Go 1.21 will be released with many improvements that I appreciate, but the one that stands out to me the most is the addition of the log/slog package. It serves as a great foundation for a logging system, but there’s a lot more to logging than what it offers out of the box. I published a blog post on the Anchorage Digital Blog that points out some logging features that can and should be added around this package....

I have been using CUE for over 2 years and I’ve found it to be incredibly good at defining policies. CUE is an elegant configuration language because of the guarantees that it can express. It has many additional uses such as applying policies on existing configurations, whether they are written in CUE or in another format like JSON or YAML. Let’s take a look at some easy and practical policy enforcement applications for CUE for Kubernetes, OpenAPI and Terraform....