Digest #202: Terraform Claude Skills, FinOps FOCUS 1.2, AI Fatigue for Cloud Engineers, and MCP for Web Data Extraction
Gaps in FOCUS 1.2 billing data, the truth about AI fatigue for cloud engineers, and the three AI skills that matter most. Plus, latest DevOps, FinOps, cloud security, Postgres, Docker, and projects.
Welcome to this week’s edition of the DevOps Bulletin.
In this week’s news, we unpack the hidden friction inside FOCUS 1.2 and what happens when a clean FinOps specification collides with messy real billing data. We also cover why Docker sandboxes deserve more attention, how Netflix scales LLM post-training, a Firebase misconfiguration that exposed 300 million messages, and a reflective farewell to Rust.
This week’s tutorials include an interactive tour of Go 1.26, an OpenClaw security engineer’s cheat sheet, the one Claude skill every DevOps engineer should master, how to detect read efficiency issues in Postgres queries, Docker log rotation basics, and a living PostgreSQL sample database you can run locally. We also explore a FinOps guide to updated spend-based CUDs, deploying a production-ready FastAPI app with Terraform on AWS, and encrypting files with passkeys and age.
Our video of the week breaks down AI fatigue and why cloud engineers feel overwhelmed by nonstop AI hype. We also spotlight Bright Data MCP, a single entry point for searching, crawling, and extracting real-time web data without dealing with CAPTCHA, JavaScript rendering, or geo restrictions.
The open source picks include a macOS helper that plays Warcraft style sounds when Claude Code finishes tasks, a continuously updated IPv4 blocklist for firewall and WAF protection, a production ready Go based LLM vulnerability scanner that tests models against more than 210 adversarial attacks, a lightweight command runner for project specific tasks, a SQL driven dashboard platform powered by DuckDB, and a Claude Code plugin marketplace focused on security auditing and malware analysis skills.
All this and more in this week’s DevOps Bulletin, don’t miss out!
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Newsworthy stories
Tutorials of the week
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Videos of the week
Projects of the week
A macOS helper that plays Warcraft-style sound notifications when Claude Code finishes or needs input, so you never miss terminal events
A continuously updated, community-maintained IPv4 blocklist of malicious IPs for firewall and WAF protection.
A production-ready Go-based LLM vulnerability scanner that tests models against +210 adversarial attacks, including prompt injection and jailbreaks
Just is a handy way to save and run project-specific commands.
A SQL-driven dashboard platform powered by DuckDB that lets you build and share analytics with pure SQL queries
A Claude Code plugin marketplace providing security-focused skills for auditing, testing, malware analysis, and secure development workflows
Meme of the week
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