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Together With Pulumi

TLDR DevOps 2025-07-28

Hands-on workshop series: from zero to IDP (Sponsor)

Building an Internal Developer Platform takes more than tools. It requires clear strategy, secure guardrails, and scalable infrastructure practices that balance developer autonomy with operational control.

Pulumi's free IDP Builder Series will cover these topics in hands-on workshops, starting July 30. Over the course of 3 x 120 minutes sessions, you'l learn how to:

  • Design IDP strategy and golden path templates
  • Secure platforms with policy as code and drift remediation
  • Scale to support AI workloads and integrate existing Terraform

Workshops are led by Pulumi experts who've built production-ready IDPs and include live demos, code examples, and implementation guides.

Register now →

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News & Trends

CircleCI Launches Platform Team Toolkit (4 minute read)

CircleCI introduced the Platform Team Toolkit to unify control and velocity by allowing platform teams to manage multiple pipelines with a single configuration while preserving developer flexibility. The toolkit automates pipeline orchestration, enforces governance through templates and policies, and enables developers to customize workflows without compromising organizational standards.
Celebrating 10 years of GKE: Incredible customer journeys, amazing AI futures (5 minute read)

Google Kubernetes Engine is 10 years old. It now powers cutting-edge AI workloads with tools like Autopilot, enabling performance gains, cost efficiency, and innovation through automated infrastructure management.
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Opinions & Tutorials

Kubernetes Is Powerful, But Not Secure (at least not by default) (6 minute read)

Calico v3.30 introduces Admin Network Policy and Baseline Admin Network Policy standards to improve Kubernetes cluster security by allowing platform and security engineers to define a global security posture. The new version also includes Whisker, a UI dashboard for observability, and Staged Network Policy, which simulates the effect of a policy without enforcing it.
From Async/Await to Virtual Threads (7 minute read)

Async/await exposed more developers to concurrency but introduced complexity and leaky abstractions. Structured concurrency and virtual threads offer a simpler model with clearer task relationships and blocking-style APIs, shifting complexity into the runtime.
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Resources & Tools

Adapting to AI Coding Agents: a Conversation With Anthropic's DevX Team (Sponsor)

This Wednesday, Coder is hosting Anthropic's Catherine Wu and Jacqueline Lee to discuss:

  • How AI agents have redefined developer experience
  • Secure, scalable DevX in an AI-native company
  • Predictions for the future of AI-integrated workflows

July 30th. Join now

Robinzhon (GitHub Repo)

Robinzhon is a new Python library for quick and concurrent downloads of S3 objects.
Pogocache (GitHub Repo)

Pogocache is fast caching software built from scratch with a focus on low latency and CPU efficiency.
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Miscellaneous

Accelerate safe software releases with new built-in blue/green deployments in Amazon ECS (6 minute read)

Amazon ECS now includes built-in blue/green deployment functionality that enables safer, rollback-capable application updates without custom tooling, helping teams deploy faster and more reliably. Developers can configure lifecycle hooks using AWS Lambda for validation and testing during deployment stages, ensuring any issues are caught before production traffic shifts and allowing near-instant rollback if needed.
Improving GitLab's deletion flow: What to expect in coming months (4 minute read)

GitLab has introduced a unified deletion flow that includes pending deletion, self-service recovery, clear status indicators, and a 30-day recovery window across all tiers. Upcoming enhancements will add a centralized Trash interface, immediate path reuse, admin area consistency, and bulk deletion or recovery actions.
Tracking planes with Grafana in real time: How to visualize the aircraft overhead with your own dashboard (11 minute read)

A Grafana Labs Senior Solutions Architect built a Grafana dashboard to visualize real-time aircraft data using an ADS-B receiver and Grafana Cloud Logs. The dashboard uses Grafana's geomap visualization to plot aircraft positions, pulling data from a Go script that retrieves aircraft information every five seconds.

Quick Links

Kubernetes Complexity Realigns Platform Engineering Strategy (5 minute read)

Kubernetes' inherent complexity has led to tool sprawl, rising costs, and cognitive overload, prompting organizations to adopt platform engineering strategies to streamline workflows and reduce operational burden.
Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 8.1 (1 minute read)

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 8.1, incorporating enhancements like Bloom filters for memory-efficient lookups (up to 98% less memory than Set data type), a hash table implementation that improves throughput by 10%, and a COMMANDLOG feature for improved latency visibility.
PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data (4 minute read)

SQLite's Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) mode uses rolling checksums for frame validation, but if a checksum mismatch is found, SQLite silently discards that frame and all subsequent frames, potentially losing valid data without throwing an error.

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