CatOps Digest 2026-07-11
It's been a while since the last digest...
Charity
All these weeks we’ve been supporting a fundraiser started by our friends at DOU.ua. It has an ambitious goal of raising 10 Mil UAH for the 2nd separate corps of the National Guard of Ukraine “Хартія”.
You can donate directly on this Monobank Jar. It accepts international transactions as well
https://send.monobank.ua/jar/26mrQPQ3PZ
Time Sensitive
AI Foundations and Applications books bundle by Manning on Humble Bundle. Active for 12 more days as of today.
Linux books bundle by O’Reilly. Active for 18 more days as of today.
Digest
We had something like an AI week on CatOps, so the first articles in this digest are all united under this topic. If you want to get these as soon as I manage to read them, you can subscribe to CatOps on Telegram!
AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less - an article by Charity Majors about what the adoption of AI means for technical teams.
Harness engineering for coding agent users - an article about building harnesses and types of harnesses for AI agents.
AI in SRE: What’s Actually Coming in 2026 - about the role of AI in the incident response.
The Generative AI Policy Landscape in Open Source - a study of AI policies in Open Source by RedMonk.
Not all index scans are equal: How we cut query latency by over 99% - a tale of targeted DB indices by Datadog.
System Design: Building a world-class symbolicator - a story how software design can “beat” raw language performance.
Kubernetes default limits I keep forgetting - Kubernetes defaults and hard limits in one place.
AI Gateway, API Gateway, Gateway API, and friends: A Map Through the Gateway Confusion - types of Kubernetes gateways explained.
The four horsemen behind thousands of Postgres outages - some PostgreSQL internals, and a bit of promotion for
pgrust(Postgres-compatible DB written in Rust).Upgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacks - EKS supports rollbacks now.
How we found a bug in the hyper HTTP library - a detective story from Cloudflare.
Flux turns 10! - 🎂🎉
That’s all for this time, folks! If you’re in Warsaw next weekend for the “WawTech Summer” meetup, let’s catch up! This is not an ad, I will be there, and I would genuinely like to meet new people.
