Ship It Weekly - DevOps, SRE, Platform and Cloud Engineering News
Ship It Weekly is a short, practical recap of what actually matters in DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering. Host Brian Teller walks through the latest outages, releases, tools, and incident writeups, translating them into actionable insights for working professionals. Episodes are 15–30 minutes long, covering cloud provider incidents, Kubernetes trends, Terraform changes, and real postmortems. The show is aimed at people already working in the space who want to stay sharp without scrolling through status pages and blogs all week.
Episodes
GitHub Outage, PleaseFix Agentic Browser Vulnerability, AWS Certificate Manager Drops Email Validation, Cloudflare TypeScript CI Workflows, AI Observability Consolidation, and the Hidden Cost of “Simple” Platform Changes
This week on Ship It Weekly: GitHub suffers another widespread outage affecting the web interface, APIs, Actions, authentication, Copilot, and other critical developer workflows. Zenity Labs demonstrates PleaseFix attacks against agentic browsers, where malicious content can influence agents with access to authenticated sessions and privileged tools. AWS Certificate Manager is moving away from ema
Ship It Conversations: Ned Bellavance of Ned in the Cloud on DevOps Beyond the Buzzwords, Terraform, AI, the Future of Infrastructure as Code, and Why Fundamentals Still Matter
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It Conversations episode, I talk with Ned Bellavance of Ned in the Cloud about DevOps beyond the buzzwords, platform engineering, infrastructure as code, AI, and why fundamentals still matter even as the tools change.Ned is the founder of Ned in the Cloud and host of the Day 2 DevOps podcast,
Railway US East Outage, Stripe’s Graph-Based Database Recovery, Kata Containers Host Escape, DynamoDB Vector Search, AWS Network Firewall Proxy, Gateway API 1.6, and containerd 2.4
This week on Ship It Weekly: Railway explains how an upstream network problem turned into a much larger US East outage, including storage traffic falling back onto the management network and stale connections continuing to cause problems after routing recovered. Stripe shares how graph search and state machines helped cut database pager volume by about 30 percent. Kata Containers patches a critica
AI Agents Target GitHub, Kubernetes 1.37 Deprecations, AWS Transit Gateway Policy Routing, IAM Identity Center Multi-Region, Cloudflare Meerkat, AMOS Mac Malware, and the Risk of Half-Migrated Production Systems
This week on Ship It Weekly: AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI took unsanctioned actions on the real internet during UK government cyber testing, including an attempt to push malicious code into a real GitHub project. Kubernetes 1.37 starts retiring IPVS mode, pushes cgroup v1 closer to removal, and brings an SELinux volume change worth testing before upgrades. AWS Transit Gateway gets policy-ba
Telstra’s Time Sync Outage, DoorDash’s 1.5M RPS Cache, Stateless MCP, GitHub and PyPI Supply Chain Delays, and Why the Quietest Infrastructure Often Has the Biggest Blast Radius
This week on Ship It Weekly: Telstra’s mobile network jumped back to 2006 after a timing device restarted with the wrong date, disrupting calls, data sessions, and hundreds of emergency calls.DoorDash explains how Entity Cache, built with Envoy and Valkey, handles more than 1.5 million requests per second and uses stale-data policies, invalidation, and fallback behavior as a reliability layer.The
Ship It Conversations: Jay Lark of Hookbridge on Webhook Reliability, Retries, Idempotency, Replay, HMAC Security, Local Testing, and Operating Webhooks in Production
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It Conversations episode, I talk with Jay Lark of Hookbridge about webhook reliability, retries, idempotency, replay, security, local development, and what happens when a simple HTTP POST becomes production infrastructure.Jay is a Principal DevOps Engineer and the founder of Hookbridge, a serv
AWS CloudFormation Express Mode, Spark 4.2 Vector Search, AI Speeds Coding but Not Delivery, Platform Governance Developers Won’t Hate, and Why Could Is Not the Same as Should
This week on Ship It Weekly: AWS CloudFormation Express mode promises faster infrastructure feedback by reporting deployments complete before extended resource stabilization finishes. Apache Spark 4.2 adds native vector operations and nearest-neighbor joins, giving some teams a way to keep AI data workloads closer to the platforms they already run.GitLab’s latest research says AI is helping develo
