Lots of observability posts this week, from introductions to instrumentation to consideration for data engineering. Plus software bill of material standards, the complexities of branching, security posture management and more.

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News

The NTIA Multistakeholder process has published the minimum elements for a software bill of materials. Lower level than most considers will care for, but lots happening in this space at the moment on the standards and early tooling fronts.
https://www.ntia.gov/blog/2021/ntia-releases-minimum-elements-software-bill-materials
https://www.ntia.gov/report/2021/minimum-elements-software-bill-materials-sbom

A look at the tradeoffs between testing in a pipeline and observability in production for data engineering.
https://medium.com/bigeye/testing-vs-observability-which-is-right-for-your-data-quality-needs-1ceb34a12867

A post describing 6 categories of security posture in need of management, from cloud and applications to identity and devices.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/6-categories-cybersecurity-posture-david-matousek/

The OpenTelemetry standard is making it easier for generic client libraries to have built-in instrumentation, but there are still interesting tradeoffs and design decisions as discussed in this post.
https://neskazu.medium.com/opentelemetry-in-client-libraries-96136d441f0b

Large open source projects have interesting dynamics. This thoughtful post from the Knative project considers whether a project or product mindset would be best for the long term future of the project.
https://hackmd.io/8YbvSOwsS1SCy9gQsyP9mQ

A post on the complexity of branching strategies and the fact many teams just take that friction for granted rather than try something simpler.
https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2021/07/14/on-the-evilness-of-feature-branching-a-tale-of-two-teams.html

A deep dive on what’s happening under the hood of AWS Lambda.
https://www.bschaatsbergen.com/behind-the-scenes-lambda

An example of using Google Cloud, Pulumi and Debezium, a Change Data Capture framework, to build a fault tolerant event driven architecture.
https://daily.dev/blog/building-a-fault-tolerant-event-driven-architecture-with-google-cloud-pulumi-and-debezium

A nice summary of what observability is and why it’s important.
https://adri-v.medium.com/unpacking-observability-a-beginners-guide-833258a0591f

Tools

A handy Kubernetes operator that simplifies the management of Role Bindings and Service Accounts, using a declarative configuration for RBAC with new custom resources.
https://github.com/FairwindsOps/rbac-manager

Moco is a MySQL operator on Kubernetes using GTID-based semi-synchronous replication.
https://github.com/cybozu-go/moco