Cloudrift, a read-only AWS waste scanner, is now available as a command-line tool that estimates monthly costs of wasted resources without modifying or deleting anything. The tool, installable via npm…
A developer published a field-tested method for auditing Rails + PostgreSQL performance without APM, using pg_stat_statements and pg_stat_activity. The playbook explains why cloud console dashboards l…
A developer building an AI routing platform chose Neon as their database partner, citing its branching feature, serverless driver for edge functions, auto-scaling storage, and connection pooling as id…
A developer built FailureDNA, a persistent memory system for incident-response agents that prevents them from repeating known failures or blindly reusing stale fixes. The system uses a deterministic v…
GitHub Copilot's Terraform code suggestions often introduce severe security vulnerabilities, such as opening security groups to the world or enabling public access on RDS instances, because the sugges…
Masterpoint is exploring whether AI can effectively review and approve infrastructure-as-code plans for production environments, aiming to auto-approve low-risk changes while flagging risky ones for h…
AWS announced Chaplin, an open-source solution using AI agents powered by Amazon Bedrock and the Model Context Protocol, to enable self-service health event analytics. The tool lets operations teams q…
Amazon S3 Annotations, introduced in June 2026, allow mutable, structured payloads up to 1 MB each to be attached directly to S3 objects, enabling context like transcripts and meeting minutes to live …
A developer published an ultra-concise tabular reference guide for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam (CLF-C02). The guide covers key domains including Cloud Concepts, Security and Compliance, …
BabyChain, a self-hosted canvas studio and durable chain API for image and video model workflows, has been launched. It allows users to design ComfyUI-style media chains on a canvas and call them from…
AWS MCP Server, which reached general availability in May 2026, now enables AI agents like GitHub Copilot to execute irreversible AWS operations—including terminating EC2 instances, deleting RDS datab…
The article describes a team's failed attempt to scale a treasure hunt engine by adding more MySQL instances behind a load balancer within a single AWS availability zone, which led to disk I/O and CPU…
AWS Backup is a fully managed service that provides a centralized dashboard for configuring backup policies across multiple AWS services, replacing the need for custom scripts or per-service manual sn…
Amazon RDS Reserved Instances offer significant cost savings compared to on-demand pricing, with discounts ranging from 29% on a 1-year No Upfront commitment to up to 69% on a 3-year All Upfront term,…
Effective AWS Savings Plan management requires a structured, ongoing strategy rather than a one-time purchase, as common mistakes like over-committing or under-committing can lead to significant finan…
DevOps engineer's experience inheriting a 47,000-line Terraform codebase with a single state file, no modules, and poorly named variables. The author explains how they refactored the infrastructure by…