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Amanpreet Kaur3 days ago
getting your aws/azure/gcp spend into your own database sounds easy, just export it and load it. the annoying part is the cloud keeps rewriting the current month's numbers, so if you're not careful you end up double-counting and your totals don't match the actual bill.
decent writeup on doing it without that mess. worth a read if you're building your own cost reporting.
dev.to/ā¦/cloud-cost-api-pulling-reconciled-aws-azure-and-gcp-spend-into-your-own-warehouse-csv-jsonā¦
decent writeup on doing it without that mess. worth a read if you're building your own cost reporting.
dev.to/ā¦/cloud-cost-api-pulling-reconciled-aws-azure-and-gcp-spend-into-your-own-warehouse-csv-jsonā¦
erik10 days ago(edited)
I thought jellyfish was a new stuxnet until I realized it was Mother Nature.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/jellyfish-hit-french-nuclear-plant-shuts-down-three-reactors-2026-08-11/
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/jellyfish-hit-french-nuclear-plant-shuts-down-three-reactors-2026-08-11/
Mousa10 days ago(edited)
Hi guys, I have a question. I'm running a solo consulting company registered in the UK, and I operate on B2B basis. Has anyone like me been able to land projects with US based companies remotely maybe? As per my research and resources I checked so far, I couldn't find any barriers that companies would face in the US to use my consulting services; but if am wrong please correct me. Thank you
Note: I'm not talking about government related projects.
Note: I'm not talking about government related projects.
paulm16 days ago
For people who query S3 buckets with very large numbers of objects, github.com/varveio/swath looks interesting.
I haven't tested it (my needs are simple), and the author used AI/LLM code generation, but I spot-checked two details that give me confidence. The documentation recommends dynamically listing big buckets as a last resort and mentions AWS-idiomatic alternatives. More importantly, this is one of the few pieces of software I've seen that bothers to set the AWS SDK retry mode, a zero-effort way to increase reliability whenever we use an AWS SDK. (See the 2026-05-20 AWS Developer Tools Blog post, "Announcing updated retry behavior for AWS SDKs and Tools".)
I like the way the author used AI not just to generate code but also to explore how other parallel S3 bucket listing tools work. A readily apparent drawback of code generation is vastly increased complexity; there are too many files and too many lines to read. Everything rests on whether comprehensive distributed systems testing is possible and whether the tests have caught potential race conditions.
I haven't tested it (my needs are simple), and the author used AI/LLM code generation, but I spot-checked two details that give me confidence. The documentation recommends dynamically listing big buckets as a last resort and mentions AWS-idiomatic alternatives. More importantly, this is one of the few pieces of software I've seen that bothers to set the AWS SDK retry mode, a zero-effort way to increase reliability whenever we use an AWS SDK. (See the 2026-05-20 AWS Developer Tools Blog post, "Announcing updated retry behavior for AWS SDKs and Tools".)
I like the way the author used AI not just to generate code but also to explore how other parallel S3 bucket listing tools work. A readily apparent drawback of code generation is vastly increased complexity; there are too many files and too many lines to read. Everything rests on whether comprehensive distributed systems testing is possible and whether the tests have caught potential race conditions.
Eshani Kaushal17 days ago
Hi all,
Quick question, does anyone here run a dev agency or have an old codebase (a shelved project, a shut-down startup, internal tools nobody uses anymore)? Our agency is looking to license such code bases. Please DM me only if this is relevant to you. Thanks!
Quick question, does anyone here run a dev agency or have an old codebase (a shelved project, a shut-down startup, internal tools nobody uses anymore)? Our agency is looking to license such code bases. Please DM me only if this is relevant to you. Thanks!
Mousa17 days ago
Is your company's data center consumption contributing to carbon emissions? Europe and other regions have experienced several extreme heatwaves due to climate change and other factors. Data centers have been also an ongoing discussion due to their environmental impact.
Wanna get an insight on your company's emissions anonymously? Try my calculator:
mousa-cloud.com/environment-cloud-calculator.html
Wanna get an insight on your company's emissions anonymously? Try my calculator:
mousa-cloud.com/environment-cloud-calculator.html
Sajja Sudhakararao19 days ago
Built an open-source SQL diagnostics tool ā paste any query, get severity-ranked findings with dialect-correct DDL across 5 databases. No DB connection needed.
