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Welcome to this week’s Uptime Sync. We cover the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise, the compromised LiteLLM v1.107.0 release, and why Anthropic built its own source control system. There’s also a look inside DigitalOcean’s pause-and-resume microVMs, the risks of ON DELETE CASCADE, and running an AI agent in CI/CD. LinkedIn shares how it traces user journeys with OpenTelemetry, while Control D breaks down its October DNS outage.
On the tutorial front: set up Karpenter on EKS with Terraform, cut Azure costs, and migrate an application from AWS to GKE. We also look at giving your existing AI agent useful context before evaluating an AI SRE, setting up Prometheus Blackbox Exporter probes and alerts, and hosting throwaway apps with Dokku and a wildcard domain.
This week’s projects include Topophany for network topology and availability monitoring, XPipe for accessing servers from your desktop, and Drip for exposing localhost through self-hosted tunnels. Agent Fleet gives you a web console to manage AI coding agents, OpenAPPA adds deterministic agent guardrails, and CrossCanvas lets you edit network diagrams locally and import existing Visio, Gliffy, or draw.io files.
Newsworthy Reads
Tutorials of the Week
Projects of the Week
Topophany - Self-hosted network topology and service availability monitoring with a terminal UI
XPipe - Access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop
Drip - Self-hosted tunneling solution to expose localhost securely - unlimited bandwidth, no third-party servers
Agent Fleet - Self-hosted web console for running AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Antigravity, Cursor, Kiro, OpenCode) as a managed fleet
OpenAPPA - Deterministic guardrails that don't break agents
CrossCanvas - Lightweight, locally hostable network diagram editor - imports Visio, Gliffy, and draw.io diagrams plus common device inventory formats.
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