Ship It Conversations: Mat Ryer of Grafana Labs on AI Observability, Agents, Evals, and Operating AI in Production
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It Conversations episode, I talk with Mat Ryer of Grafana Labs about AI observability, production agents, evals, telemetry cost, guardrails, and what changes once AI moves beyond demos and into systems teams actually depend on.Mat is Senior Director of AI at Grafana Labs, where he focuses on h
GitHub API Enumeration, Grok Build CLI Data Exposure, AWS Security Hub Network Scanning, AI-Powered Patch Pressure, and Why Visibility Is Not Ownership
This week on Ship It Weekly: Datadog tracked coordinated GitHub API enumeration, xAI’s Grok Build CLI reportedly uploaded repo data without redaction, AWS Security Hub added Network Scanning and exposure impact analysis, and Microsoft says AI-powered vulnerability discovery is changing patch pressure.The theme: visibility is not ownership. A GitHub API map does not revoke a token. An exposure find
EKS Rollbacks, GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attacks, AI Agentjacking, CloudWatch Log Alarms, and Why Safety Nets Don’t Replace Ownership
This week on Ship It Weekly: Amazon EKS added Kubernetes version rollbacks, Novee Security published Cordyceps research on GitHub Actions supply chain risk, Tenet Security showed how fake telemetry can hijack AI coding agents, and Amazon CloudWatch added alarms directly from log queries.The theme: safety nets are getting better, but the blast radius is getting wider. Rollback buttons, log alarms,
Ship It Conversations: Evan Phoenix of Miren on Deployment Pain, Terraform, Waypoint, and Better Defaults for Small Teams
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Evan Phoenix of Miren about why deployment is still painful, what teams keep getting wrong when they try to simplify it, and why small teams may need better defaults more than more platform knobs.Evan is the CEO of Miren. He previously worked on Terraform
Amazon Q CVEs, Hijacked npm and Go Packages, AWS WAF HTTP/2 Issues, Lambda MicroVMs, and Why Execution Is the Boundary Now
This week on Ship It Weekly: Amazon Q Developer and the AWS language servers had a pair of trust-boundary CVEs, JFrog found hijacked npm and Go packages using hidden VS Code tasks to run malware when a workspace opens, AWS WAF had HTTP/2 request-body inspection issues, and AWS introduced Lambda MicroVMs for running user-generated and AI-generated code in isolated sandboxes.The bigger theme: execut
Ship It Conversations: Kat Traxler of Vectra AI on AI Security, the Zero-Day Clock, IAM, and Cloud Risk
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Kat Traxler of Vectra AI about AI security, the zero-day clock, IAM, cloud risk, AI-assisted bug hunting, and why the scariest future security problems may still start with the boring fundamentals teams already struggle with today.Kat is a Principal Secur
containerd CRI Vulnerabilities, Datadog PostgreSQL HA on Kubernetes, AWS DevOps Agent with Datadog MCP Server, EKS Control Plane Egress, and Why Users Feel the Wait
This week on Ship It Weekly: containerd disclosed a batch of CRI plugin vulnerabilities, Datadog tested PostgreSQL high availability on Kubernetes and found that failover is not useful if it cannot happen safely, AWS DevOps Agent and Datadog MCP Server moved AI incident response closer to real production workflows, and Amazon EKS added customer-routed control-plane egress.The bigger theme: the con
Ship It Conversations: Guardsquare’s Joel DeStefano on Mobile App Security, Runtime Protection, App Hardening, and Why Scanning Isn’t Enough
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Joel DeStefano from Guardsquare about mobile app security, why it is different from backend and cloud security, and why scanning alone is not enough once an app is shipped into the real world.We talk about the shift in trust model that happens with mobile
PeopleSoft Zero-Day Exploited, npm v12 Install Script Changes, GitHub Agentic Tokens, Anthropic Model Risk, and Default Trust Breaking
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about default trust getting punished. Brian covers Oracle’s emergency PeopleSoft advisory for CVE-2026-35273, npm v12 changing install-script defaults, GitHub Agentic Workflows moving away from long-lived personal access tokens, and Anthropic disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a U.S. export-control directive. The common thread: legacy ERP systems, package instal
Ship It Conversations: Meta’s Francois Richard on AI Incident Response, SLOs, and Reliability at Scale
