CatOps Digest 2026-03-22
What was on CatOps in the last 3 weeks...
Charity
Dronefall by Come Back Alive. A big standing fundraiser to provide interceptor drones and down ruzzian UAVs.
UA Responders - a foundation with which we collaborate a lot for DevOps Days Ukraine. It raises funds for the rehabilitation of Ukrainian veterans.
Time Sensitive
Python Courses on Humble Bundle. Available for 2 more days!
Cloud Certification courses and practice exams. Mostly AI-related. Just 1 more day to grab!
A book bundle about LLMs and generative AI. 8 more days to get it!
Digest
Staff archetypes can be anti-patterns - a blog post by Alex Ewerlöf on how focusing on just a single staff engineer archetype can backfire.
Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users - a story about how OpenAI scales their Postgres databases. Although, it seems like they are slowly migrating to Azure Cosmos DB from Postgres.
AI Isn’t Replacing SREs. It’s Deskilling Them - a story about why AI is bad for you.
My (hypothetical) SRECon26 keynote - a story about why AI is good for you.
4 ways to use Argo CD and Terraform together - an article on some ways of passing values between Terraform and Argo CD.
Apparently, Amazon now mandates senior engineer review for AI-generated code. A discussion on Hacker News.
Making Cloudflare Tunnels Work with Mobile Apps Using mTLS (VPN Alternative) - an article of a colleague of mine on how to use Cloudflare Tunnels to secure your self-hosted things.
Measure What Matters by John Doerr: Summary & Notes - a short summary and notes about a book about OKRs.
How to Help AI Write Better Tests - a short article from a former colleague of mine with some practical tips on how to generate better unit tests with AI.
That’s all for today! See you in a couple of weeks!
