Digest #195: Tech in 2026, SRE Agent with Claude and Kubernetes, CI/CD for Monorepo and Free DevOps Certificates

2026 tech predictions & autonomous monitoring with Claude and Kubernetes, CI/CD for monorepos, AWS cost allocation, Go memory internals, and centralized alerting at scale.

Welcome to this week’s edition of the DevOps Bulletin and happy New Year 2026 🎉

This week: AWS’s CTO share his predictions for 2026 and beyond, why developers are gaming GitHub profiles (and why stars don’t mean what they used to), and an honest reflection on year eight as a founder CTO. We also look at the production bug that made one engineer finally …