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Francois Richard, Engineering Director at Meta, about reliability at scale, how AI is changing production risk, what teams actually learn from incidents, and why recovery practice matters just as much as prevention.We talk about the proactive and reactive
Coinbase Outage, Meta AI Account Recovery, AWS AgentCore Code Injection, Apigee Tenant Isolation, and the Glue That Breaks Production
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about the hidden glue holding production together.Brian covers Coinbase’s May 7 outage postmortem, where an AWS us-east-1 cooling failure exposed the difference between being “multi-AZ” on paper and actually being able to recover when stateful, low-latency systems are tied to a failed zone.Then he looks at Meta’s AI-assisted Instagram support issue and why account
Kiro CLI Approval Bypass, Amazon Braket Pickle Risk, AWS Org Logging, KEDA Upgrades, and Automation’s Hidden Boundaries
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about automation’s hidden boundaries. Brian covers Kiro CLI CVE-2026-9255, where piped stdin could act like user approval, Amazon Braket SDK CVE-2026-9291 and the very normal Python pickle risk hiding inside quantum job results, AWS Organizations finally emitting CloudTrail events when accounts join or leave an org, and KEDA updates that remind us autoscaling upgr
GitHub Supply Chain Attacks, Railway’s GCP Outage, Discord’s Voice Failure, AWS Retry Changes, and Trusted Tool Risk
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about trusted tools becoming production dependencies. Brian covers a rough GitHub supply chain week, including the compromised Nx Console VS Code extension tied to exposed GitHub internal repositories and the Megalodon campaign abusing GitHub Actions workflows across thousands of public repos.The bigger thread this week is that the tools around production are incr
Ship It Conversations: Jake Warner on Cycle.io, Bare Metal’s Comeback, and Why Private Cloud Is Getting Interesting Again
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Jake Warner, founder and CEO of Cycle.io, about private cloud, bare metal, Kubernetes fatigue, and why some teams are rethinking how much infrastructure complexity they actually want to carry.We talk about why bare metal and private cloud are getting inte
CISA’s GitHub Leak, AI Root Cause Analysis, Copilot Agents, Claude Code in CI/CD, and Kubernetes Seccomp Risk
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about secrets, agents, risky defaults, and follow-up work that never gets done. Brian covers the CISA contractor GitHub leak involving AWS keys, internal docs, Terraform, Kubernetes, Argo CD, and CI/CD context, plus AWS DevOps Agent doing automated RCA across Datadog, Elasticsearch, CloudTrail, and EKS.Brian also covers MS Copilot Studio computer-using agents, Cla
AI Agents Get API Access and Identity: GitHub Copilot Cloud Agents, MCP Auth, Ansible Automation, OpenAI Daybreak, and the New Production Risk
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about AI agents moving from helpful coding assistants into real operational actors. Brian covers GitHub making Copilot cloud agent tasks available through a REST API, Auth0 bringing authentication and authorization to MCP servers, Red Hat positioning Ansible as a trusted execution layer for agentic IT operations, and OpenAI Daybreak pushing AI deeper into security
Cursor Deletes PocketOS Prod DB, .de DNSSEC Outage, Bluesky Postmortem, Argo CD, and Copy Fail
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about modern reliability getting squeezed from both directions. Old-school failures still hit hard, like broken DNSSEC, kernel privilege escalation bugs, and GitOps behavior changes. But newer automation layers add a second kind of risk, where AI agents, machine identity, and cloud control planes can do real damage fast when authority is too broad. Brian covers th
Ship It Conversations: Gareth Kersey on IaCConf 2026, AI, and Corey Quinn’s Terraform Keynote
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.This episode is not sponsored. I wanted to cover IaCConf because the theme lines up closely with what Ship It Weekly focuses on: infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, and how teams are adapting to AI-driven change.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Gareth Kersey about IaCConf
GitHub RCE, AI Agent Prompt Injection, and the New Reality: Your Developer Toolchain Is Production Now
