster than TCP! In my opinion It’s likely that over time QUIC will replace TCP in the public Internet. So, for me QUIC is a lot more than just a few tweaks to TCP. Here we will describe both TCP and QUIC and look at the changes that QUIC has bought to the transport table.
Source: Comparing TCP and QUIC, an article by Geoff Huston.
SSH is yet another example of an ancient technology that is still in wide use today. It may very well be that learning a couple of SSH tricks is more profitable in the long run than mastering a dozen Cloud Native tools destined to become deprecated next quarter.
One of my favorite parts of this technology is SSH Tunnels. With nothing but standard tools and often using just a single command, you can achieve the following:
- Access internal VPC endpoints through a public-facing EC2 instance.
- Open a port from the localhost of a development VM in the host's browser.
- Expose any local server from a home/private network to the outside world.
And more 😍
Source: A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels (with labs), an article by Ivan Velichko.