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Welcome to this week’s Uptime Sync. This issue covers whether PostgreSQL can run without PgBouncer, how Kubernetes health checks brought down a payment service, and why better tools initially made Copilot code review worse. We also look at the 2026 FinOps roadmap, how ECS works for Kubernetes engineers, and the logging decisions that make incidents easier—or impossible—to debug.
On the practical side: building observable policy as code, designing a production-ready DevSecOps platform, migrating MinIO to Cloudflare R2, performing safer MySQL major-version upgrades, scaling Laravel and PostgreSQL with PgBouncer, and securing Kubernetes traffic with internal TLS.
This week’s projects include pgGraph for graph queries on existing Postgres tables, Nono for least-privilege AI-agent sandboxing, glab-tui for GitHub and GitLab from the terminal, Suzaku for hunting threats in CloudTrail logs, Svix for webhook delivery, and Starboard for a permanently docked macOS terminal.
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Projects of the Week
glab-tui browses GitLab and GitHub issues, merge requests, pipelines, and runners without leaving your terminal.
Suzaku hunts threats in AWS CloudTrail logs by applying Sigma detection rules to your API call history.
Svix handles webhook delivery, retries, and signing so you never have to build that layer yourself.
Starboard keeps a terminal permanently docked beside the macOS Dock instead of hidden behind a hotkey.
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