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about the developer toolchain becoming part of production. Brian covers GitHub’s critical git push RCE, AI-assisted reverse engineering, prompt injection against AI agents in GitHub workflows, Elementary’s malicious CLI release, GitHub’s merge queue regression, Cal.com going closed source, and Copilot moving toward usage-based billing. Plus: MinIO’s repo archive,
Kubernetes 1.36, Gateway API v1.5, AWS Copilot End of Support, and Cloudflare Non-Human Identities
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about platforms getting sharper about defaults, ownership, and the old paths they are no longer willing to quietly carry forever. Brian covers Kubernetes 1.36 and why it feels more like a cleanup-and-maturity release than a flashy feature dump, Gateway API v1.5 moving more networking behavior into the stable path, AWS Copilot CLI reaching end of support and what t
Ship It Conversations: Stephane Moser on Pipedrive’s Jenkins-to-GitHub Actions Migration, Argo CD, and CI/CD at Scale
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Stephane Moser about Pipedrive’s move from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, building self-hosted runners on Kubernetes, shifting deployments toward GitOps with Argo CD, and what it actually takes to roll out a big CI/CD change across a large engineering org.We
AWS Interconnect GA, Cloudflare Mesh, GitLab 19, EKS Auto Mode, and OpenTelemetry Config
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about networking, ingress, and private access moving further up into the platform layer. Brian covers AWS Interconnect going generally available, Cloudflare Mesh, GitLab 19.0 breaking changes around Gateway API and bundled services, EKS Auto Mode networking, and OpenTelemetry declarative config reaching stability. He also hits containerd security patches, GitHub’s
Special: Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing: AI Exploit Discovery, Zero-Day Risk, Business Fallout, and What It Means for DevOps, Cloud, and Platform Security
In this Ship It Weekly special, Brian breaks down Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing, and why this story matters beyond normal AI launch hype.Anthropic is treating Mythos like a real security inflection point, not just a better coding model. Project Glasswing is their coordinated effort to get early access into the hands of defenders, critical software maintainers, and major infrastructur
Amazon S3 Files, Malicious npm Plugins, Trivy Fallout, and Kubernetes’ Gateway Shift
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about the interface layer becoming the story. Brian covers Amazon S3 Files and why it feels more like a managed filesystem layer in front of S3 than “S3 is EFS now,” including how it relates to the old s3fs and FUSE-style approach. He also digs into 36 malicious npm packages posing as Strapi plugins, the uglier follow-on to the Trivy incident he discussed previous
Ship It Conversations: David Tuite on Backstage, Internal Developer Portals, and the Shift to AI Agents
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with David Chute, founder and CEO of Roadie, about internal developer portals, Backstage, automation, and how IDPs may evolve as AI agents become more common in engineering workflows.We talk about the difference between a platform and a portal, the three commo
GitHub Actions Hardening, Airbnb Config Rollouts, Cloudflare Rust Restarts, ECS Managed Daemons, and Terraform Access Controls
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about the quiet platform work that keeps things safe before they break. Brian covers GitHub Actions hardening in Kubernetes-related repos, Airbnb’s safer config rollouts, Cloudflare’s zero-downtime Rust restarts, Amazon ECS Managed Daemons, and HCP Terraform access controls with IP allow lists and temporary AWS permission delegation.LinksGitHub Actions security ro
Hackerbot-Claw Grows, Xygeni Tag Poisoning, GitHub Search HA, Windows SID Failures, and AI Skills Supply Chain
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about the places where convenience quietly turns into trust.Brian revisits the Trivy story by zooming out to the bigger hackerbot-claw GitHub Actions campaign, then gets into the Xygeni tag-poisoning compromise, GitHub’s search high availability rebuild for GitHub Enterprise Server, Windows Server 2025 surfacing duplicate SID problems in cloned images, and the age
Ship It Conversations: Ang Chen on Project Vera, AI Cloud Emulation, and Safer Infrastructure Testing
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Ang Chen from the University of Michigan about Project Vera, a cloud emulator built to help teams test infrastructure changes more safely before they touch real cloud.We talk about why testing against real cloud APIs is slow, expensive, and risky, how Ver
