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🔗 Stories, Tutorials & Articles |
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What LLMs can do for SREs in Cloud Native Infrastructure |
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Kubernetes pushing beyond 100 nodes turns SREs into exhausted jugglers—five people just to keep it all running smoothly. Enter LLMs. They now do the heavy lifting, with tools like Autopilot and Smart Sizing that scale without breaking a sweat. No, they're not here to steal jobs. They're here to empower SREs, so they can build castles of architecture instead of stamping out fires. |
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AWS Built a Security Tool. It Introduced a Security Risk. ✅ |
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AWS's Account Assessment for AWS Organizations tool managed to crank up privilege escalation risks. Its deployment instructions? About as safe as skydiving with a bedsheet. They urged the "hub role" to chill in less-secure accounts, opening a treasure trove of dicey trust paths. AWS rushed to bandage the wound with updated docs. But if you set this up before 2025-01-28 and ignored those stricter security whispers, chaos might still lurk in your backyard. |
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Tag Your Way In: New Privilege Escalation Technique in GCP |
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GCP's IAM tagBindings open a stealthy admin shortcut: A low-key user can wrangle their way into full admin rights just by smartly slapping on the right tags. Conditional access beware, this one's a slippery trick. Lapses in tag permissions let this gambit slip under the radar, making airtight tag management a must. Better lock it down before someone finds the skeleton key. |
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Systematically Terraforming a Brownfield of Cloud Infrastructure |
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Terraform stepped into a fintech frenzy and wrangled that infrastructure beast into submission. With its wizardry, the once-chaotic tax gateway evolved into a slick IaC setup. As changes came in hot and fast, the system scaled gracefully instead of exploding into chaos. Terraform sidestepped those third-party shackles and let custom scripts play the hero's role—flexible, nimble, and entirely their own. |
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How Thoughtworks Bridges the Platform Engineering Gap |
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Platform engineering started out as a sysadmin's sidekick, but now it's a boardroom darling. CEOs and CTOs can't stop yammering about its magic touch. With over 50 engineers? Platform engineering turns a DevOps calamity into calm, claims Thomas Squeo. Thoughtworks gives a nod to its clients: go ahead and buy, mix, or concoct something new with pals like Humanitec and Mia-Platform. But hold your horses—don't expect miracles overnight. Real wins? They’re brewing around sprints four to six. |
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Anatomy of a Database Operation ✅ |
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Ever wonder about the backstage chaos when you whisper SELECT or INSERT in Postgres? Picture the Postgres server process like "Happy Mrs Chicken" from Peppa Pig—perched on port 5432, ready for action. Crave speed? Dive into PgBouncer. This little trickster pools connections, dodging the traffic jam of endless server connections. |
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Battle of the AI Code Assistants: Who Writes the Best Python Integration Code? |
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Plandex AI just snagged gold with a Python integration that isn't just rich in features—it's a fortress of security, exhaustive in testing, and glued to best practices. Over in the design corner, Claude Code stands tall, armed with killer documentation and resource management that could charm a library. Meanwhile, OpenAI Codex is hanging out in the back, happy to keep it simple for those still wearing coding training wheels. |
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Docker Base Images Demystified: A Practical Guide |
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Choosing the right base image for Docker? Transformative. Alpine's tiny ~5MB footprint is practically ethereal. Distroless offers fortress-like security. Better performance all around. Nailing the balance among size, security, and compatibility is a delicate dance. Automation and relentless watchfulness keep security tight and performance slick. |
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Is Golang Still Growing? Go Language Popularity Trends in 2024 |
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Go's on fire. By 2024, it's got 5.8 million developers in its corner. It's a hot favorite for cloud-native projects, and those coding in Go? They're pocketing hefty paychecks. Rust might be stealing some headlines, but Go's charm lies in its easy pick-up-and-play style. It dominates microservices and APIs and even tiptoes into AI model serving. |
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An Intro to DeepSeek's Distributed File System ✅ |
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3FS from DeepSeek dazzles with slick tricks, including CRAQ for ironclad consistency and a clever ChunkEngine built in Rust. It sprints through scalable reads, but gets tripped up by write latency. In Zipfian workloads, that bottleneck might just drive you bananas. |
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The AI-powered DevOps revolution: Redefining developer collaboration |
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April steers GitHub's leap from legacy systems to serverless wonders, turning code-first DevOps into more than a buzzword. On the flip side? She tackles triathlons and communes with nature like it's nobody's business. |
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