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Formatting an entire 25 million line codebase overnight: the rubyfmt story

Stripe's Developer Productivity team rolled out rubyfmt, a Rust-based zero-config Ruby autoformatter, across 25 million lines of Ruby in one Saturday morning in 2024, after the project had been in flight since 2018 as Fable Tales's personal OSS work. The hard parts were Ruby itself (no Ruby parser e.. read more  

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Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo

The Dutch Ministry of the Interior launched code.overheid.nl, a self-hosted Forgejo instance for government source code. This move was driven by the need to own and control the platform where code is published. Forgejo was chosen over GitLab for its open-source nature and alignment with the ministry.. read more  

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Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)

A game developer explains how he built a low-level modding language, including sandbox constraints, an AArch64 JIT, and a small C++ compiler... read more  

Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)
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Replacing a 3 GB SQLite database with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary

Andrew Quinn shipped Taskusanakirja (tsk), a Finnish-English pocket dictionary with search-as-you-type, originally backed by a trie for ~400k base words plus a 3 GB SQLite FTS database to cover the 40-60M inflected forms that Finnish's agglutinative morphology demands. Reaching for BurntSushi'sIndex.. read more  

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The Pulse: AI load breaks GitHub – why not other vendors?

GitHub leaders created the reliability problems through weak capacity planning. As AI-agent users drove heavier traffic, GitHub engineers found migration risk and engineering debt that teams had allowed to build up... read more  

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Mirantis has entered into an agreement to be acquired by IREN

Mirantis has agreed to an acquisition by IREN. The companies have announced no customer-facing product changes... read more  

Mirantis has entered into an agreement to be acquired by IREN
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What kubectl debug doesn’t tell you: The silent evidence gap

kubectl debugsessions leave almost no forensic trace: by design,EphemeralContainerStatushas nolastStateorrestartCount, so the exit code, session duration, target container, and debugger logs disappear from the Kubernetes API the moment anything else updates the pod. That breaks incident handoffs (th.. read more  

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Extending AI gateways with Rust

Every gateway ships with a set of built-in policies. Authentication. Rate limiting. Request routing. Prompt guards. These cover most use cases. But what about the ones they don’t cover? What if you need to add a custom header based on a database lookup? What if you need to transform a request body i.. read more  

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v1.36: Deprecation and removal of Service ExternalIPs

Kubernetes v1.36 deprecatesService.spec.externalIPsand starts the removal path, finally closing CVE-2020-8554, the trust-everyone hole the field has carried since the early days. The project has recommended disabling it via theDenyServiceExternalIPsadmission controller since v1.21, but SIG Network h.. read more  

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When AI agents become contributors: How KubeStellar reached 81% PR acceptance

The KubeStellar Console team learned that AI coding agents improve after engineers build deterministic feedback loops into the codebase. Engineers who grant more autonomy give agents more room to guess, with no new correction signal... read more  

When AI agents become contributors: How KubeStellar reached 81% PR acceptance
It takes the brightest minds to be a technology leader. It takes imagination to create green energy for the generations to come. At Siemens Gamesa we make real what matters, join our global team.

Siemens Gamesa has a vision for renewable energy: we believe in the power of nature and technology. Help us to be ready to face the energy challenges of tomorrow and make a green footprint – join the team in creating a better future for us on our planet.

We focus on hiring the best people, wherever they may be in the world. We pride ourselves on the flexibility we offer to our employees and are committed to building a workforce that can grow with the company. Siemens Gamesa is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

In our culture of trust, we focus on empowerment, diversity and continuous learning. Valuing our people is what makes us one global team, with our colleagues’ safety at the heart of our organization.

Read stories from our employees, and get to know your future team: https://www.sebrochure.dk/Siemens_Gamesa_Renewable_Energy/WebView/

How to contribute to our vision

For our DevOps team within the Software Solutions division we are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our growing, and dedicated DevOps team. In the department, we are responsible for the SW test strategy, the enforcement of it, and the creation and maintenance of build- and test environments in which automated tests are executed. This involves both HIL setups and small to large virtual environments, thus handling both the hard real-time and large scalability requirements. We operate 2 data centers and 2 test labs.

The introduction of Continuous Delivery is a strategic goal of the department; our team has been given the responsibility of introducing it. You will join an inspiring and high performing multinational team.

As DevOps Engineer, your tasks and deliverables are mainly lead the development teams’ transformation to Continuous Delivery, i.e. implement their Chef based server stack, create the QA part of the Jenkins pipeline. The product and system level tests are run in either a VM environment or the physical HW. You will manage and optimize the utilization of these environments while reducing bottlenecks in the delivery pipelines.

Together with the rest of the DevOps team you develop state of the art SW tools and make the decision proposals. You implement these tools in the development projects for them to move faster. As member of the DevOps team you carry the operational responsibility of these tools.

You act as the technical expert across multiple development projects helping them in keeping their delivery pipeline running. The projects range from deeply embedded controllers over large SCADA server systems to central fleet management systems. Together with the rest of the DevOps team you ensure the operational side of our large HW and VMware test environment.

You will implement parts of our cybersecurity strategy by implementing relevant verifications in the pipelines and ensure a short lead time.

What you need to make a difference

Passion for renewable energy and a sense for the importance to lead the change.  We are looking for you, who wants to make real what matters and who wants to change the world towards renewable energy.

The ideal candidate holds an academic degree in IT, Computer Science or similar in combination with thorough practical experience with

Continuous Integration/Delivery and DevOps
Applying agile software development practices (e.g. SAFe & SCRUM)
GitLab, Gitflow, Artifactory, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes and Chef
You have strong DevOps understanding of the state of the art build and code level QA tolls for C#, C++ and web development.
You have basic knowledge of BDD, Cucumber - Ruby.
You are not afraid of asking questions and taking the lead in developing the team, methods and frameworks.

Most importantly is your passion for continuous delivery and smooth operations in larger organizations. You have a high professional competency and you have a desire to develop your skills. You have good collaboration skills and you can manage to act in different cultural contexts. To thrive in this position, you must have a strong result- and customer-oriented approach.

In return of your commitment we offer you…

Become a part of our mission for sustainability: Clean energy for generations to come. We are a global team of diverse colleagues who share a passion for renewable energy and have a culture of trust and empowerment to make our own ideas a reality. We focus on personal and professional development to grow internally within our organization. Siemens Gamesa offers a wide variety of benefits such as flexible working hours as well as home-office possibility for many colleagues, employer-funded pension, attractive remuneration package (fixed/variable) and local benefits such as subsidized lunch, employee discounts and much more.

Empowering our people

https://www.siemensgamesa.com/sustainability/employees

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How do you imagine the future?

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Our global team is on the front line of tackling the climate crisis, reducing carbon emissions – the greatest challenge we face.