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Arooj Sajid1 day ago
Hi everyone,
We've been building TestRadius, a tool that uses Agentic AI to automate QA, turning natural language flows into autonomous UI and API tests.
We're still early and would really appreciate feedback from engineers here if you get a chance to try it out.
Early access is free: testradius.dev/login?mode=signup
Any thoughts, good or bad, would mean a lot!
We've been building TestRadius, a tool that uses Agentic AI to automate QA, turning natural language flows into autonomous UI and API tests.
We're still early and would really appreciate feedback from engineers here if you get a chance to try it out.
Early access is free: testradius.dev/login?mode=signup
Any thoughts, good or bad, would mean a lot!
erik6 days ago
Kaveh9 days ago
Hey everyone, I’m looking for beta users for Latchkey, a tool for running GitHub Actions that also fixes failing builds automatically. It’s completely free, we just want feedback to improve the platform. DM me if you’re interested. latchkey.dev
Courtney Gannon13 days ago(edited)
Hi Folks, I'm new here. I work at Splunk on the OTel team. I was hoping to get some feedback on a new open source project we just launched called Observability Studio (ObStudio), a local OpenTelemetry workspace that helps developers audit, add, and verify instrumentation. The goal is to make OTel simpler to implement and help more teams adopt it.
Here's a link to the repo and a getting started guide. If you play around with it, I'd love your feedback. Where does implementation still feel hardest? What would make ObStudio more useful in your workflow? If you don't have an observability backend you can mess around in, we have a very generous free edition of our observability platform here. Thanks! Have a great weekend!
Here's a link to the repo and a getting started guide. If you play around with it, I'd love your feedback. Where does implementation still feel hardest? What would make ObStudio more useful in your workflow? If you don't have an observability backend you can mess around in, we have a very generous free edition of our observability platform here. Thanks! Have a great weekend!
toka20 days ago(edited)
Random question on Friday so I bet this is the right place.
You need to build CICD pipeline to compile, test, dockerize, sign and push to storage from scratch, no questions asked. It has to be generic to support multiple coding langs and their ecosystems in a single monorepo.
Approach is to solve it like a Software Engineer - you want to run CICID, compile, test and change locally, like any SWE would do, and then run it on GH Actions, GitLab or whatever, treating the SVC platform as a shim or mere adapter to your CICD at best.
What would you do? Am I insane nothing like it exists?
You need to build CICD pipeline to compile, test, dockerize, sign and push to storage from scratch, no questions asked. It has to be generic to support multiple coding langs and their ecosystems in a single monorepo.
Approach is to solve it like a Software Engineer - you want to run CICID, compile, test and change locally, like any SWE would do, and then run it on GH Actions, GitLab or whatever, treating the SVC platform as a shim or mere adapter to your CICD at best.
What would you do? Am I insane nothing like it exists?
Hao Wang22 days ago(edited)
$ fm respond "can you access internet?"
Yes, I can access the internet.Chiara Toselli23 days ago
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! 😄
• 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! 😄
erik25 days ago
erik25 days ago
ethicalhumanoid25 days ago
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.
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.
Hao Wang29 days ago
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 🙂
Akshat sharmaabout 1 month ago
Graftcode lets you call methods across languages and runtimes as if they were local—without APIs, SDKs, or integration-layer code.
🔗 https://graftcode.com/
🔗 https://graftcode.com/
Michaelabout 1 month ago
The HuggingFace security.txt is pretty funny: https://huggingface.co/security.txt
venkataabout 2 months ago
this is pretty cool: https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat
https://tailscale.com/tailcat#what-are-the-tailcat-data-and-control-planes
https://tailscale.com/tailcat#what-are-the-tailcat-data-and-control-planes
Shady Ghalababout 2 months ago
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://www.instagram.com/reel/DclJt14xdNZ/?igsi=eGIycnhvdTR4NTMz
Hammad Javedabout 2 months ago
Hi. Just joined this slack.
Amanpreet Kaur2 months 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/…/cloud-cost-api-pulling-reconciled-aws-azure-and-gcp-spend-into-your-own-warehouse-csv-json…
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…
erik2 months 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/
Mousa2 months 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.
paulm3 months 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 Kaushal3 months 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!
Mousa3 months 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 Sudhakararao3 months ago
Built an open-source SQL diagnostics tool — 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 — always applies regardless of data
Schema-verified — verified against your DDL
Estimated — pattern-based, verify with EXPLAIN
<https://querytuner.com/> — free, no signup
<https://github.com/AutoShiftOps/querytuner>
Especially curious whether the evidence labelling is useful or confusing to real users.Hao Wang3 months ago
anyone knows any opportunities from Japanese companies? I am learning Japanese and want to keep the link to Japan after the recent trip 🙂
Joe Perez3 months 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-share…
linkedin.com/posts/joe--perez_github-jperez3followback-a-tool-to-help-share…
Joe Perez3 months ago
Hello again! Back this week with another post about being unemployed 😂 ordisi.us/posts/2026_5_unemployment
Yash B3 months ago
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! 🚀
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! 🚀
Joe Perez3 months 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 🙏🏽 ordisi.us/posts/2026_4_layoffs
Mousa3 months 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 Varma3 months 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 khan3 months 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 Strangfeld3 months ago
Classic path to prod
Mousa3 months 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 Mangal3 months 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.
Chi4 months ago
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 🙌
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 🙌
Rohit Shahi4 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 Andrade4 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 Park4 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
paulm4 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 × 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 × 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.
Addy4 months ago
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'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.
Mousa4 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.
Mousa4 months ago
erik4 months ago