DevOps, CI/CD & Platform Engineering

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (887+ words) You must use a kubectl version that is within one minor version difference of your cluster. For example, a v1.37 client can communicate with v1.36, v1.37, and v1.38 control planes. Using the latest compatible version of kubectl helps avoid unforeseen issues. The following methods…...

6+ hour, 56+ min ago   (633+ words) Each of the three Abacus.AI Smaug models targets a different slice of enterprise agentic AI work, and each is built on a different open-weight base rather than a proprietary Abacus.AI architecture. What Abacus.AI calls “Smaug” isn’t just…...

11+ hour, 33+ min ago   (442+ words) Security teams reading these numbers should treat them as a prompt to audit their own environment rather than assume the risk belongs to someone else. AWS’s IAM console can generate a full credential report showing every access key’s age and…...

1+ hour, 45+ min ago   (1655+ words) Most teams still pick one LLM and send every request to it. That worked in 2023 when there were three viable models. In 2026, with dozens of frontier, mid-tier, and specialist models — each with different pricing, latency, and quality profiles — committing to…...

2+ hour, 3+ min ago   (1254+ words) How measuring Kubernetes node storage usage led to a simpler capacity decision in an Amazon EKS cluster. In Engineering Build Notes #1, I investigated what initially looked like an opportunity to reduce worker-node capacity. The nodes appeared to have more capacity…...

3+ hour, 10+ min ago   (905+ words) Last month I let AI write 100% of my code for 30 days. The single loudest lesson wasn't "AI is amazing" or "AI is useless." It was one sentence: the thing that writes the code can never be the thing that reviews…...

3+ hour, 5+ min ago   (564+ words) Disclosure: I maintain Selvedge, an open-source decision-history tool. This article was prepared with AI assistance from Grok and Codex. The example below is hypothetical and uses plain Markdown; it does not require a particular product. A repository can show what…...

3+ hour, 23+ min ago   (244+ words) While tech review articles argue about what PR length is safe to let an agent produce, the review problem is set by a simpler number: how often the agent is wrong. Specific Labs' Real-SWE benchmark, published September 2026, runs frontier agents…...

3+ hour, 38+ min ago   (415+ words) I was building a tool that detects when data quietly changes meaning — a vendor switching units, a source dropping a field, an undocumented enum appearing. The kind of failure where every test passes and every job is green. Claims about…...

3+ hour, 58+ min ago   (1081+ words) Most people learn AWS by studying individual services. RDS is a database. But that's not how AWS is used in the real world. In a real project, these services work together to solve one problem: How do we run an…...