CatOps Digest 2026-02-27
What was on CatOps in the last couple of weeks...
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Charity
My co-author’s neighbor joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a combat medic, and now raises funds for some supplies. You can donate on a Monobank Jar.
A standing Monobank Jar for FPV drones components for a guy from my wife’s hometown.
Digest
An open letter to Oracle to establish a MySQL foundation - sign an open letter if you’re interested in the future of MySQL!
Collaboration sucks - an article from PostHog on why you may want to volume of ongoing discussions in your company.
AWS suffered ‘at least two outages’ caused by AI tools, and now I’m convinced we’re living inside a ‘Silicon Valley’ episode - apparently, recent prolonged incidents at AWS were caused by AI. AWS, unsurprisingly, declines these claims.
Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world - a story from OpenAI about how they create a service using only their Codex project without any human-writen code.
Why etcd breaks at scale in Kubernetes - a great explainer of how ETCD works in context of Kubernetes, as well as why and how it breaks.
Not that many articles in these two weeks, I must admit. Hopefully, I have more time to read through my backlog next weeks!
