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Welcome to this week's Uptime Sync. We start with a company that blocks every new npm and PyPI release for seven days, and why that wait would have caught this year's big supply-chain attacks. Then Google Cloud walks through a GKE outage caused by three separate bugs in three layers, fixed in the end by a Linux kernel patch. We also look at how OpenAI scaled storage for over 1 billion ChatGPT users, how Confluent cut controller restarts from 6 hours to 1 minute, what Let's Encrypt's move to 64-day certificates means for your renewal setup, how PlanetScale designs planned switchovers, and why one team replaced 50+ PHP workers with a single Go process.
On the tutorial front: find out what happens when your EKS version reaches end of support, and how to handle secrets in Helm without leaking them. We also cover building a multi-tenant EKS platform for 12 teams, tracing Kueue admission with Headlamp, and a deep dive into auto scaling response times on Amazon ECS.
This week's projects include Tyk, an open source API and AI gateway with REST, GraphQL, gRPC and MCP support, and Restic for fast, secure backups. Uptime Kuma gives you simple self-hosted monitoring, Serie draws git commit graphs right in your terminal, and Nasiko is an open runtime for agents, coding harnesses and tools.
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Tutorials of the Week
Projects of the Week
Tyk - Open Source API and AI Gateway supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP, gRPC and MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
Uptime Kuma is an easy-to-use self-hosted monitoring tool.
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