DevOps

How to secure Azure storage with Managed identities for a web app

Introduction Building a new app is exciting but shipping an app with poorly secured storage is a headline waiting to happen. When developers build app…

One CVE, four ignore files: unifying Trivy, Grype, Snyk and osv-scanner

You triaged the CVE. A scanner flagged CVE-2023-45853 in zlib, you read the advisory, confirmed the vulnerable code path isn’t reachable from your ima…

Writing robust regular expressions for log lines

A regular expression that parses a log line in your editor and a regular expression that survives a week of real traffic are rarely the same expressio…

Shipping 12,000+ Lines Across 6 Systems in 19 Days: A Masterclass in Backend Architecture.

What looked like a chaotic sprint was actually a strict exercise in architectural discipline. The last time I published on Dev.to was in late May. At …

Stop shipping a stale .env.example

A .env.example is the one file in your repo that nobody runs, nobody tests, and everybody trusts. It’s the contract a new teammate reads on day one to…

Not Your Weights, Not Your Workflow

I left a multi-agent refactor running overnight. By morning the model was gone, pulled out from under me by a government I don't even vote for, on the…

Supercharging Kubernetes: How eBPF is Revolutionizing SRE and Platform Engineering

The ecosystem surrounding Kubernetes has always been a rapidly moving target. Just when Site Reliability Engineers and Platform Engineers feel they ha…

What is Docker? Containerization Made Simple

By Sailee Shingare | M.S. in Computer Science, Northern Illinois University (NIU) In the last post, we learned what containers are — lightweight, port…

Service Bindings - A Better Way to Connect Apps to Databases

The Engineer Who Owns Nothing: A Cautionary Tale

I'm going to tell you about an engineer I worked with. Call him Mark. Mark was talented, well-liked, and utterly ineffective. Here's what I learned fr…

Most beginners misuse these Git branch commands: main, checkout -b, switch -c, and push -u explained

Why these Git commands confuse so many beginners A lot of developers use these commands from memory: git branch -M main git checkout -b feature/inicia…

Still Looking for Hackathon Teammates

Reposting because I still haven't found enough people and I'd really love to build a strong team for upcoming hackathons. Seems like there aren't many…

I read the 21-comment OpenClaw UI thread and I think everyone is arguing about the wrong thing

A few days ago I was digging through Reddit threads to see how people are actually running OpenClaw once it stops being a weekend toy and starts touch…

You Might Not Need Docker: The Case for Lightweight, Headless VMs

Lately, whenever I need to run a quick experiment or spin up a localized environment with multiple moving pieces, I've completely stopped using Docker…

MongoDB DR Drill Automation with Terraform, Python & Jenkins — How We Made Restores Boring

Backups Don't Save You. Restores Do. We ran a MongoDB restore drill last quarter. It failed — not the restore itself, but the confidence. Nobody in th…

How Kong's Control Plane / Data Plane Split Cut Our Gateway Costs by 34% (And Made It a Security Layer)

The Problem With How Most Teams Run Kong If you set up Kong the default way, everything lives together — routing, policy enforcement, plugin execution…

Your package.json diffs are noisy for no reason. I built a zero-dep fixer.

Open a PR, and half the package.json diff is keys that didn't actually change — they just moved . One teammate's editor writes name at the top, npm in…

Open-Source Multi-Agent Orchestration: Lessons from AgentForge

We built AgentForge to solve our own problem. Here's what 6 months of production multi-agent deployment taught us. Lesson 1: Start with Failure Modes,…

Day 14 of #100DaysOfClickHouse: Understanding Nodes, Shards, and Replicas

When people first start learning ClickHouse®, they usually focus on SQL queries, table engines, and performance optimization. But as data grows from m…

I stopped trusting “same answers, fewer tokens” after watching an agent lose 1 field name and burn 3 hours

I used to hear the pitch for context compression and think: sure, makes sense. Smaller prompts. Lower latency. Lower cost. Same output quality. Then I…

How to Control CloudWatch Logs Costs on ECS

Your AWS bill shows CloudWatch at $400 this month. You have 15 ECS services logging INFO-level with retention set to Never Expire. You didn't configur…

I got tired of SSH and Loki for four containers, so I built DockLog

If you run a few containers on one VPS or homelab box, you've probably lived this loop: SSH in docker logs -f something Realize someone else on your t…

A zero-dep CLI that scans your GitHub Actions for the mistakes that actually get repos compromised

Your CI workflow is the softest target in your repo. It runs automatically, it has a GITHUB_TOKEN that can push commits, and it can read your secrets.…

Stop Using Discord as a Bug Tracker: How I Built a Lean, AI-Powered Feedback Loop

As developers, we are at our best when we are left alone to write clean code. We are at our absolute worst when we have to play full-time customer sup…

Why 60% of Enterprises Are Shipping Untested Code in 2026 (And How Agentic QA Fixes It)

The 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report buried a stat that should be on every engineering leader's radar: 60% of enterprises are shipping untested code …

Common mistakes when building a multi-domain photo app (CZ/SK/PL/EN/DE from one codebase)

At Inithouse, a studio shipping a growing portfolio of products in parallel, we run an AI photo animation tool across five country domains from a sing…

What is Virtualization? The Technology Behind the Cloud

By Sailee Shingare | M.S. in Computer Science, Northern Illinois University (NIU) In my last post, I said the cloud is essentially “someone else’s com…

Scarab Diagnostic Field Test #026 — Next.js Turbopack Denied-Path Watcher Boundary

Target: vercel/next.js Issue: vercel/next.js#81161 PR: vercel/next.js#94735 Field Lab: https://github.com/scarab-systems/scarab-field-lab This field t…

Datadog and AWS Shipped Ops Agents on the Same Day. What Are They Fighting Over?

On June 9, 2026 (US time), two big announcements landed on the same day. At the keynote of Datadog's annual event DASH 2026 in New York, the Bits AI f…

Guard Skills: The AI Code Quality Alternative That Catches Failure Modes Before They Ship

Guard Skills: The AI Code Quality Alternative That Catches Failure Modes Before They Ship If you're looking for a serious AI code quality alternative …