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 pros $200K in 2026. Plus new devtools.

Oct 17, 2025

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Welcome to this week’s edition of the DevOps Bulletin!

Wiz revealed how attackers are turning databases into ransomware targets using nothing but SQL, while an engineer on Hacker News shared how an AWS bot sent 2 billion requests a month with no clear way to stop it. Jeff Geerling regrets building a $3,000 Raspberry Pi AI cluster, and Shopify engineers e…

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