New: findings are labelled with three evidence tiers:
Deterministic ā always applies regardless of data
Schema-verified ā verified against your DDL
Estimated ā pattern-based, verify with EXPLAIN
<https://querytuner.com/> ā free, no signup
<https://github.com/AutoShiftOps/querytuner>
Especially curious whether the evidence labelling is useful or confusing to real users.Hao Wang19 days ago
anyone knows any opportunities from Japanese companies? I am learning Japanese and want to keep the link to Japan after the recent trip š
Joe Perez23 days ago
here's something silly that I 100% vibecoded and the ridiculous LinkedIn post to go with it
linkedin.com/posts/joe--perez_github-jperez3followback-a-tool-to-help-shareā¦
linkedin.com/posts/joe--perez_github-jperez3followback-a-tool-to-help-shareā¦
Joe Perez25 days ago
Hello again! Back this week with another post about being unemployed š ordisi.us/posts/2026_5_unemployment
Yash Babout 1 month ago
Hey everyone! š
Quick follow-up on FineScale (finescale.ai) for anyone who missed the last post!
Weāve recently added new AI-driven recommendation capabilities to help teams automatically right-size Kubernetes workloads and eliminate over-provisioning across EKS, AKS, GKE, and self-hosted clusters.
If K8s cost optimization or multi-tenant visibility is on your roadmap this quarter, check out finescale.ai.
Would love any feedback or thoughts from the communityāfeel free to drop a line below or DM me directly! š
Quick follow-up on FineScale (finescale.ai) for anyone who missed the last post!
Weāve recently added new AI-driven recommendation capabilities to help teams automatically right-size Kubernetes workloads and eliminate over-provisioning across EKS, AKS, GKE, and self-hosted clusters.
If K8s cost optimization or multi-tenant visibility is on your roadmap this quarter, check out finescale.ai.
Would love any feedback or thoughts from the communityāfeel free to drop a line below or DM me directly! š
Joe Perezabout 1 month ago
Hello Friends! Sharing some thoughts on how I kept my job as long as I did and how it may help you in your current situation šš½ ordisi.us/posts/2026_4_layoffs
Mousaabout 1 month ago
Are you a leader? You'll find this useful on how to approach security related budgeting problem.
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/ale-budget
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/ale-budget
Raman Varmaabout 1 month ago
Hey all! We just launched Kestrel Workflows and would love to get feedback from the community.
Kestrel is an AI automation layer for platform engineering teams. It turns natural-language prompts into deterministic workflows that automate incident response, infra provisioning, CI/CD, security, and developer requests.
It supports 30+ integrations across infrastructure, PaaS, AI compute, observability, on-call, networking, databases, CI/CD, and IaC, plus custom HTTP APIs and webhooks for anything else.
It's also developer-first with a CLI, Python SDK, and MCP server so you and your coding agents can build and manage workflows from the terminal or in code.
Would appreciate any feedback/support on our launch posts: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7483212042355712000 / ycombinator.com/launches/R4u-kestrel-ai-agents-for-platform-engineering
You can also try it out with up to $1,000 in usage credits at usekestrel.ai !
Kestrel is an AI automation layer for platform engineering teams. It turns natural-language prompts into deterministic workflows that automate incident response, infra provisioning, CI/CD, security, and developer requests.
It supports 30+ integrations across infrastructure, PaaS, AI compute, observability, on-call, networking, databases, CI/CD, and IaC, plus custom HTTP APIs and webhooks for anything else.
It's also developer-first with a CLI, Python SDK, and MCP server so you and your coding agents can build and manage workflows from the terminal or in code.
Would appreciate any feedback/support on our launch posts: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7483212042355712000 / ycombinator.com/launches/R4u-kestrel-ai-agents-for-platform-engineering
You can also try it out with up to $1,000 in usage credits at usekestrel.ai !
