Anthropic releasedClaude Skills—a lean way to snap specialized instructions and scripts into Claude without bloating the prompt. Each “skill” lives in a folder with Markdown and optional code. Frontmatter tags tell Claude when to load what. No need to cram everything into the context window—Claude g.. read more  

AI is sliding into DevSecOps and turning security into less of a slog. Tools likeDarktrace PREVENT,CrowdStrike Falcon, andMicrosoft Security Copilotaren't just watching—they're flagging weird behavior, proposing fixes, and unclogging patch pipelines inside CI/CD. The shift:DevSecOps is on its way to.. read more  

Shopify handles billions of Black Friday requests on amodular monolith, built with Ruby on Rails and kept in check byPackwerk. Domain boundaries are enforced. Chaos averted. Inside, it blendsHexagonal Architecture, isolatedPods, and real-time Kafka pipes. The system scales without fracturing into mi.. read more  

A developer built a razor-sharp TLS fingerprinting and blocking tool—all in kernel space—witheBPFandXDP. It hooks into incoming packets, scrapes TLS Client Hello messages, and cranks out simplified JA4-style hashes from their cipher suite lists. The fun part? It's running under tight stack limits, s.. read more  

DigitalSociety ditched AWS and DigitalOcean. Swapped the comfort of cloud for full control onHetzner, built onTalos Linux. PostgreSQL? Now running onCloudNativePG. Traffic flows throughIngress NGINXwithExternalDNShandling the names. The payoff: monthly costs dropped from $449.50 to under $100. ARM v.. read more  

A fresh setup shows how to runModel Context Protocol (MCP) servers over HTTPinsideAzure Container Apps—stateless, serverless, and ready for real-time jobs like live forex conversion. It pipes in a live API fallback, adds caching, and speaksJSON-RPC 2.0overPOST. You can spin it up withBicep templates.. read more  

Report URI closed the door on Redis CVE-2025-49844 fast. They rolled out ACL-based command blocks and jumped to Redis8.2.2, now running on a freshRedis Sentinel-based HA setup. To prove the fix stuck, they ran command counter checks and layered in enforced blocking rules—then pushed it all out fleet.. read more  

Pushing Kubernetes to 1M nodes isn’t just hardware—it's architectural judo. Networking flips to exclusive IPv6.Less chatter, more breathing room. etcd hits a wall.Write throughput stalls at scale, so they swap it out. Entermem_etcd, a Rust-built replacement pushing over 1M buffered writes per second.. read more  

Docker droppedBuildx debuggingfor VS Code. Set breakpoints in your Dockerfiles. Peek into image layers. Even jump into an interactive shell mid-build. It runs on theDebug Adapter Protocol, so editors likeNeovimandJetBrains IDEscan join the party too... read more  

Istio 1.27.2 locks down TLS secret access in Gateway API mode. Now, both the namespace and service account have to match. No more half-matching your way in. It also drops the install order dependency betweenistioctl’s pilot and CNI. You can now install those in whatever order your chaos-loving soul .. read more