DevOps & Cloud

The comparison that keeps coming up is "BrassCoders or CodeRabbit?" The framing is understandable but misses the real question: these tools don't occupy the sam

I originally installed Prefect because a client wanted scheduled data processing. Continue reading on Medium »

Learn what Docker containers are, how they work, understand the complete container lifecycle, and master the Docker commands every… Continue reading on Medium »

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The latest update to hermes-memory-installer addresses a critical gap in operational monitoring: the alert mechanism for host resource pressure was failing to t

Nginx is a gate that sits between the internet and the servers. When a client requests a resource, the request first goes to this gate… Continue reading on Medi

A tiny coding CLI has an awkward failure mode: the prompt leaves the terminal, the spinner stops, and nobody knows whether the task ran. Retrying feels producti

Every incident has two clocks. Continue reading on Medium »

A recent commit in the hermes-memory-installer project updated a consistency note in the documentation to remove a direct commit hash reference. The message: do

Restart policies, memory limits, log rotation, healthchecks, named volumes — five compose keys that separate a demo from a deploy. Continue reading on Medium »

🚀 MyZubster is Live! From Zero to Production on a VPS After hours of development and debugging, MyZubster is now live and accessible on a production VPS! 📌 Wh

Originally published at curatedmcp.com/blog/week-2026-30 MCP Ecosystem Week 30: When Your Developers' AI Tools Connect to Everything—What's in Your Allowlist? T

I sat down on a Saturday to self-host SigNoz and hit this in the repo's deploy/ folder: Note: The install.sh script and the docker-compose manifests have been d

Connecting the SigNoz MCP server to Claude Code, a real latency hunt, and the traps that make the AI confidently wrong. A service in my stack got slow: p99 late

An MCP server can start successfully and still be the wrong thing to put in a production host. The decisive evidence is not the JSON you… Continue reading on Me

Infrastructure setup is one of the most repeated tasks in software development. Every new project needs a database, a cache, a message… Continue reading on ITNE

Force-push is not delete. It’s hide. Reflog is the map back. Continue reading on Stackademic »

The deploy was fine. The resolver cache was not. Continue reading on Stackademic »

Your monitoring cannot tell broken from off. Mine could not either. I run 33 processes. Agents, bridges, workers, a payment layer. Last week I opened my own sys

Recovery looked clean until every unit came back on the exact same clock tick and took the database down a second time. Continue reading on Medium »

Two beat processes. One Redis lock key typo. Invoices sent at 09:00 and 09:00. Continue reading on Python in Plain English »

Deploying AWS DevOps Agent with Grafana MCP integration, PagerDuty webhooks, and custom investigation skills for multi-account incident… Continue reading on Med

MCP servers are becoming production dependencies. If an agent depends on a server, that server needs the same basic safety net as any other production integrati

Schedule jobs inside the database, with transactional guarantees and a history table that never lies about what actually ran Continue reading on Medium »

The winners are not the flashiest copilots. They are the tools that reduce deployment risk, incident noise, Kubernetes cost, security… Continue reading on Mediu

default-address-pools is not a suggestion. 16-bit subnets exhaust faster than you think. Continue reading on Stackademic »

127.0.0.11 does not fail loudly. It fails sometimes, for some containers, on some queries. Continue reading on Artificial Intelligence in Plain English »

512MB times 8 is not 512MB. Baseline memory times workers plus imports equals kube murder. Continue reading on Medium »

Many of your CI pipelines can easily be manipulated to execute any code with a single force-push. And you likely unwittingly enabled this… Continue reading on M

Connections went out. They never came back. PgBouncer couldn’t save us from ourselves. Continue reading on Python in Plain English »

The escalation policy had four levels. Every level pointed at the same out-of-office calendar block. Continue reading on Stackademic »

The deploy correlation was real. The timestamp alignment was fiction. Continue reading on Python in Plain English »

Full research and the plugin → github.com/bcanfield/agentic-tech-debt Continue reading on Medium »

ColdFusion writes its logs through Apache Log4j2 under the hood, and in 2025 the right logging strategy is to move from plain-text log lines to structured JSON

A step-by-step hands-on guide with 5 live demos that actually work Continue reading on Medium »

Technical Analysis: Agents-CLI Overview Agents-CLI is a command-line interface (CLI) tool designed to manage and interact with various services, applications, a

Every team I have worked on has a folder full of runbooks that nobody trusts. The runbooks were written during or right after an incident, by someone who was ti

Let me be honest about my Linux level first, because this whole article depends on it. I live in my IDE. These days, an agentic desktop. I write prompts, I revi

The rootless crowd and the Docker loyalists are both right — about different machines. Six months of running both, and the answer turned… Continue reading on St

Look, your Confluence wiki is not a war room instrument. Here is what actually fits on one screen when production is on fire. Continue reading on Stackademic »

The hot key wasn’t the problem. Forty-seven thousand cache misses per second were. Continue reading on Production Engineering Playbook »

When the war room spent sixty minutes debating instead of reverting — and the error rate chart kept climbing. Continue reading on AWS in Plain English »

When persistence is off — and a routine deploy becomes a cold-cache stampede. Continue reading on AWS in Plain English »

i have made a git repo for it added all the code small code not any big ones but i need help to how i should do the prduction part and how and where to release

If you’ve spent any time around developers, you’ve heard the phrase “it works on my machine” — usually said right before something breaks… Continue reading on M

Your apps want your attention. The terminal just wants your command. Continue reading on Medium »

How HashiCorp’s greed and the IBM acquisition triggered the biggest open-source migration in DevOps history. Continue reading on The Tech Notes »

“A successful deployment is one that users never notice.”  Continue reading on Medium »