🚀 Welcome to this week’s Friday Readings!
A quick collection of must‑reads, tool announcements, and tech highlights that caught my eye recently.
đź“š Books
- The Art of Scalability (O’Reilly, 2nd ed.) - Classic playbook on scaling orgs and systems in tandem-people, process, and architecture patterns for sustainable growth.
- The Software Engineer’s Guidebook - A pragmatic career map from junior to principal with focused chapters on delivery, testing, architecture, and team dynamics.
đź“š Articles Worth Your Time
- Think First, AI Second - A crisp argument for a “brain→AI” workflow-do your own thinking before prompting to preserve attention/memory and get better outcomes from AI.
- Atlantis with Terragrunt (Spacelift) - How to wire Atlantis to Terragrunt with custom workflows/webhooks, plus pros/cons and alternatives.
- Using Atlantis Plan as a Quality Gate (ControlMonkey) - Treat
atlantis planas a merge gate, integrate scanners (Checkov/Trivy/KICS), and note self-hosted limitations. - Cloud Cost Optimization - A Senior Engineer’s Guide - Practical levers across app-level tuning, storage lifecycle, K8s autoscaling, ARM/edge choices, and cost-aware culture.
- OpenWrt Mesh 802.11s - Step-by-step to build an OpenWrt 802.11s mesh (including replacing wpad and enabling BATMAN-adv) for seamless roaming.
- Your Brain on Incidents - Human-centric incident tips: blameless culture, tuned alerting, and shorter on-call rotations to reduce cognitive load.
🛠️ New Tools & Announcements
- Next AI Draw.io - Prompt-driven diagramming (flowcharts, AWS arch, animated connectors) with file and image input for rapid diagram generation.
- Zerobyte - Restic-based backup automation with a web UI for scheduling/retention, multi-protocol sources (NFS/SMB/WebDAV/local), and Docker deployment.
- DockMon - Self-hosted Docker monitoring with real-time dashboards, multi-host support, intelligent auto-restart, and multi-channel alerting.
- Ingress-NGINX Retirement (Kubernetes) - SIG Network announces best-effort maintenance until March 2026 and recommends migration to Gateway API or another controller.
Thanks for reading!
That’s all.