Welcome to this week's Uptime Sync. This issue opens with Netflix's deep dive into building a reliable cloud live streaming pipeline at global scale, Matrix's detailed postmortem analyzing their September 2 outage and what broke, a practical exploration of how SRE thinking can transform your DevOps workflows, a real-world lesson in incident management from a personal project that became a public outage, and why your job is to deliver code you've actually proven works not just code that compiles.
On the tutorial front, you'll build AI agents for DevOps automation from CI/CD to autonomous deployments, pick up a scrapbag of battle-tested Terraform tips that actually save time, optimize SQL queries with 6 practical techniques that improve performance, walk through building your first AI product with a hands-on guide, configure Linux networking using systemd-networkd, and stop managing HTTPS certificates manually by switching to Caddy's automatic approach.
To wrap things up, this week's projects bring you LocalStack for emulating cloud services locally in CI environments, Pipelight as a tiny self-hosted CI/CD pipeline CLI, Hoppscotch as the open-source API development alternative to Postman, DevToys for bundling dozens of quick dev utilities without sketchy websites, and Task: a fast, modern build tool inspired by Make but designed for current workflows.
Newsworthy Reads
Tutorials of the week
Projects of the week
A cloud service emulator that runs in a single container on your laptop or in your CI environment.
Tiny CLI for self-hosted CI/CD pipelines
Open-Source API Development Ecosystem, alternative to Postman.
A tool that helps with daily development tasks by offering a bundle of tiny tools designed to do quick, specific tiny tasks. No need to use many untrustworthy websites to simply decode a text or compress an image.
A fast, cross-platform build tool inspired by Make, designed for modern workflows.
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