McKinsey AI Flaw, Kafka Goes Diskless, Google Buys Wiz, AWS Copilot Ends, and AI Gateway on Kubernetes
This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at what happens when new interfaces create old responsibilities.McKinsey patched a vulnerability in its internal AI tool Lilli, Kafka contributors are pushing a diskless-topics model that rethinks durability and replication in cloud environments, and Google officially closed Wiz acquisition in one of the biggest cloud-security moves. Plus: AWS is sunsetting
Meta Buys Moltbook, Block AI Layoffs Get Messier, Atlassian Cuts Jobs, and GitHub Explains the Outages
This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian covers five “AI meets reality” stories that every DevOps, SRE, security, and platform team can learn from.Block’s AI layoff story is getting messier as follow-up reporting pushes back on the original framing, Meta bought Moltbook and brought more attention to the trust and security problems already showing up around AI-agent platforms, and Atlassian cut about 10%
Ship It Conversations: Yvonne Young on Linux Foundations, Mentorship, and Getting Job Ready in Cloud
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).In this Ship It: Conversations episode I talk with Yvonne Young, a cloud and Linux mentor active in the CloudWhistler community. We talk about the real path into cloud and DevOps, why Linux still matters as a foundation, what “job ready” actually means, and why focus, consistency, and business thinking ma
AWS Bahrain/UAE Data Center Issues Amid Iran Strikes, ArgoCD vs Flux GitOps Failures, GitHub Actions Hackerbot-Claw Attacks (Trivy), RoguePilot Codespaces Prompt Injection, Block “AI Remake” Layoffs, Claude Code Security
This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at how the boundary of ops keeps expanding.We cover AWS flagging issues in Bahrain/UAE amid Iran strikes, ArgoCD vs Flux and why ArgoCD can get stuck in failed sync states, GitHub Actions being exploited at scale (plus Trivy’s incident), RoguePilot prompt injection meeting real credentials in Codespaces, Block’s “AI remake” layoffs, and Anthropic’s Claude C
Cloudflare BYOIP BGP Withdrawals, Clerk’s Postgres Query-Plan Flip Outage, and AWS Kiro Permissions Lessons (Grafana Privesc + runc CVEs)
This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at how the boundary of ops keeps expanding.We cover AWS flagging issues in Bahrain/UAE amid Iran strikes, ArgoCD vs Flux and why ArgoCD can get stuck in failed sync states, GitHub Actions being exploited at scale (plus Trivy’s incident), RoguePilot prompt injection meeting real credentials in Codespaces, Block’s “AI remake” layoffs, and Anthropic’s Claude C
Ship It Conversations: Mike Lady on Day Two Readiness + Guardrails in the AI Era
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).In this Ship It: Conversations episode I talk with Mike Lady (Senior DevOps Engineer, distributed systems) from Enterprise Vibe Code on YouTube. We talk day two readiness, guardrails/quality gates, and why shipping safely matters even more now that AI can generate code fast.HighlightsDay 0 vs Day 1 vs Day
GitHub Agentic Workflows, Gentoo Leaves GitHub, Argo CD 3.3 Upgrade Gotcha, AWS Config Scope Creep
This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian hits five stories where the “defaults” are shifting under ops teams.GitHub is bringing Agentic Workflows into Actions, Gentoo is migrating off GitHub to Codeberg, Argo CD upgrades are forcing Server-Side Apply in some paths, AWS Config quietly expanded coverage again, and EC2 nested virtualization is now possible on virtual instances.LinksYouTube episodes https:/
Special: OpenClaw Security Timeline and Fallout: CVE-2026-25253 One-Click Token Leak, Malicious ClawHub Skills, Exposed Agent Control Panels, and Why Local AI Agents Are a New DevOps/SRE Control Plane (OpenAI Hires Founder)
In this Ship It Weekly special, Brian breaks down the OpenClaw situation and why it’s bigger than “another CVE.”OpenClaw is a preview of what platform teams are about to deal with: autonomous agents running locally, wired into real tools, real APIs, and real credentials. When the trust model breaks, it’s not just data exposure. It’s an operator compromise.We walk through the recent timeline: mass
When guardrails break prod: GitHub “Too Many Requests” from legacy defenses, Kubernetes nodes/proxy GET RCE, HCP Vault resilience in an AWS regional outage, and PCI DSS scope creep
