During the AWS us-east-1 meltdown - when DynamoDB, IAM, and other key services went dark - Authress kept the lights on. Their trick? A ruthless edge-first, multi-region setup built for failure. They didn’t hope DNS would save them. They wired in automated failover, rolled their own health checks, an.. read more  

When working with Terraform in a team environment, common issues may arise such as state locking, version mismatches, untracked local applies, and lack of transparency. Atlantis is an open-source tool that can help streamline collaboration by automatically running Terraform commands based on GitHub .. read more  

Vigilant runs distributed uptime checks with self-registeringGo-based "outposts"scattered across the globe. Each one handles HTTP and Ping, reports back latency by region, and calls home over HTTPS. The magic handshake? Vigilant plays root CA, handing outephemeral TLS certson the fly... read more  

The authors discuss the development of a new automation infrastructure post-merger, leading to a unified automation project that can handle all cultures, languages, and clients efficiently. They chose Playwright over Cypress for its improved resource usage and faster execution times, aligning better.. read more  

Sauce Labs just dropped a reality check:95% of orgshave fumbled AI projects. The kicker?82% don’t have the QA talent or toolsto keep things from breaking. Even worse,61% of leaders don’t get software testing 101, leaving AI pipelines full of holes - cultural, procedural, and otherwise. System shift:.. read more  

Netflix overhauled its logging pipeline to chew through5 PB/day. The stack now leans onClickHousefor speed andApache Icebergto keep storage costs sane. Out went regex fingerprinting - slow and clumsy. In came aJFlex-generated lexerthat actually keeps up. They also ditched generic serialization in fa.. read more  

A missingVPC Gateway Endpointsent EC2-to-S3 traffic through aNAT Gateway, lighting up over$1,000in unnecessary data processing charges. All that for in-region traffic hitting an AWS service. Why? AWS defaulted the route to the NAT Gateway. It only takes the free S3 Gateway Endpoint if youtellit to. .. read more  

A Linux user takes FreeBSD for a spin - and comes away impressed. What stands out? Clean, deliberate engineering.Boot environmentsmake updates stress-free. The newpkgbasesystem adds modularity without chaos. And the OS treatsuptimenot just as a metric, but as a design goal. The essay makes a solid c.. read more  

This post outlines the various Terraform project files and their purposes, such as vars.tf for default variable declarations, terraform.tfvars for overriding default variable values, terraform.tf for tfstate backends and provider declarations, version.tf for Terraform version constraints, and .terra.. read more  

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