CatOps Digest 2026-08-07
A new issue of my irregular newsletter...
Charity
We continue helping DOU with their big fundraiser for the 2nd separate corps of the National Guard of Ukraine «Хартія». You can donate on this Monobank jar (international transfers are available).
https://send.monobank.ua/jar/26mrQPQ3PZ
Time Sensitive
Software Architecture book bundle by Apress - 4 more days to grab!
Python, Rust, and Data book bundle by O’Reilly - 10 days to grab!
Also, this Sunday I will participate in a live discussion about AI in DevOps-ish field organized by DOU. It will be live on YouTube in Ukrainian and take place at 11:00 UTC (14:00 Kyiv / 13:00 Berlin).
Digest
Multi-Agent System Reliability - an article by Alex Ewerlöf rather not on the reliability of the agents themselves, but the ways of how to ensure that the output is reliable.
Rewriting Bun in Rust - perhaps the first big project (or the first I’ve heard of) that was completely rewritten in a different language using LLMs.
Software Architecture Books - a list with engineering books worth reading.
You Can’t Fake Belonging - an article by Mike Fisher on an important dysfunction of a team.
Making 768 servers look like 1 - an article about DB sharding by Planetscale. It’s a high-level overview, though.
15 principles for managing up - a reminder that communication skills are important.
Security incident disclosure — July 2026 - a disclosure of a security incident at Hugging Face caused by an LLM.
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident - a postmortem for the aforementioned incident by Hugging Face.
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation - a postmortem for aforementioned incident by OpenAI.
Reproducing split brain on CloudNativePG - a great example of chaos testing in action to understand, how CloudNativePG handles network partitioning.
Demystifying evals for AI agents - how test your agents by Anthropic.
Karpenter’s consolidation behaviour is counter-intuitive - a deep dive into Karpenter’s reconciliation behavior. A complimentary discussion on Reddit.
It’s been a month since the last issue. I’ll try to do better, but this is something I promise every time. On the bright side, I hope I don’t annoy you with too many emails :)