Welcome to this week’s Uptime Sync. This issue kicks off with Cloudflare’s outage and what it teaches about the danger of global config pushes, how Cloudflare actually manages its edge with infrastructure as code, why SQLite is one of the most brutally tested databases on the planet, how Grab modernised its model-serving stack with NVIDIA Triton, and how to get started with Docker’s new hardened images for safer defaults in production.
On the hands-on side, you’ll dive into Docker internals by building a container runtime in Python, learn how to ship a SaaS app on Railway, back up servers properly with Restic and a clean GUI, plug GitHub OAuth into a Flask app, master testing patterns with Prisma, and refresh the 10 Kubernetes basics you really need before calling any cluster “production ready.”
To round things out, this week’s projects give you a prebuilt detection lab with logging and security tooling, a slick self-hosted monitoring dashboard, Percona’s single pane of glass for database performance, a powerful container and host secret scanner, and a CLI that injects secrets from your team vault at runtime so local dev feels like production without the chaos.
Newsworthy Stories
Tutorials of the week
Projects of the week
Automate the creation of a lab environment complete with security tooling and logging best practices
This is a fancy self-hosted monitoring tool designed to keep an eye on your services.
A single pane of glass to easily view and monitor the performance of your MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB databases.
A standalone tool that retrieves and searches container and host filesystems, matching the contents against a database of approximately 140 secret types.
A CLI tool that simplifies secret management for local development by injecting secrets from your team's vault at runtime.
Until next time,
Yoshik K