Get ready for an exciting edition of our weekly DevOps newsletter! This week, we’ve got a diverse range of topics that will help you level up your skills and stay updated with the latest trends. Learn how to build an efficient pull request review process, implement passwordless authentication with Amazon Cognito, and build bedtime stories for children with AWS serverless services, ChatGPT, and DALL-E.

Plus, discover how to reduce your AWS billing cost from $7000+ to under $2000 dollar and run virtual machines like a Pod and orchestrate them via Kubernetes.

Don’t miss out on the open-source projects of the week, a podcast episode with cost-optimization tips for running containers on ECS, and my free workshop event on how to build a Serverless app with AWS Lambda, ChatGPT, and Twilio. Buckle up and let’s dive in!

Tutorials of the week

👀 “Building a scalable PR review process” — A great read on how to optimize the code review process for fast-growing organizations or teams — Read more »

🔒 “Passwordless authentication made easy with Cognito” — A hands-on tutorial on how to implement passwordless authentication with Amazon Cognito — Read more »

😅 “Implementing a Serverless story generation application with ChatGPT and DALL-E” — This post covers how to build a bedtime story for children with AWS serverless services, ChatGPT and DALL-E — Read more »

💰 “How I reduced our AWS billing cost from $7000+ to under $2000 dollar?” — Optimizing MySQL queries and proper indexing, API Gateway caching, CloudWatch logs retention, CloudFront caching, and other tips — Read more »

📦 “KubeVirt Part 1 — Run VMs like a Pod” — Learn how to run virtual machines like a Pod and orchestrate them via Kubernetes — Read more »

🤖 “Using ChatGPT for DevOps” — Tips and tricks to get the most out of using ChatGPT for DevOps — Read more »

🚀 “Inside logical replication in PostgreSQL” — This blog post will go through the fundamentals of Logical Replication and some use cases — Read more »

🔨 “How to own your own Docker Registry address” — Dodge the next Dockerpocalypse and setup your own Docker registry — Read more »

🔎 “Analyzing multi-gigabyte JSON files locally” — For data engineers, this tutorial can be helpful on how to leverage jq, Jupyter and Dask for large JSON files analysis — Read more »

Open-source projects of the week

1️⃣ SQL Translator is a tool for converting natural language queries into SQL code using artificial intelligence — Learn more »

2️⃣ A simple, high-throughput file client for mounting an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system — Learn more »

3️⃣ Chainloop is an open source software supply chain control plane, a single source of truth for artifacts plus a declarative attestation process — Learn more »

4️⃣ Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON — Learn more »

5️⃣ Terraform Live Graph Extension for vscode is a plugin that allows you to generate a live Terraform graph as you code — Learn more »

6️⃣ libgsqlite is a SQLite extension that loads a Google Sheet as a virtual table — Learn more »

Tweet of the week

Lambda functions are cost-efficient they say 😅

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Memes of the week

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