Asjad khanabout 1 month ago
Hey all,
This might be a great article for infrastructure teams managing LLM costs at scale. The provider evaluation section is quite useful: same model, different providers, meaningfully different cache hit rates and eval scores.
ito.ai/blog/measuring-100b-tokens-week-open-weight-models
This might be a great article for infrastructure teams managing LLM costs at scale. The provider evaluation section is quite useful: same model, different providers, meaningfully different cache hit rates and eval scores.
ito.ai/blog/measuring-100b-tokens-week-open-weight-models
Marvin Strangfeldabout 1 month ago
Classic path to prod
Mousaabout 1 month ago
Might be interesting article for those in the EU. As you know, EU passed recently a controversial amendment to what's popularly known as "EU Chat Control".
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/eu-chat-control
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/eu-chat-control
Shruti Mangalabout 1 month ago
Hello, Does anyone here work in the DevOps domain at PayPal, US?
I am looking for a connection there, for help with a job req.
I am looking for a connection there, for help with a job req.
Chiabout 2 months ago
Hey everyone, Chi here š
Quick update on the AI Infra Summit 2026 (Sept 15ā17, Santa Clara Convention Center) ā a lot has changed since I last posted and wanted to flag it for anyone who missed it.
tl;dr: free tickets still available for engineers and technical leaders at qualifying enterprises and hyperscalers, worth $3,297, no catch.
What's dropped since last time:
š· Five Diamond Sponsors now confirmed - AWS, Intel, Qualcomm, Ambarella, and Oracle
š¤ Speaker additions worth knowing about:
⢠Jeff Dean ā Chief Scientist & Technical Lead, Gemini (Google DeepMind)
⢠Peter DeSantis ā SVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon & Quantum Computing (Amazon)
⢠Lip-Bu Tan ā CEO (Intel)
⢠Ian Buck ā VP, Hyperscale & HPC Computing (NVIDIA)
⢠Santosh Janardhan ā VP, Infrastructure (Meta)
⢠Daniela Rus ā Director, CSAIL (MIT)
⢠Jonathan Hurst ā Co-Founder & Chief Robot Officer (Agility Robotics)
⢠400 total across 8 stages
š Also new this year is a dedicated Physical AI track covering humanoid robotics, autonomous systems and deployment. It's the first time we've done this at the summit.
We're 10 weeks out and spots are filling fast, so if you've been sitting on this, now's the time.
Apply: reg.kisacoresearch.com/submissions/696a168d8f1a0de3e1c774d9/69735576d4072b89834401d9
Full agenda: ai-infra-summit.com/2026agenda
DM me or drop a comment if you have any questions, I'm happy to help š
Quick update on the AI Infra Summit 2026 (Sept 15ā17, Santa Clara Convention Center) ā a lot has changed since I last posted and wanted to flag it for anyone who missed it.
tl;dr: free tickets still available for engineers and technical leaders at qualifying enterprises and hyperscalers, worth $3,297, no catch.
What's dropped since last time:
š· Five Diamond Sponsors now confirmed - AWS, Intel, Qualcomm, Ambarella, and Oracle
š¤ Speaker additions worth knowing about:
⢠Jeff Dean ā Chief Scientist & Technical Lead, Gemini (Google DeepMind)
⢠Peter DeSantis ā SVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon & Quantum Computing (Amazon)
⢠Lip-Bu Tan ā CEO (Intel)
⢠Ian Buck ā VP, Hyperscale & HPC Computing (NVIDIA)
⢠Santosh Janardhan ā VP, Infrastructure (Meta)
⢠Daniela Rus ā Director, CSAIL (MIT)
⢠Jonathan Hurst ā Co-Founder & Chief Robot Officer (Agility Robotics)
⢠400 total across 8 stages
š Also new this year is a dedicated Physical AI track covering humanoid robotics, autonomous systems and deployment. It's the first time we've done this at the summit.
We're 10 weeks out and spots are filling fast, so if you've been sitting on this, now's the time.
Apply: reg.kisacoresearch.com/submissions/696a168d8f1a0de3e1c774d9/69735576d4072b89834401d9
Full agenda: ai-infra-summit.com/2026agenda
DM me or drop a comment if you have any questions, I'm happy to help š
Rohit Shahiabout 2 months ago
Hey SweetOps! If you're the one dealing with data pipeline reliability and now getting pulled into RAG or LLM data work, this might be worth your time.
There's a hands on workshop on August 1 with Nikola Ilic, called "Designing Data Engineering Workflows for LLM Applications."
