#8 Uptime Sync: GitHub’s Feb 9 Incident, Gemini 3 Deep Think & RDMA

Welcome to this week’s Uptime Sync. This issue opens with GitHub’s Feb 9 incident and what it means for anyone running customer-facing platforms with tight SLOs, followed by Google’s Gemini 3 Deep Think update and why it matters for engineering and research workflows. We then get practical about security: Evil Martians’ breakdown of the most common risks when “vibe coding” your app, plus a builder’s perspective on why they created NoSQLSync after getting tired of fighting their own databases. On the infrastructure side, there’s a clean explainer on RDMA—what it is, why it exists, and where it actually fits (especially when network latency becomes your bottleneck). Finally, we end with a grounded take on AI job loss that’s more useful than the usual doom-or-hype narratives.

On the tutorial front, you’ll demystify the protobuf wire format so you can debug payloads without guessing, query databases using plain English (and understand what’s really happening underneath), and study how Meta builds Prometheus for backend aggregation to support gigawatt-scale AI clusters. You’ll also learn kubert’s approach to isolated Kubernetes contexts (a small workflow change that prevents big mistakes), plus two Terraform reality checks: the biggest pitfalls (with fixes) and a deep dive into Terraform memory errors so you can stop treating OOMs like random events.

To wrap it up, this week’s projects bring you a massive collection of DevOps bash scripts you’ll actually reuse, a high-performance open-source CI/CD engine written in Go, a modern Kubernetes visibility tool that makes cluster debugging less painful, and Cachet—an open-source self-hosted status page system that’s still one of the fastest ways to earn trust during incidents.

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