A developer walks through building acustom GNU Guix system serviceforkmonad—yes, the keyboard remapper—by wiring up a newservice-typethat plugs intoShepherdandaccount-service-type. To get there, they lift patterns from services likewesnothd, usemake-forkexec-constructorto spin up the daemon, and de.. read more  

Truffle Security dropped a sharp new open-source tool that digs through GitHub’s public commit history looking forzero-commit force pushes—a tactic devs use to erase mistakes, usually secrets. Problem is, they don’t go quietly. By tapping into historical GitHub PushEvents via GH Archive, the tool h.. read more  

This Azure lab wires upTerraformwithAzure Pipelines CI/CDto spin up infrastructure and deploy a .NET Core app using IaC. It handles remote state with Azure Storage, automatesplanandapplyin pipelines, and swaps in config values via token replacement during deploy... read more  

AWS wants long-term IAM access keys gone. In their place:temporary creds via IAM roles,IAM Identity Center,CloudShell, andOIDC integrations. The push covers everything—CLI tools, local dev, compute, CI/CD, even old-school on-prem. The message is clear: rotate automatically, grant minimally, and sto.. read more  

Azure DevOps made it easier to link up with GitHub—no more re-installing the Azure Pipelines GitHub App to kick things off. Teams can spin up aGitHub App–based service connectiondirectly from a dummy pipeline setup. The service connection comes GitHub App–authenticated out of the gate. Super handy .. read more  

Microsoft’s moving the cheese again—this time steering Windows deep into the cloud. The old on-prem management playbook? Getting dusty. At the core:Intune, pushingZero Trustlike it means it. Identity-based access, always-on compliance, real-time config—no more trusting the device just because it’s .. read more  

A recent Cloudflare DNS outage traced back to legacy gear tangled with global config changes. Turns out, incomplete migrations can still pack a punch. Their newer topology system does support progressive rollouts—but running it side-by-side with the old one just made the blast radius bigger. System.. read more  

A fresh supply chain ambush—Scavenger—slipped into npm through the front door. Attackers phished maintainers of high-profile packages likeis,eslint-plugin-prettier, andsynckit, then dropped cross-platform JavaScript malware straight into the codebase. Real-time C2 channels included. They typosquatt.. read more  

Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is out of preview and ready to roll. It auto-scales compute and memory usingDCUsfor MongoDB-compatible clusters. No migration needed—just upgrade your existing instance and go. Available starting in version5.0, with per-second billing based on DCU burn. What’s new:Fixed.. read more  

vClustercuts Kubernetes infra costs by running virtual clusters as pods inside a shared host. No more spinning up full control planes for every tenant. Itslean Syncerfilters API traffic to keep clusters from melting down.Shared controllersand a built-insleep modekeep idle workloads quiet—and cheap... read more