LXD 6.7 Released With AMD GPU Passthrough Support
Canonical released LXD 6.7, the latest update to its container and virtual‑machine manager for Ubuntu. The release introduces AMD GPU passthrough support using the new AMD CDI interface and a gpu_cdi_amd extension. It also upgrades VM GPU passthrough with newer QEMU and EDK2 versions while adding faster UI access, storage‑pool recovery, forced instance deletion via API, and x86_64‑v3 image support.
Refactoring the RestAssured.Net Code with Claude Code
The author used Claude Code’s Opus 4.6 model to refactor the large ExecutableRequest class in the RestAssured.Net library, creating a new RequestBodyFactory and consolidating arguments into a RequestBodySettings object. Guardrails such as excluding test files, manual code review, and incremental...
Harness Evolves Chaos Engineering to Resilience Testing
Harness announced the evolution of its Chaos Engineering module into a broader Resilience Testing platform, adding native load and disaster‑recovery testing capabilities. The new suite builds on the open‑source LitmusChaos project and Harness’s 2022 acquisition of Chaos Native, integrating AI‑driven...
From Operations to Outcomes: The Business Value of Automation
Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform is shifting IT automation from simple time‑saving scripts to a strategic business asset that delivers measurable reliability, security and revenue protection. Industry research shows 72% of enterprises juggle 50+ tools, creating visibility gaps and governance risks...
Tmux Shines when Paired with Agentic CLI Tools
Not sure why I have been sleeping on tmux so long. It pairs so nicely with agentic CLI tools
Building Day 2 Ops Guardrails with Terraform and Packer
The article outlines how Terraform and Packer can establish Day 2 operations guardrails that keep cloud environments secure, compliant, and cost‑effective after initial provisioning. It identifies common post‑deployment pitfalls such as manual ticketing, policy drift, orphaned resources, and misconfigurations that drive...
AWS Bedrock Vs. SageMaker: Choosing the Right GenAI Stack in 2026
By 2026 Amazon Bedrock has evolved into a serverless platform that delivers managed agents, built‑in Retrieval‑Augmented Generation and guardrails, while Amazon SageMaker remains the full‑stack workbench for custom model training, massive‑scale distributed jobs and hardware‑optimized inference. Bedrock now supports fine‑tuning...
DevOps Success Depends on System Thinking, Not Tool Memorization
✨ Transitioning into DevOps isn’t about memorizing tools. ✨ 💡 It’s about understanding systems. Networking, CI/CD, cloud IAM, observability. Focus on how pieces connect, not just commands.
How cy.prompt Generates cy.contains, cy.press, and Handles Sensitive Data
Cypress’ cy.prompt command now interprets quoted text as cy.contains calls, generating exact‑match regular expressions instead of generic selectors. The update also extends not.exist assertions to work with text‑based targeting and introduces cy.press for native keyboard actions. Additionally, cy.prompt automatically redacts...
Hands‑on Projects, Not Certifications, Fast‑Track DevOps
🚨 The fastest way into DevOps is not another certification. 🚨 It’s building a real project with Infrastructure as Code, CI pipelines, monitoring, and incident recovery. I break this down in my free resources.
Digital Transformation at Santander: How Platform Engineering Is Revolutionizing Cloud Infrastructure
Santander launched Catalyst, a platform‑engineering solution built with AWS, to overhaul its cloud infrastructure. The initiative replaces a 90‑day manual provisioning process with an automated, Kubernetes‑based control plane that leverages Crossplane, ArgoCD, and OPA. By consolidating over 100 pipelines, Catalyst...
Bindplane Launches Integrations for VictoriaMetrics to Make It Even Easier to Collect, Process, and Route Opentelemetry
Bindplane announced native destinations for the VictoriaMetrics ecosystem, allowing users to route OpenTelemetry metrics, traces, and logs directly to VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaTraces, and VictoriaLogs. The integration provides vendor‑neutral, OpenTelemetry‑native pipelines that eliminate manual exporter configuration and mitigate collector drift. It also...
Kubernetes WG Serving Concludes Following Successful Advancement of AI Inference Support
The Kubernetes Working Group (WG) Serving has been disbanded after successfully establishing the platform as a preferred orchestrator for AI inference workloads. The group’s workstreams gathered requirements from model servers, hardware vendors, and inference providers, leading to the adoption of...
Timescale Beats Clickhouse‑Postgres Combo for Simplicity
Clickhouse is trying to push postgres + clickhouse as the ultimate analytics DB stack. But tbh adding an eventually consistent database to your stack that you needed to sync too is anything but trivial. Love the product but I'd just use...
Reproducibility Beats Impressiveness in AI Take‑Home Submissions
I have a simple take-home rule for our AI engineering interviews: If I can’t run your project in a fresh environment quickly, the project isn’t done. Not because I’m strict. Because that’s what working in a team feels like. A strong README doesn’t read...
