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A trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever just said the quiet part out loud: scaling laws are breaking down. Bigger models aren’t getting better at thinking, they’re getting worse at generalizing and reasoning. Now he’s eyeingneurosymbolic AIandinnate inductive constraints. Yep, the “just make it huge” era m.. read more  

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Practical LLM Security Advice from the NVIDIA AI Red Team

NVIDIA’s AI Red Team nailed three security sinkholes in LLMs:reckless use ofexec/eval,RAG pipelines that grab too much data, andmarkdown that doesn't get cleaned. These cracks open doors to remote code execution, sneaky prompt injection, and link-based data leaks. The fix-it trend:App security’s lea.. read more  

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Why we're leaving serverless

Every millisecond matters in the critical path of API authentication. After two years of battling serverless limitations, the entire API stack was rebuilt to reduce end-to-end latency. The move from Cloudflare Workers to stateful Go servers resulted in a 6x performance improvement and simplified arc.. read more  

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Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure: Safety Without Disruption

Slack pulled back the curtain onSlack AI, its LLM-powered assistant built with a fortress mindset. Every customer gets their ownisolated environment. Any data passed tovendor LLMs? It'sephemeral. Gone before it can stick. No fine-tuning. No exporting data outside Slack. And there’s a wholemiddle-lay.. read more  

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The story of how we almost got hacked

Team Invictus caught a BEC attempt using WeTransfer to slip in a fake Microsoft 365 login page powered byEvilProxy. Classic Adversary-in-the-Middle move, but dressed up with a slick delivery package. Digging deeper, the team mapped the attacker’s setup and found something bigger: a credential grab c.. read more  

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Comparing AWS Lambda Arm64 vs x86_64 Performance Across Multiple Runtimes in Late 2025

A new open-source benchmark looked at 183,000 AWS Lambda invocations, andarm64 beats x86_64across the board in both cost and speed. Rust on arm64 with SHA-256 tuned in assembly? It clocks in 4–5× faster than x86 in CPU-heavy tasks. Cold starts are snappy too—5–8× quicker than Node.js and Python... read more  

Comparing AWS Lambda Arm64 vs x86_64 Performance Across Multiple Runtimes in Late 2025
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Declarative Action Architecture

The Declarative Action Architecture (DAA) is a scalable E2E testing pattern that separates concerns across three distinct layers. TheTest Layeris 100% declarative, statingwhatis being tested without any procedural logic, making tests read like documentation. The coreAction Layerimplements the execut.. read more  

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Failure is inevitable: Learning from a large outage, and building for reliability in depth at

Datadog ditched its “never fail” mindset after a March 2023 meltdown knocked out half its Kubernetes nodes and took major user features down with them. The fix? A full-stack rethink built aroundgraceful degradation. The team addeddisk-based persistence at intake,live-data prioritization,QoS-aware re.. read more  

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You’ll never see attrition referenced in an RCA

Lorin Hochstein argues that while high-profile engineer attrition is often speculated to contribute to major outages, it is universally absent from public Root Cause Analyses (RCAs). This exclusion occurs because public RCAs aim to reassure customers by focusing on technical fixes, whereas attrition.. read more  

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Agent Sandbox Brings Kernel-Level Guardrails to AI Agents on Kubernetes

gVisor Kata Containers Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Kubernetes

Agent Sandbox, a new Kubernetes primitive, was introduced at KubeCon NA 2025 to enhance AI agent management on Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine.

Agent Sandbox Brings Kernel-Level Guardrails to AI Agents on Kubernetes
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We're looking for stories about how you and your organizations are adapting your mindsets, processes, and team dynamics in this rapidly evolving landscape. How did your team integrate AI into existing workflows? What changed about collaboration when AI entered the picture? Where do humans remain critical in automated processes? How do you build the next generation of engineers when entry-level work is automated? What are the real implementation challenges you're facing in Southern California's entertainment, gaming, aerospace, retail, healthcare, and manufacturing companies?

What makes DevOpsDayLA different: We focus on culture, collaboration, and cross-industry implementation stories rather than pure technical deep-dives. We're all about the people and processes that make technology successful in an AI world, not the technology itself.

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