Assorted links for Thursday, Febuary 27:

1. The Engineer’s Guide to Controlling Configuration Drift

   Key techniques:

   • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
   • Policy as Code (PaC)
   • Compliance as Code
   • Application Configuration Management
   • Configuration Checklist
   • Credential Management
   • Centralized Configuration Management
   • Environment Parity

2. How Precision Time Protocol handles leap seconds
3. Observability Isn’t Enough. It’s Time To Federate Log Data

   With data federation, you can query data across many different sources without moving it. With this approach, no additional pipeline is needed; there are no egress costs and none of the security risks that come with migrating data.

4. Data logs: The latest evolution in Meta’s access tools

   We created data logs as a solution to provide users who want more granular information with access to data stored in Hive. In this context, an individual data log entry is a formatted version of a single row of data from Hive that has been processed to make the underlying data transparent and easy to understand.

5. Open Source Redefines Data Platforms