#7 Uptime Sync: GPT-5.3 Codex, Claude Opus 4.6 & Netflix's Real-Time Graph

Welcome to this week's Uptime Sync. This issue opens with OpenAI's GPT-5.3-Codex launch bringing new capabilities to code generation, Anthropic's release of Claude Opus 4.6 pushing the boundaries of AI reasoning, Snyk's security research exposing 280+ credential leaks in OpenClaw and ClawHub skills that put API keys and PII at risk, Railway's perspective on how Heroku's legacy paved the way for modern platform-as-a-service, Netflix's engineering breakdown of building a real-time distributed graph that operates at internet scale, a compelling argument for why every developer should try self-hosting, and a staff engineer's honest take on estimating work without the usual BS.

On the tutorial front, you'll understand why browsers hate surprises and how to work with them instead of against them, build with the InfluxDB 3 MCP Server integrated with Claude, navigate the Ingress-NGINX deprecation before migrating to Gateway API, sandbox AI agents safely in Linux environments, turn GitHub Actions into a time-sharing supercomputer for parallel workloads, and implement canary deployments with Traefik using weighted load balancing for zero-downtime releases.

To wrap things up, this week's projects bring you Moltbook's core API service for agent management and personalized content feeds, a massive collective list of free public APIs for your next project, kubecolor for adding visual clarity to your kubectl output with syntax highlighting, and a comprehensive collection of Linux sysadmin test questions and answers to sharpen your troubleshooting skills.

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