On October 20, 2025, AWS suffered a major outage in its most critical region (N. Virginia), causing global service disruptions for nearly 24 hours and impacting 140+ services. - No cyberattack involved. - The root cause was a DNS resolution failure in DynamoDB, triggering cascading issues across EC2..

This March, Pasadena becomes a rare convergence point for security, open source, and DevOps practitioners. As a media partner,FAUN.dev()is proud to support three community-driven events that are deeply practitioner-focused and unapologetically real. - SCALEanchors the week asNorth America's largest..

An async agent is not inherently async, it depends on whether you wait for it to finish or not. Async agents can manage their own event loop of other agents, spawning and coordinating them to handle tasks, just like an async runtime in programming. This architectural distinction allows for concurren.. read more  

A veteran Discord admin did a deep dive into chat platform alternatives - Signal, Matrix, Zulip, Rocket.Chat, Discourse - stacked against five key pillars: functionality, openness, security, safety, and decentralization. Discord didn't come out looking great. Centralized. No end-to-end encryption. S.. read more  

A seasoned CI engineer lays into GitHub Actions - too fragile, too fuzzy, too slow. Logs glitch. YAML confuses. Compute chokes. It solves for convenience, not power. Buildkitesteps in with stronger bones: reproducible runs, clean orchestration, and scalable agents you control... read more  

AI coding assistants work best when given clear context, a specific plan, and implemented in small, reviewable steps. Start with context, then a plan, and iterate through implementation and testing to avoid AI freelancing pitfalls... read more  

Organisations rely heavily on digital systems, yet manage important organisational data using outdated manual methods despite advanced automation capabilities in other areas. A novel "Company as Code" concept proposes a programmatic representation of the entire organisation, enabling structured, ver.. read more  

Kubernetes just dropped theNode Readiness Controller- a smarter way to track node health. It slaps taints on nodes based on custom signals, not just the plain old "Ready" status. The goal? Safer pod scheduling that actually reflects what’s going on under the hood. It's powered by theNodeReadinessRul.. read more  

Kyverno - a CNCF policy engine for Kubernetes - just dropped a critical one:CVE-2026-22039. It lets limited-access users jump namespaces by hijacking Kyverno'scluster-wide ServiceAccountthrough crafty use of policy context variable substitution. Think privilege escalation without breaking a sweat. I.. read more  

The Kubernetes Steering Committee is pulling the plug onIngress NGINX- official support ends March 2026. No more updates. No security patches. Gone. Why? It's been coasting on fumes. One or two part-time maintainers couldn't keep up. The tech debt piled up. Now it's a security liability. What's next.. read more