This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian hits four stories where the guardrails become the incident.GitHub had “Too Many Requests” caused by legacy abuse protections that outlived their moment. Takeaway: controls need owners, visibility, and a retirement plan.Kubernetes has a nasty edge case where nodes/proxy GET can turn into command execution via WebSocket behavior. If you’ve ever handed out “telemetr
Azure VM Control Plane Outage, GitHub Agent HQ (Claude + Codex), Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini CLI, MCP
This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian hits four “control plane + trust boundary” stories where the glue layer becomes the incident.Azure had a platform incident that impacted VM management operations across multiple regions. Your app can be up, but ops is degraded.GitHub is pushing Agent HQ (Claude + Codex in the repo/CI flow), and Actions added a case() function so workflow logic is less brittle.MCP
CodeBreach in AWS CodeBuild, Bazel TLS Certificate Expiry Breaks Builds, Helm Charts Reliability Audit, and New n8n Sandbox Escape RCE
This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at four “glue failures” that can turn into real outages and real security risk.We start with CodeBreach: AWS disclosed a CodeBuild webhook filter misconfig in a small set of AWS-managed repos. The takeaway is simple: CI trigger logic is part of your security boundary now.Next is the Bazel TLS cert expiry incident. Cert failures are a binary cliff, and “auto
Ship It Conversations: AI Automation for SMBs: What to Automate (And What Not To) (with Austin Reed)
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).In this Ship It: Conversations episode I talk with Austin Reed from horizon.dev about AI and automation for small and mid-sized businesses, and what actually works once you leave the demo world.We get into the most common automation wins he sees (sales and customer service), why a lot of projects fail due
curl Shuts Down Bug Bounties Due to AI Slop, AWS RDS Blue/Green Cuts Switchover Downtime to ~5 Seconds, and Amazon ECR Adds Cross-Repository Layer Sharing
This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at three different versions of the same problem: systems are getting faster, but human attention is still the bottleneck.We start with curl shutting down their bug bounty program after getting flooded with low-quality “AI slop” reports. It’s not a “security vs maintainers” story, it’s an incentives and signal-to-noise story. When the cost to generate report
n8n Auth RCE (CVE-2026-21877), GitHub Artifact Permissions, and AWS DevOps Agent Lessons
This week on Ship It Weekly, the theme is simple: the automation layer has become a control plane, and that changes how you should think about risk.We start with n8n’s latest critical vulnerability, CVE-2026-21877. This one is different from the unauth “Ni8mare” issue we covered in Episode 12. It’s authenticated RCE, which means the real question isn’t only “is it internet exposed,” it’s who can l
Ship It Conversations: Human-in-the-Loop Fixer Bots and AI Guardrails in CI/CD (with Gracious James)
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).In this Ship It: Conversations episode I talk with Gracious James Eluvathingal about TARS, his “human-in-the-loop” fixer bot wired into CI/CD.We get into why he built it in the first place, how he stitches together n8n, GitHub, SSH, and guardrailed commands, and what it actually looks like when an AI agen
n8n Critical CVE (CVE-2026-21858), AWS GPU Capacity Blocks Price Hike, Netflix Temporal
This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian’s theme is basically: the “automation layer” is not a side tool anymore. It’s part of your perimeter, part of your reliability story, and sometimes part of your budget problem too.We start with the n8n security issue. A lot of teams use n8n as glue for ops workflows, which means it tends to collect credentials and touch real systems. When something like this drop
Ship It Conversations: Backstage vs Internal IDPs, and Why DevEx Muscle Matters (with Danny Teller)
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).I sat down with Danny Teller, a DevOps Architect and Tech Lead Manager at Tipalti, to talk about internal developer platforms and the reality behind “just set up a developer portal.” We get into Backstage versus internal IDPs, why adoption is the real battle, and why platform/DevEx maturity matters more t
Fail Small, IaC Control Planes, and Automated RCA
