Welcome to this week's Uptime Sync. This issue opens with Anthropic's Claude Code security overview and what it means for teams using AI agents in engineering workflows, followed by a deep look at how microservice architectures have quietly reshaped which database technologies actually get adopted and why. We then shift to career and craft: a practical breakdown of the secret to getting promoted (the kind that's actually actionable, not just "do more good work"), and 14 hard-won lessons from 14 years at Google that are worth reading slowly. On the reliability side, there's a detailed look at how Atlassian catches and mitigates performance regressions at scale in Jira Cloud - a rare honest writeup on what production-grade performance monitoring actually looks like in a large SaaS product.
On the tutorial front, you'll get a ground-level GitOps walkthrough covering the best practices most people learn the hard way, a clean explainer on OAuth that skips the hand-waving and covers what's actually happening in the token exchange, and a practical guide on why .gitkeep files are the wrong call and what to do instead. You'll also explore building SQLite with a small agent swarm (a genuinely interesting experiment), and get a thorough breakdown of PostgreSQL JSONB: when it's the right tool, when it quietly kills your query performance, and how to index it correctly so you're not finding out the hard way in production.
To wrap it up, this week's projects bring you AdGuard Home for network-wide ad and tracker blocking at the DNS layer, OpenReplay for self-hosted session replay and product analytics, Schedy for lightweight HTTP task scheduling when cron is overkill, a self-hosted OpenAI-compatible local API for running LLMs on consumer hardware, and FeedCord for dead-simple RSS to Discord webhook pipelines - the kind of small automation that saves you twenty minutes every morning.
Newsworthy Reads
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Projects of the week
Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server
An open source, self-hostable, ultra-lightweight HTTP task scheduler for the weird and wonderful automation you want.
Self-hosted, community-driven, local OpenAI compatible API. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI running LLMs on consumer-grade hardware.
A dead simple RSS Feed with Discord Webhooks
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