DevOps Bulletin

Digest #184: Database Ransomware, 2 billion AWS Requests, AI-Powered Kubernetes, and DevOps Skills Worth $200K

Database ransomware attacks, AWS bots gone wild, Terraform’s new secret-hiding trick, Shopify’s 30TB/min monolith, and the skills set to earn DevOps…

Oct 17 • 

Mohamed Labouardy

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Digest #183: GitHub Actions Exploit, Malicious MCP Server, Redis RCE, Scaling MySQL for 150M+ users

Orca Security exposes a GitHub Actions exploit letting forked PRs inject malicious code, Snyk finds a fake MCP server harvesting emails, Wiz reveals a…

Oct 10 • 

Mohamed Labouardy

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Digest #182: Vibe-Coded App Risks, GitHub npm Security, Zero-Downtime DB Migration & Kubernetes Load Balancing

Discover DevOps news: vibe-coded app security flaws, LogSeam’s 500M logs/sec, GitHub npm supply chain plan, zero-downtime DB migration, K8s load…

Oct 3 • 

Mohamed Labouardy

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September 2025

Digest #181: GitHub Actions Bypass, K8s Databases, Azure Token Flaw, Postgres Partitioning and Running Linux in Docker

GitHub Actions fork exploit, Kubernetes operators solving database management, Grab’s auth system for 180M users, Azure Entra ID token flaw, and…

Sep 27 • 

Mohamed Labouardy

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Digest #180: Prometheus Scaling, npm Supply Chain Attack, Securing GitHub Actions and Windows Apps on Linux

AWS S3 Vectors spark debate, npm faces a supply-chain attack, Terraform gets a rethink, Prometheus scales to 80M metrics, and Signadot shows how to tame…

Sep 19 • 

Mohamed Labouardy

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Digest #179: Vibe Coding Hype, DevOps Exercises, Terraform+MCP, Windows inside a Docker

AI coding isn’t a silver bullet, Rust beats microservices for simplicity, Kubernetes adds cost-saving features, AWS beginners get easy tips, and you can…

Sep 12 • 

Mohamed Labouardy

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Digest #178: GitHub Secrets Leak, Building an AI Server, Docker→Kubernetes and ArgoCD Anti-Patterns

GitHub secrets, the real story behind CPU utilization, staging environment fixes from Signadot, Docker vs Podman, Redis caching, ArgoCD anti-patterns…

Sep 5 • 

Mohamed Labouardy

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August 2025

Digest #177: AWS in 2025, HashiCorp Vault Zero-Day Flaws, Why No SRE, Docker-Compose Tricks

AWS changes you thought you knew, Netflix’s Java-powered stack, nine zero-day flaws in HashiCorp Vault, why an SRE team isn’t always needed, and…

Aug 22 • 

Mohamed Labouardy

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Digest #176: AWS Account Wipe, Pinterest’s Kubernetes Bug, Kamal + Terraform Deployment

Git worktrees, AI-powered security forms, threat detection at Netflix, sharding explained simply, SQL-writing LLMs, and open-source gems like Hetty and…

Aug 8 • 

Mohamed Labouardy

Digest #175: Zero Secrets on GCP, AI Malware in npm, Kubernetes Tips, GitHub Actions with Claude

GCP scan reveals no exposed secrets, Netflix shares a 60-second Linux performance guide, AI-generated npm malware targets Solana wallets, plus tutorials…

Aug 1 • 

Mohamed Labouardy

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July 2025

Digest #174: MCP Best Practices, Amazon Q Hack, Kubernetes Savings, Terraform generation with Claude

Malicious prompt hits Amazon Q, GitHub Actions cache gets a 10× speed boost, and a live GPU cost-cutting workshop for Kubernetes teams.

Jul 25 • 

Mohamed Labouardy

Digest #173: Figma’s $300K/day AWS bill, Soham Parekh and MCP security checklist

How Uber saved 50% on CI, what’s behind Figma’s $300K/day AWS bill, why IAM needs an attack-graph approach, and the latest open source projects.

Jul 4 • 

Mohamed Labouardy