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Can Tofu Substitute the Meat? | ✉️ #28

Illustration for "MKDEV DISPATCH #28" featuring a thinking man with glasses and text asking, "Can tofu substitute the meat?" accompanied by paper airplanes and a tofu icon. Illustration for "MKDEV DISPATCH #28" featuring a thinking man with glasses and text asking, "Can tofu substitute the meat?" accompanied by paper airplanes and a tofu icon.

Hey! 👋

Last week, our team from mkdev took a trip to London. Why? We were there to sponsor DevOpsDays London 2023. Those were some great days, and London, as always, treated us well with its food. One of the places that we visited was the Seven Dials Market, a busy market with lots of restaurants. It is similar to what you can find in Madrid with the Mercado San Miguel and many others in various cities, but the difference here is that you don't expect the vast interior space from the outside.

On the first floor of this market, we found Club Mexicana. At first, it looked like any other Mexican place. But here's the special part: all their dishes are vegan. It's a fantastic spot for vegans and for anyone wanting to try a different take on Mexican food.

Their tacos al pastor made with tofu caught our attention. Believe me, if you taste it without being told, you'd think it's made of meat. The Rib tacos, Chorizo and Potato tacos... each bite was full of flavors. When you try the tacos al pastor, you feel the chile guajillo, the pineapple, and coriander, with a touch of marinated onion; it was a memorable experience. And while you might expect to miss the pork, the tofu did a great job.

Now, I have to admit, as someone who loves tacos — really loves them — these are some of the best tacos I've ever had. You might not even think about the lack of meat until you really focus on the texture. It's close to the real taco al pastor, maybe 90% similar. Not the full 100%, but quite close.

This brings me to another thought. We all know tofu can be used instead of meat, but it's still different. In the same way, OpenTofu can be compared to Terraform, but it's not the same thing.

What We've Shared

On our YouTube channel Pablo talks about Tekton, while Kirill continues with th

And on the website our classic Terraform Lightning Course continues with its third part:

What We've Discovered

Only one thing caught our attention this week: CloudWatch now supports ML queries. CloudWatch is catching up rapidly with third party Observability tools. They fixed having a central multi account overview this year, and now they caught up with ML-based queries that are so handy, say, in DataDog.

An announcement

​Google Cloud Run & Databases is our new free webinar by Pablo. First transmission of the webinar is set to be next Wednesday, October 4th. Sign up on the webinar page and join Pablo next week and learn how to interconnect Cloud Run with a database in GCP.

The 29th mkdev dispatch will arrive on Friday the 13th. October will be here, spooky season is upon us. See you next time!