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Welcome to this week’s Uptime Sync. This issue covers 12 AWS practices worth getting right early, PostgreSQL 18 delivering up to 23× faster UUID v7 inserts, and a Grok CLI incident that raised a serious question about what AI developer tools can access and upload from your machine. We also look at how Databricks uses AI to accelerate incident investigation, autoscaling AI workloads on Kubernetes with KEDA, the LSM tree behind many modern storage engines, and using Kubecost to make Kubernetes spend visible.
On the practical side: migrating a website to Cloudflare to reduce costs, running AI agents safely in GitHub Actions with Docker sandboxes, building low-cost self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud, handling long-running AWS DMS transactions, modeling state transitions in Postgres, and creating a local Kubernetes platform with kind and Argo CD.
This week’s projects include a local AI job-search framework, Worktrunk for managing Git worktrees across parallel AI-agent workflows, Omarchy for an opinionated modern Linux setup, and OpenHuman, a local-first personal AI memory and workflow orchestrator.
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AI Job Search - The job search that runs on your machine. AI job application framework built on Claude Code
Worktrunk is a CLI for Git worktree management, designed for parallel AI agent workflows
Omarchy - Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated Linux
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