SOOCon 2024 write-up

I went to SOOCon this year and really enojoyed it. I felt like I learned a lot and am pretty energised by the things I saw there.

Like, now I feel I need to learn some Rust (even more) and play around with OpenTofu (which I did want to anyway, but now I'm more emotionally invested).

> This is totally not because I got cool stickers from those booths...totally not that.

Recordings for the talks should be going up soon and you can get to those (I think) via the schedule link above.

Books/Papers I need to read now

- Team Topologies - all the ex-pivots seem obssessed for good reason

  • Cyber Deception: Techniques, Strategies, and Human Aspects: 89
  • Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud
  • Platform Engineering Maturity Model

    • Sites/repos I need to rat-hole on

    - Local AI - OpenAI API you can run locally on your machine

  • Stern - Kubernetes logging made pretty and nice
  • Kubefirst - GitOps platform thingy
  • Crossplane - a shiny new interesting alternative to TF for platform eng
  • OpenTofu
  • OpenSSF
  • Allstar on GitHub - we probably use this tbh
  • Scorecard on GitHub - shiny badge for being secure!!!

    • Random tech/concept rat-holes

    - RTOS and Zephyr

  • The UK's National Digital Twin Programme
  • Confidential computing and unicity
  • Monadic time

    • I met the person who made this and they did it to Rickroll people

    Further thoughts

    The Security track for this conference was pretty great and definitely relevant to my day-job and team. I also thought the Platform Engineering stuff was really interesting.