Digest #172: Kubernetes 2.0, GCP Incident and AWS Lambda Hacks
What a modern Kubernetes reboot might look like, why SELECT FOR UPDATE can cause more harm than good, how Pinterest handles EC2 throttling, and why some AI agents are just overcomplicated SQL queries.
Welcome to this week’s edition of the DevOps Bulletin!
This week, we explore what a hypothetical Kubernetes 2.0 might look like and whether it’s time to rethink core assumptions like controllers, CRDs, and YAML. We also broke down Google Cloud’s latest public incident write-up in plain terms and asked a tough question: Why are we building AI agents to answer things an SQL query could handle better? Plus, we dig into how NAT and packet mangling work in Linux, and how Pinterest handles EC2 network throttling at scale. One more thing: if you’ve ever spent an hour fighting with port forwarding to share a local app, ngrok’s no-config API sharing guide might save your next afternoon.
All this and more in this week’s DevOps Bulletin—don’t miss out!
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Projects of the week
AI-powered Postgres client for instant, schema-aware SQL exploration; runs locally so your data and credentials stay on your machine.
Hurl is a command-line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple, plain-text format.
Go-based SSH and SCP client with userspace Tailscale connectivity. Secure shell access and file transfers over Tailnet without requiring a full Tailscale daemon.
Git Smart Squash is an AI-powered CLI that restructures messy commit histories into clean, conventional commits.
Unregistry is a lightweight container image registry that stores and serves images directly from your Docker daemon's storage.
ttl.sh is an anonymous, expiring Docker container registry using the official Docker Registry image.
Meme of the week
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