Digest #155: Port 80 Insights, Faster CI/CD, FinOps Tips, and Kubernetes Best Practices

Datadog’s acquisition, GitHub Actions upgrades, Terraform security, and must-know DevOps tools and tutorials.

Welcome to this week’s edition of the DevOps Bulletin!

This week’s DevOps Bulletin is packed with news, tutorials, and projects that will get you thinking. From Datadog’s acquisition of Quickwit to the mysteries of port 80 and the internet, and even a conversation about whether we can deprecate git checkout, there’s plenty to explore. On the career front, we’re sharing insights for navigating 2025 as DevOps, while tutorials this week cover topics like making CI/CD pipelines faster, building a FinOps culture, and modularizing GitHub Actions workflows.

We’ve also got some exciting projects to explore, including a Rust-based alternative to Snowflake, a tool for browser automation, and a platform for continuous profiling. And don’t miss the meme of the week—AWS credits have a funny way of vanishing, don’t they? 😅

All this and more in this week’s DevOps Bulletin—don’t miss out!

Newsworthy Stories

• What port 80 revealed about the internet

• Datadog acquires Quickwit

• Can we communally deprecate git checkout?

• One of Ubuntu Linux’s leading lights, has died

• Why EC2 Autoscaling isn’t a silver bullet

Career Advice in 2025

Tutorials of the week

• Secure Terraform with Trivy & GitHub Actions

• From 41 to 8 Minutes: Optimizing CI/CD Pipelines

• SQL NULLs are Weird!

• How to Develop a Serverless Mindset to Write Less Code!

• Using SYN Spoofing to Distract SOC Teams

• End-to-End Testing Microservices

• How to Build a FinOps Culture

• Enhancing Terraform Deployments with TFLint in GitHub Actions

• Making GitHub Actions Workflows More Modular and Efficient

• Use of Time in Distributed Databases

Projects of the week

Highlighting cool DevOps projects to keep an eye on:

• Databend, built in Rust, is an open-source cloud data warehouse that serves as a cost-effective alternative to Snowflake.

• Stagehand is the easiest way to build browser automation. Anything that can be done in a browser can be done with Stagehand.

• Hyperfine is a command-line benchmarking tool designed for performance testing of shell commands.

• Pyroscope is a continuous profiling platform designed to surface performance insights from your applications.

• Trillian is an open-source, highly scalable, and cryptographically verifiable data storage system developed by Google.

Meme of the week

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