This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian kicks off the new year with one theme: automation is getting faster, and that makes blast radius and oversight matter more than ever.We start with Cloudflare’s “fail small” mindset. The core idea is simple: big outages usually come from correlated failure, not one box dying. If a bad change lands everywhere at once, you’re toast. “Fail small” is about forcing pro
Ship It Conversations: From Full-Stack to Cloud/DevOps, One Project at a Time (with Eric Paatey)
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).I sat down with Eric Paatey, a Cloud & DevOps Engineer who’s been transitioning from full-stack web development into cloud/devops, and building real skills through hands-on projects instead of just collecting tools and buzzwords.We talk about what that transition actually feels like, what’s helped mos
Cloudflare’s Workers Scheduler, AWS DBs on Vercel, and JIT Admin Access
This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at real platform engineering in the wild.We start with Cloudflare’s write-up on building an internal maintenance scheduler on Workers. It’s not marketing fluff. It’s “we hit memory limits, changed the model, and stopped pulling giant datasets into the runtime.”Next up: AWS databases are now available inside the Vercel Marketplace. This is a quiet shift with
Ship It Conversations: The WHY Behind DevOps, Upskilling, and Agentic AI (with Maz Islam)
This is a Ship It Weekly conversation episode. The weekly news recaps are still weekly. These interviews drop in between when I find someone worth talking to and the convo feels useful.In this episode I’m joined by Mazharul “Maz” Islam (DevOps with Maz). Maz is a UK-based DevOps Engineer who shares practical, real-world DevOps content on YouTube and LinkedIn. We talk about the stuff that actually
GitHub Runner Pricing Pause, Terraform Cloud Limits, and AI in CI
This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at how the “platform tax” is showing up everywhere: pricing model shifts, CI dependencies, and new security boundaries thanks to AI agents.We start with GitHub Actions. GitHub announced a new “cloud platform” charge for self-hosted runners in private/internal repos… then hit pause after backlash. Hosted runner price reductions for 2026 are still planned. We
IBM Buys Confluent, React2Shell, and Netflix on Aurora
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian powers through a cold and digs into a very “infra grown-up” week in DevOps.First up, IBM is buying Confluent for $11B. We talk about what that means if you’re on Confluent Cloud today, still running your own Kafka, or trying to choose between Confluent, MSK, and DIY. It’s part of a bigger pattern after IBM’s HashiCorp deal, and it has real implications for
AWS re:Invent for Platform Teams, GKE at 130k Nodes, and Killing Staging
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at re:Invent through a platform/SRE lens and pulls out the updates that actually change how you design and run systems.We talk about regional NAT Gateways and Route 53 Global Resolver on the networking side, ECS Express Mode and EKS Capabilities as new paved roads for app teams, S3 Vectors GA and 50 TB S3 objects for AI and data lakes, Aurora PostgreS
Kubernetes Config Reality Check, EKS Control Planes, and GitHub Guardrails
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian digs into what’s new for people actually running infra: Kubernetes config, EKS control planes and networking, and GitHub’s latest CI/CD and Copilot updates.We start with Kubernetes’ new configuration good practices post and how to turn it into a checklist to clean up Helm/Kustomize and kill off “hotfix from my laptop” manifests.Then we hit AWS: EKS Provisio
Kubernetes Shake-ups, Platform Reality, and AI-Native SRE
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian digs into 3 big themes for anyone running Kubernetes or building internal platforms.First, Kubernetes is officially retiring Ingress NGINX and moving it into best-effort maintenance until March 2026. We talk about what that actually means if you’re still using it and how to think about choosing and rolling out a replacement ingress.Second, we look at how CN
Special: When the Cloud Has a Bad Day: Cloudflare, AWS us-east-1 & GitHub Outages
In this special kickoff episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian walks through three major outages from the last few weeks and what they actually mean for DevOps, SRE, and platform teams.Instead of just reading status pages, we look at how each incident exposes assumptions in our own architectures and runbooks:Topics in this episode:• Cloudflare’s global outage and what happens when your CDN/WAF becomes a
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