Hey SweetOps folks! 👋 This one felt appropriate to drop here:

• Felicitas Pojtinger (Loophole Labs) — Legacy-Free, Zero-Maintenance RISC-V Kubernetes Clusters With Immutable Linux and ClickHouse®
It’s part of the Anti-Hype Conference for Open Source Analytics and AI happening Nov 2 in SF + online.

👉️ luma.com/eis7567t?…
If “RISC-V + Kubernetes + immutable Linux” got your attention, you should definitely join! 😄

Hey guys, random question.

For people working with SaaS companies, are you seeing much demand for continuous external pentesting these days?

Not just automated scanning, but someone continuously testing the external attack surface and only reporting findings they can actually prove/exploit.

Been exploring this space recently and curious if companies actually want this, or if most are still happy with annual pentests.

not sure if it is a personal feeling or I indulged in Japanese learning, recently the interesting projects are less, we may consider to use a different license model to encourage innovations, instead of open source license, how about open idea license 🙂

Graftcode lets you call methods across languages and runtimes as if they were local—without APIs, SDKs, or integration-layer code.
🔗 https://graftcode.com/

The HuggingFace security.txt is pretty funny: https://huggingface.co/security.txt

this is pretty cool: https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat

https://tailscale.com/tailcat#what-are-the-tailcat-data-and-control-planes

Hey everyone! Im an indie developer trying so hard to promote my app and I just wanna share a reel for my personal app Before leaving and I would appreciate likes, comments and shares to get reach to get more feedback from users🙏🏽
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DclJt14xdNZ/?igsi=eGIycnhvdTR4NTMz

https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns/releases/tag/v0.22.0

Hi. Just joined this slack.

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/…/cloud-cost-api-pulling-reconciled-aws-azure-and-gcp-spend-into-your-own-warehouse-csv-json…

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/

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.

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.

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!

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

anyone knows any opportunities from Japanese companies? I am learning Japanese and want to keep the link to Japan after the recent trip 🙂

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-share…

https://zachholman.com/posts/cold-email

Hello again! Back this week with another post about being unemployed 😂 ordisi.us/posts/2026_5_unemployment

Hey everyone! 👋

Quick follow-up on FineScale (finescale.ai) for anyone who missed the last post!
We’ve 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 community—feel free to drop a line below or DM me directly! 🚀

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 🙏🏽 ordisi.us/posts/2026_4_layoffs

Are you a leader? You'll find this useful on how to approach security related budgeting problem.
blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/ale-budget

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 !

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

Classic path to prod

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

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.

Hey everyone, Chi here 👋

Quick update on the AI Infra Summit 2026 (Sept 15–17, Santa Clara Convention Center) — 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:

🔷 Five Diamond Sponsors now confirmed - AWS, Intel, Qualcomm, Ambarella, and Oracle

🎤 Speaker additions worth knowing about:

• Jeff Dean — Chief Scientist & Technical Lead, Gemini (Google DeepMind)
• Peter DeSantis — SVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon & Quantum Computing (Amazon)
• Lip-Bu Tan — CEO (Intel)
• Ian Buck — VP, Hyperscale & HPC Computing (NVIDIA)
• Santosh Janardhan — VP, Infrastructure (Meta)
• Daniela Rus — Director, CSAIL (MIT)
• Jonathan Hurst — Co-Founder & Chief Robot Officer (Agility Robotics)
• 400 total across 8 stages
🆕 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 🙌

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

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

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

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 × 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.

Hi everyone!

I'm currently partnering with Micro1, which is looking to onboard companies with 30–200 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 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.

This is why I hate giving away my passport to KYC platforms!

blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/reqrea-case

https://www.fernandoi.cl/posts/hackmyclaw/

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

TIL: Codex has quota resets.

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 wrote an article about tools saturation. Give me please your thoughts

https://blog.mousa-cloud.com/posts/stop-developing-tools/

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.