From Sandbox to Playbook: Fluid Turns CLI Work into Reproducible Infra
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Fluid lets you safely experiment in a sandbox and then export your steps as an auditable, reproducible Ansible playbook.
DevOps
Practices and tools for automating software deployment, infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and operations — including Ansible, Terraform, containerization, and the culture of bridging development and operations teams.
Reading List
Ditch the Cloud: Run a Few Linux Servers and Save 10x
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Most apps can ditch managed cloud for a couple of solid Linux servers and save 10x while keeping performance and control.
Bots Overwhelmed Bear’s Reverse Proxy—What Broke and How It’s Now Hardened
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Aggressive scrapers overwhelmed Bear’s reverse proxy, prompting a hardening of monitoring, capacity, and bot controls in an ongoing battle with hostile bot traffic.
AWS Outage Exposes Cost of Brain Drain and Lost Tribal Knowledge
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AWS’s big US-EAST-1 faceplant wasn’t just DNS—it was a brain-drain problem laid bare.
DORA 2025: AI Is Ubiquitous—Success Demands Organizational Change
AI is now standard in development, delivering productivity gains—but real success requires organizational change, not just tool adoption.
Terraform State Is a Graph, Not a File
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Stop treating Terraform state like a file—manage it as a graph with ACID transactions to unlock safe concurrency and faster operations.
Ditching Docker: Why Podman’s Rootless, Daemonless Model Wins
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Ditch Docker’s privileged daemon for Podman’s rootless, daemonless, Kubernetes-aligned workflow that’s more secure and just as easy to use.