You build a full production ready pipeline live during the session, ingestion, chunking, metadata, embeddings, vector storage, retrieval, and evaluation. It also covers the batch versus incremental refresh question, along with versioning and monitoring once things are live, the same operational concerns you already deal with, just applied to RAG pipelines instead of traditional infrastructure.
You walk away with the source code, slides, and hands on lab files, plus a recording and certificate.
4 hours, code first throughout, Python and basic API/JSON familiarity required.
Full details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-data-engineering-workflows-for-llm-applications-hands-on-tickets�aff=sop1
There's a hands on workshop on August 1 with Nikola Ilic, called "Designing Data Engineering Workflows for LLM Applications."
You build a full production ready pipeline live during the session, ingestion, chunking, metadata, embeddings, vector storage, retrieval, and evaluation. It also covers the batch versus incremental refresh question, along with versioning and monitoring once things are live, the same operational concerns you already deal with, just applied to RAG pipelines instead of traditional infrastructure.
You walk away with the source code, slides, and hands on lab files, plus a recording and certificate.
4 hours, code first throughout, Python and basic API/JSON familiarity required.
Full details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-data-engineering-workflows-for-llm-applications-hands-on-tickets�aff=sop1
Bruno Andradeabout 2 months ago
Anyone building/using AI agents to automate DevOps and SRE tasks? If yes, how are you handling memory?
Would love to have a quick chat about this
Would love to have a quick chat about this
Jim Parkabout 2 months ago(edited)
Hi there, it's been a minute, but I would like to share something I've been working on to help me manage my at-home projects. Managing 10+ tabs was altogether too much to manage. Meet flotilla, a chief of staff for the n things you have going on. Free, opensource, and solves my problem maybe it'll help you with yours as well: jim80net.github.io/flotilla
paulmabout 2 months ago(edited)
My free, open-source EC2 and RDS scheduler has supported multi-region, multi-account deployment since 2017.
I've just updated github.com/sqlxpert/lights-off-aws to let Terraform users in big AWS organizations increase deployment concurrency instead of accepting conservative defaults. Advanced users can deploy to non-uniform region, organizational unit and AWS account combinations, rather than to the simple Cartesian product, regions Ć OUs.
This feature request came all the way from a user in Finland, who was kind enough to write a basic PR.
I re-checked AWS's official solution, Instance Scheduler. Despite Instance Scheduler's complexity, broad permissions, and external dependencies, AWS still wasn't providing immutable releases as of June, 2026.
If you share my belief that simplicity is security, and if you care about independently-written alternatives to corporate software, please give Lights Off a try.
I've just updated github.com/sqlxpert/lights-off-aws to let Terraform users in big AWS organizations increase deployment concurrency instead of accepting conservative defaults. Advanced users can deploy to non-uniform region, organizational unit and AWS account combinations, rather than to the simple Cartesian product, regions Ć OUs.
This feature request came all the way from a user in Finland, who was kind enough to write a basic PR.
I re-checked AWS's official solution, Instance Scheduler. Despite Instance Scheduler's complexity, broad permissions, and external dependencies, AWS still wasn't providing immutable releases as of June, 2026.
If you share my belief that simplicity is security, and if you care about independently-written alternatives to corporate software, please give Lights Off a try.
Addyabout 2 months ago
Hi everyone!
I'm currently partnering with Micro1, which is looking to onboard companies with 30ā200 employees in the US, Europe, or LATAM for its Enterprise Data Partnership program.
If your company has well-documented processes and workflows and is interested in exploring a partnership with a leading AI company, I'd be happy to share more details and the referral link.
If this sounds relevant to your company or one you know, feel free to send me a DM.
I'm currently partnering with Micro1, which is looking to onboard companies with 30ā200 employees in the US, Europe, or LATAM for its Enterprise Data Partnership program.
If your company has well-documented processes and workflows and is interested in exploring a partnership with a leading AI company, I'd be happy to share more details and the referral link.
If this sounds relevant to your company or one you know, feel free to send me a DM.
Mousaabout 2 months ago(edited)
I have a question. I heard multiple stories about a scam scheme where US citizens are used as proxies for getting a job in the US. Question is, why does someone need a US citizen for work? (Forgive me if this is a noob question). I'm EU/UK based, so I don't know about this problem in particular.
