Terraform Stacksjust hit GA onHCP Terraform, and they bring some real structure to the chaos. Think modular, declarative, and way less workspace spaghetti. Build reusablecomponents(a.k.a. modules), bundle them intodeployments, and wire up stacks usingpublish/consume patterns- complete with automated.. read more  

A database permissions change led to a Cloudflare outage by creating an oversized feature file, causing network failures initially mistaken for a DDoS attack.

Valkey 9.0 debuts with atomic slot migrations, hash field expiration, and improved cluster mode support, enhancing data management and scalability.

Grafana 12.3 enhances user experience with interactive learning, improved logs visualization, and a critical security fix, alongside new features like dashboard image export and expanded data source support.

Segment gutted its old permissions table—bloated, slow, tangled in logic - and replaced it with a lean, service-based setup. The new stack runs onPostgres,Redis, and a sharply tunedGo API, cutting query times from 1400ms to under 100ms. Clean, fast, and centralized... read more  

Terraform, Pulumi, and Crossplane take very different routes to Infrastructure as Code.Terraformsticks to a declarative HCL model with a massive provider ecosystem.Pulumiflips the script—developers write infrastructure in real languages, so logic is testable and dynamic.Crossplane? It runs inside Ku.. read more  

AWS. Google Cloud. Azure. CrowdStrike. All hit hard by dumb bugs with big blast radii - race conditions, nulls, misfired configs. Small cracks. Massive fallout. AWS's DNS automation knocked out its DynamoDB endpoint, dragging 113 services down with it. Google Cloud’s global APIs fell over from a str.. read more  

Helix keeps things lean - and that's the point. It ships withLSP support, multi-cursor editing, and smart search baked in. No dotfile gymnastics required. That alone has peeled some loyalists off Vim and Neovim. Still rough around the edges. No persistent undo. No auto-reload. Markdown support's a b.. read more  

A dev split KVM/QEMU VMs out of a shared ZFS directory and into their own ZFS filesystems. Why? Snapshot rollbacks. Finer-grained storage control. Clean. The new setup rides a fresh ZFS pool tuned with a 64KBrecordsizefor QCOW2 images. That lines up virtual disk performance with the real IO under th.. read more