Is Kubernetes Programming?

We gather around the water cooler to discuss some random topics, while Joe sends too many calendar invites, Allen interferes with science, and Michael was totally duped.

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News

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• Factorio v1 is official! (factorio.com)

Overheard Around the Water Cooler

• Are your unit tests bring your down? Do we hate unit tests now?
  • Unit Testing Is Overrated (Hacker News)
  • Is TDD Dead? (Reddit, Hacker News)
  • Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration. (KentCDodds.com)
• Do you have to read your emails?
• Are you ruining everything by working late?
• Is Kubernetes programmings?
• When developing the next big deal application, which of the following are most important to you?
  • Features
  • Automation, i.e. CI / CD pipeline
  • Unit tests, maybe even TDD
  • Dependency Injection
  • ALM (Alerting, Logging, Monitoring)
  • Security first

Resources We Like

• RAW Vim Workshop/Tutorial (YouTube)
• Explore Kubernetes resources with Datadog Live Containers (Datadog)

Tip of the Week

• Lens, The Kubernetes IDE (GitHub)
• Bind Docker inside a running container to the host's Docker instance to use Docker within Docker by adding the following to your Docker run command: -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
  • Note that this syntax works on Windows.