AWS’s us-east-1 faceplanted for 14 hours after arace conditioninDynamoDBkicked off a DNS meltdown, taking down 140 services. EC2 buckled under acongestive collapse, overwhelmed by a backup in DropletWorkflow Manager queues. Meanwhile, NLB health checks kept firing blanks - tricked by stale network s..

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Nanit ditched S3’s PutObject-heavy ingest path and built a customRust-based in-memory landing zone (N3). It cut ~$500K/year in storage ops. N3 grabs short-lived video chunks straight into RAM and only spills to S3 when it has to. Ordering stays tight thanks toSQS FIFO, and fallback kicks in clean wh..

A plain-oldgit repo on an SSH-accessible servercan double as a lean deployment rig. Drop in somegit hooks- like apost-receive- and every push can kick off static site builds or publish code on the spot. No extra tools. Just Git doing Git things. Turns basic Git infra into a no-frills CI/CD pipeline...

A new stealth rootkit calledLinkProjust surfaced, taking aim at AWS-hosted Linux boxes. It blends two customeBPF programsfor deep concealment and remote activation via magic packets. The path in?CVE-2024-23897—an RCE on a public Jenkins server. From there, attackers slipped into Amazon EKS clusters,..

Learn how to manage secrets with the External Secrets Operator and plug it into Argo CD to power your Internal Developer Platform without manual management, enabling self-service secrets management and secure connections between workload clusters and the control plane. With a chain of trust between ..

LSM trees fix the mess naive key-value stores run into. They blendin-memory sorted indexeswithappend-only disk filesto keep things snappy. Writes get logged, not scattered. Reads stay fast. When files pile up,compaction and segmentingkick in to keep storage lean. This is a rewrite of the storage pla..

The Maestro engine has been revamped for jaw-dropping improvement: a speed boost of100Xwith overhead slashed from seconds to milliseconds. The groundbreaking redesign delivers massive performance gains, solving past workflow development hurdles and elevating user experiences sky-high!..

A developer cracked Kindle Cloud Reader’s font obfuscation, sidestepping randomized glyph swaps withSVG renderingandSSIM-powered perceptual hashingto rebuild actual EPUBs. Amazon rotates font mappings every five pages, using finicky micro-paths to jam scrapers and derail OCR. It wasn’t enough. Syste..

The 2025 State of AI Report just landed—China’s catching up fast on reasoning and coding. Models like DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi are starting to nip at OpenAI’s heels. AI is thinking longer-term now. Reinforced reasoning and rubric-style feedback are pushing models into deeper, more deliberate plannin..

Pre-commit hooks catch secrets and fix formatting before bad stuff hits your repo. But if they’re clunky or slow, devs bail. Tools likePre-Commit,Husky, anddevenvare trying to fix that.devenvstands out—hooks are baked right into your Nix env, no extra glue scripts...