Welcome to this week's Uptime Sync. This issue covers Graham Gilbert's "Terraform is dead" manifesto and the platform engineering shift it's accelerating, Microsoft's exec warning that AI coding agents are destroying junior developer careers, and Arman BD's 54-day SSH honeypot that attracted 269,000 attacks from 7,556 IPs. We also examine Wawandco's "Knowledge vs Taste" thesis on why AI velocity without judgment is a liability, Ayende Rahien's "Million AI Monkeys" hypothesis tested against real projects, Sean Goedecke's raw "On Screwing Up" reflection, and The Daily WTF's Python polling script disaster pretending to fix slow SQL.
On the tutorial front: MetalBear's engineering team's real AI usage patterns, Istio's container registry migration pain points, Kevin Murphy's pull request reading workflow, DigitalOcean's documentation agent with Gradient AI, and Monday(dot)com's chaos engineering practices that survived production.
This week's projects bring you OneDev for self-hosted Git with built-in CI/CD and Kanban, Terragrunt for Go-based Terraform orchestration solving DRY and remote state issues, KitOps for CNCF packaging AI/ML into OCI artifacts, OneUptime for self-hosted observability with incident management and on-call, Opsy CLI for Go-based SRE automation with kubectl/helm/git integration, and lakeFS for git-style data lake versioning.
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Tutorials of the Week
Projects of the Week
A self-hosted Git server that bundles CI/CD pipelines, Kanban boards, and package management into a single platform.
Go-based orchestration layer for Terraform/OpenTofu that solves DRY violations, remote state management, and multi-account infrastructure
A CNCF open-source DevOps tool that packages AI/ML models, datasets, code, and configuration into OCI artifacts.
A self-hosted, open-source monitoring and observability platform offering monitoring, incident management, on-call scheduling
Opsy is a CLI-based AI agent written in Go that acts as an SRE colleague, integrating with kubectl, helm, and git to automate operational tasks.
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