Mousaabout 2 months ago
erikabout 2 months ago
Mousaabout 2 months ago
I wrote an article not long ago which I think might be interesting for this community. Happy to hear your thoughts or ideas. Always open to discussions.
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/smb-common-mistake
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/smb-common-mistake
erikabout 2 months ago
TIL: Codex has quota resets.
Bruno Andrade2 months ago
hey everyone!
I'm sure AI agents is something everyone is looking at leveraging to help troubleshoot problems
I put an MVP in place and made it available here
I'm sure AI agents is something everyone is looking at leveraging to help troubleshoot problems
I put an MVP in place and made it available here
Mousa2 months ago
I wrote an article about tools saturation. Give me please your thoughts
https://blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/stop-developing-tools/
https://blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/stop-developing-tools/
Hao Wang2 months ago
In the recent updates of Claude Code, the old models are added back, which seems to show its new model Fable 5 is gone forever.
Simple Poll2 months ago(edited)
are you pretending to work hard recently in AI era?
Hao Wang2 months ago
if you like soccer, I feel this world cup is different, better, more entertaining even in group matches
Hao Wang2 months ago
a quick thought if it helps: AI should not be used during a midnight upgrade or migration, if AI is used, a new maint window should be required
Josh Pollara2 months ago
Stategraph is having its next demo day on the 24th.
This one's a deep dive on how Stategraph actually works under the hood, plus a look at Stategraph Cost. We'll get into how the dependency graph is stored in the schema, how surgical reads let you pull individual outputs via
Sign up here (pants optional): https://stategraph.com/demo-day
This one's a deep dive on how Stategraph actually works under the hood, plus a look at Stategraph Cost. We'll get into how the dependency graph is stored in the schema, how surgical reads let you pull individual outputs via
terraform_remote_state instead of locking the whole state, and how blast radius uses the graph to show exactly what a change touches before you apply.Sign up here (pants optional): https://stategraph.com/demo-day
Hao Wang2 months ago
Iām testing the new model of Claude
Fable 5 hope it will surprise meHao Wang2 months ago
the goal of Anthropic is to get everybody on 200$ plan and then push now 200 to 1000 even more
Rohit Shahi2 months ago
Hey everyone! Sharing something that's directly relevant to anyone running LLM agents in production.
We're hosting a hands on Agent Evals Bootcamp on June 27 with Ammar Mahanna, PhD, an AI engineer, researcher, educator and expert in production AI and agent evaluation. Someone who actually builds and evaluates production AI systems professionally.
The bootcamp is 4 hours live and you build 10 real evaluation notebooks on the day covering component level evaluation, outcome evaluation, LLM as judge, regression pipelines and production evaluation workflows. You leave with frameworks you can plug into your own systems from day one, not just course notes.
Most people building agents spend weeks tweaking prompts and swapping models but have no real way to measure what is actually better. This bootcamp fixes that.
Every attendee also gets 30 days recording access and a Packt endorsed certification that goes straight on your LinkedIn.
Full details here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agent-evals-bootcamp-tickets-1990306501323?aff=swops
We're hosting a hands on Agent Evals Bootcamp on June 27 with Ammar Mahanna, PhD, an AI engineer, researcher, educator and expert in production AI and agent evaluation. Someone who actually builds and evaluates production AI systems professionally.
The bootcamp is 4 hours live and you build 10 real evaluation notebooks on the day covering component level evaluation, outcome evaluation, LLM as judge, regression pipelines and production evaluation workflows. You leave with frameworks you can plug into your own systems from day one, not just course notes.
Most people building agents spend weeks tweaking prompts and swapping models but have no real way to measure what is actually better. This bootcamp fixes that.
Every attendee also gets 30 days recording access and a Packt endorsed certification that goes straight on your LinkedIn.
Full details here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agent-evals-bootcamp-tickets-1990306501323?aff=swops
erik3 months ago
PSA remember to tokenmax between now and 6/15 when Anthropic kills the Pro Max all you can eat buffet.erik3 months ago
@dude I've been kicking the tires on Hermes Agent. Questions for you.
Hao Wang3 months ago(edited)
Hao Wang3 months ago
the more apps I developed, the less optimistic I think AI can bring to job market