Rootly | SRE Vs. DevOps: What Are the Differences?
The article contrasts Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with DevOps, highlighting how both bridge the historic gap between development and operations but take distinct approaches. SRE, popularized by Google, centers on engineering‑driven reliability and treats systems as software, while DevOps emphasizes...
Tracking Claude Code Performance with OpenTelemetry and Grafana
On a roll with Claude Code with Claude Opus/Sonnet and GLM-5 with my Claude Code OpenTelemetry Grafana usage metrics 🤓
AI Automates Controls-as-Code, Generating Good Defaults
Stop (only) scanning for bad code, start generating good defaults. Ep #135 explains how AI is turning 'controls as code' into an automated reality for developers. 💻 https://t.co/vDuusPGcqc
Rootly | How to Build an Effective Incident Response Team: Step-by-Step Guide
Meta’s 2021 global outage highlighted how a coordinated, cross‑functional incident response team can limit downtime and reputational harm. The article uses that case to illustrate the challenges smaller firms face when structuring such teams. It outlines essential roles—Incident Commander, Technical...
Speed's Gone, Quality Now Defines Competitive Edge
If you thought your company's edge was "how fast you ship", you're in for a rude awakening. Everyone can ship fast now. Obviously, not everyone can ship tastefully, with quality and restraint in mind. That's the new edge.
Even Seasoned Cloud Run Users Miss Essential Tips
I've been using @googlecloud Run for years, and I still didn't know at least two of these five tips from Sara. Sheesh, I'm embarrassed. All of these are terrific ... https://t.co/UGZj2r5dpG
How We Engineered a Scalable and Performant Enterprise AI Platform
To meet the stringent data‑privacy demands of enterprise insurance, the company abandoned the traditional multi‑tenant SaaS model and built a single‑tenant AI platform where each client receives an isolated database and compute environment. By eliminating middleware and moving business logic...
AI Boosts Engineer Efficiency 100x, Redefining Open‑Source Costs
I cannot stop thinking about the implications that Cloudflare / Vinext has on commercial open source, and in general, the cost of migrations, rewrites, and maintenance. One engineer, with AI, proved to be ~100x as efficient as before. This will have...
AI Makes Open‑source Rewrites Trivial, Cloudflare Proves It
We will see much, much more of this happening. AI is changing open source incredibly rapidly. Rewriting an open source project to a new language/framework used to be a massive effort: AI is making it trivial as Cloudflare just showcased with...
How We Built a Distributed Work Scheduling System for Pulumi Cloud
Pulumi Cloud needed a unified scheduler to orchestrate deployments, Insights scans, and policy evaluations across both its own infrastructure and customer‑managed runners. The team built a database‑backed background activity system that treats each workflow as a typed, persistent activity with...
First Day with Codex: Code Reviews Look Promising
Trying Codex for code reviews on PRs... only first day, but so far, so good
Secure and Fast Deployments to Google Agent Engine with GitLab
The tutorial shows how to deploy a Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) AI agent to Google Cloud's Agent Engine using GitLab’s native Google Cloud integration and CI/CD pipelines. It walks through configuring IAM with Workload Identity Federation, creating a .gitlab-ci.yml...
Streamline Your Network Operations with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Cisco Meraki
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform now integrates with Cisco Meraki through the Cisco Marketplace, delivering a unified, cloud‑based solution for network automation. The partnership enables rapid provisioning, configuration, and scaling of branch and edge devices while embedding audit, compliance, and security...
Deep Dive: How Linkerd-Destination Works in the Linkerd Service Mesh
The article dissects linkerd-destination, the core component of Linkerd’s control plane that drives service discovery, policy distribution, and service‑profile enforcement. It explains how the service uses Kubernetes watches and EndpointSlices to translate cluster events into real‑time gRPC streams for proxies....
Alerts Just Got Easier to Find – Here Are 6 to Set Up First
Fastly announced a unified notification drawer that consolidates observability alerts, service advisories and spend warnings into a single bell‑icon panel across the control‑panel UI. The new drawer shows only active alerts with key details and a one‑click link to the...
AI Infrastructure Becomes 2026’s Competitive Edge
2026: The Year AI Infrastructure Becomes Your Competitive Strategy A recent Forbes article states that experts declare we are moving from AI curiosity to capability. The era of experimental pilots has ended. AI agents now deploy in real workflows. They plan, decide,...
6,000 AWS Accounts, Three People, One Platform: Lessons Learned
ProGlove runs a SaaS platform on AWS using an account-per-tenant architecture, currently operating about 6,000 tenant accounts—half active—with over 120,000 service instances and a million Lambda functions. The approach gives each customer isolated compute, storage, and IAM boundaries, simplifying security,...
Fix Cypress CI Failures Caused by No Spec Files Found
Cypress 15.11.0 introduces the --pass-with-no-tests CLI flag, allowing test runs that find zero spec files to exit with a zero status code instead of failing the CI pipeline. The failure previously occurred when configuration patterns like specPattern or --spec matched no files, often due to mis‑configured...
Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.22.0: Automatic Storage Resizing, Vault Integration, Service Mesh Support, and More!
Percona released Operator for MongoDB version 1.22.0, adding automatic Persistent Volume Claim resizing, HashiCorp Vault integration for system user credentials, and native service‑mesh compatibility via the appProtocol field. The update also expands backup and restore capabilities, including replica‑set name remapping,...
Mitchell Hashimoto’s Workflow Transformed by AI Tools
How has the day-to-day workflow of Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) changed, thanks to AI tools? Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 07:19 HashiCorp origins 18:22 The 2010s startup scene in SF 23:11 Funding HashiCorp 25:23 The "Hashi stack" 38:28 The open-core pivot 48:08 Taking HashiCorp public 51:58 The almost-VMware acquisition 59:10 Mitchell’s take...
Rafay Joins VAST Cosmos to Enable Governed GPU-Powered AI Services
Rafay has joined the VAST Cosmos Community as a Technology Partner, aligning its AI‑native cloud control plane with VAST Data’s AI Operating System. The collaboration integrates Rafay’s orchestration platform with VAST’s governed storage services, creating a unified, multi‑tenant AI service...
Maintaining Compliance when Adopting AI in Regulated Industries
Regulated firms can integrate AI without sacrificing compliance by leveraging automated testing. Continuous validation mitigates risks from non‑deterministic model behavior, frequent updates, and limited explainability. The approach preserves audit‑readiness, traceability, and documented evidence across frameworks such as SOX, HIPAA, and...
Cagent: Dockers Newest Low Code Agentic Platform
Docker unveiled Cagent, an open‑source, low‑code framework that lets developers launch AI agents using a single YAML file instead of extensive code. The platform integrates the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Docker Model Runner to support multiple LLM providers and...
Fragments: February 25
Laura Tacho’s recent study shows 92.6% of developers rely on AI assistants, claiming roughly four saved hours per week and that AI now writes about 27% of code autonomously. The data also suggests AI can halve onboarding time, yet averages...
Codex 5.3 Replaces Opus 4.6 for Me
I know this is pretty well established at this point, but Codex 5.3 is a much more effective model than Opus 4.6. I went back and forth on both for a bit, but haven’t touched Opus at all now for...
CloudCasa Expands Red Hat OpenShift Data Protection Across Edge and Hybrid Cloud
CloudCasa has upgraded its backup and recovery platform to better serve Red Hat OpenShift deployments across core, edge, and hybrid cloud environments. The update adds native SMB protocol support as a backup target, letting customers use existing SMB storage or operator‑deployed...
AI Overlays Legacy Observability, Slowing Debugging Further
Adding AI to legacy observability practices won't make debugging faster. It'll just amplify the problem.
Pick AI Models by Needs, Not Highest Benchmark
✨Best model✨ is the wrong question. ❌ Highest benchmark ≠ right fit. The real question❓ → What does your workload need? → What tradeoffs matter? → Where does reliability matter more than raw power? Choosing AI models the boring way is how you build systems that...
Crossplane & AI: The Case for API-First Infrastructure
AI‑assisted development has moved the primary bottleneck from writing code to the myriad tasks that follow a git push, such as provisioning, policy enforcement, and drift remediation. Most existing platforms keep the desired state in Git while the actual state...
Vercel Doubles Python Bundle Size in Major Upgrade
Python on Vercel is getting major upgrades, starting with 2x larger max bundle size. More to come.
Choose: AI-Driven Pipelines or Human-Controlled CI/CD
AI forces us to rethink CI/CD. This post outlines the situation, and says you should either be all-in on agentic workflows (and accept weird edge cases), or stick with human-centered determinism (and accept the slowness). But don't live in the middle. https://t.co/k7UkeG9CSD
Lightrun Debuts Real-Time AI Site Reliability Engineer for Autonomous Software Remediation
Lightrun Inc. unveiled an AI‑powered Site Reliability Engineer that can generate missing runtime evidence on‑the‑fly, eliminating the need for redeployments. The tool leverages the company’s patented Sandbox and Runtime Context engine to capture live, line‑level execution data, prove root causes,...
Prioritize P95/P99 Metrics to Empower Power Users
If only more products would measure p95 / p99 metrics and act on them, instead of looking at medians (p50) or averages (that mask outliers) p99 is almost always your power users. Fixing stuff for them has outsized impact Great example on...
AI's Diverse Uses: From Business to Biological Training
Fragments: how organizations are using AI, reflections from the Utah retreat, agentic engineering patterns, inserting friction for security, training biological neural networks https://t.co/lrzsTVy1gs
Bioinformatics Needs Git: 6 Essential Commands
1/ If you're doing bioinformatics without Git, you're gambling with your research. Here are 6 Git commands every bioinformatician must know 🧵 https://t.co/gFhsTYIsMv