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Ansible Service Module: Start, Stop, & Manage Services

The Ansibleservicemodulehandles LinuxandWindows without choking on init system quirks. One playbook can start, stop, enable, or restart anything - no matter the OS. Idempotent, so you don’t have to babysit state. Clean and repeatable. Bonus: it’s great for wrangling fleets. Think: coordinating servi..

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How LogSeam Searches 500 Million Logs per second

LogSeam rips through500M log searches/secand pushes1.5+ TB/s throughputusing Tigris’ geo-distributed object storage. It slashes log volume by 100× with Parquet + Zstandard compression. Then it spins up compute on the fly, right where the data lives—no long-running infrastructure, no laggy reads...

How LogSeam Searches 500 Million Logs per second
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Automated GitHub Self-Hosted Runner Cleanup: Lambda Functions and Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks

When an EC2 instance in an Auto Scaling Group shuts down, event-driven plumbing kicks in. Alifecycle hookcatches the scale-in, fires off an SNS notification, and triggers aLambda. That Lambda calls the GitHub API to yank the self-hosted runner before the instance dies. No dangling runners. No manual..

Automated GitHub Self-Hosted Runner Cleanup: Lambda Functions and Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks
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How We Migrated DB 1 to DB 2 , 1 Billion Records Without Downtime

A team movedover 1 billion production records- no downtime, no drama. The stack: dual writes, Kafka retries, and idempotent inserts to keep it clean. They ranshadow readsto sniff for errors, chunked the transfers with checksums, and held off indexing to keep inserts fast. Caches got warmed early to ..

How We Migrated DB 1 to DB 2 , 1 Billion Records Without Downtime
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Seven Years of Firecracker

AWS is puttingFirecracker microVMsto work in two fresh stacks:AgentCore, the new base layer for AI agents, andAurora DSQL, a serverless, PostgreSQL-compatible database it just rolled out. AgentCore gives each agent session its own microVM. More isolation, less cross-talk - solid for multistep LLM wo..

Seven Years of Firecracker
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Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?

Python 3.14lands with a~27%speed jump over 3.13, keeping the post-3.11 momentum alive. The big news: the newfree-threading interpreter- no GIL - now hits up to3.1x fasterthan regular CPython in multi-threaded, CPU-heavy benchmarks. That’s up from 2.2x in 3.13. Less shiny: theJIT interpreterstill can..

Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?
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The Myths (and Costs) of Running Node.js on Kubernetes

Kubernetes struggles to scale Node.js efficiently due to a mismatch in resource usage patterns. Autoscaling can be sluggish with bursty traffic, leading to revenue risks and performance issues. Teams must rethink resource allocation and scaling strategies to optimize Node.js efficiency in Kubernetes..

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How I Built My Kubernetes Command Toolkit: A Journey from kubectl Chaos to Command Mastery

A dev-built Kubernetes CLI framework reshapeskubectlfor how teams actually work. Commands get grouped by role - dev, SRE, sec, admin - instead of by resource. It bakes in defaults forKyvernopolicies, encourages muscle-memory workflows, and wires up real-time troubleshooting to shrink downtime in pro..

How I Built My Kubernetes Command Toolkit: A Journey from kubectl Chaos to Command Mastery
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Internal HTTPS Routing in Istio.

Istio finally bringsinternal HTTPS routingwithSNI-based traffic rules. Services in the mesh can now talk over port 443—TLS fully intact. Just like in prod. TLS terminates at the ingress gateway. Routing pivots on SNI, not headers. Which makes this much closer to real-world mTLS flows. What’s the pla..

Internal HTTPS Routing in Istio.
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Most Cloud-Native Roles are Software Engineers

Software Engineers still own the cloud-native job boards in 2025 - nearly47%of all Kubernetes-tagged listings. DevOps holds onto second. But Platform Engineers just leapfrogged SREs, which have slid 30% since 2023...

Most Cloud-Native Roles are Software Engineers