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Welcome to this week’s Uptime Sync. We cover Cloudflare’s breakdown of eight compromised eMudhra certificates and how an unrevoked key led to LiteLLM’s malicious release. We also look at giving agents context before buying an AI SRE, parallelizing MySQL snapshots, and what 14 LLMs proposed after an AWS credential compromise. For anyone relying on a green backup dashboard, there’s a closer look at why successful PostgreSQL backups don’t prove you can recover.
On the tutorial front: trace MCP tool calls with OpenTelemetry, protect secrets when coding agents deploy your app, and learn how Prisma moved its control plane to Prisma Postgres without downtime. We also cover near-zero-downtime RDS MariaDB upgrades with blue/green deployments, managing a Mac with dotfiles and Ansible, and monitoring Azure Functions with metrics, logs, and OpenTelemetry.
This week’s projects include Agent Vault for proxying and managing AI-agent credentials, Logtide for self-hosted log management, and Agentic Resource Registry for sharing coding-agent resources across your team. Zeabur brings a self-hosted PaaS to your Kubernetes cluster, while Vulnerator AI combines Hermes with Kali and Playwright tools over MCP for automated pentesting.
Newsworthy Reads
Tutorials of the Week
Projects of the Week
Agent Vault - A HTTP credential proxy and vault for AI agents like Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes, custom agents + harnesses, and more.
Logtide - Open-source, self-hosted log management. Privacy-first alternative to Datadog & ELK. Lightweight, GDPR-compliant, and deployed in minutes with Docker.
LogTide - Open Source Log Management
Agentic Resource Registry - Share and discover coding agent resources across your team. Self-hosted, Apache 2.0, works with Claude Code, Kiro, Cursor, Codex, Pi and more.
Zeabur - Self-hosted PaaS on your own Kubernetes.
Vulnerator AI - Autonomous OODA-loop pentesting agent. Hermes brain, Kali + Playwright tools over MCP, ATT&CK as the Orient language.
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