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Charity
A friend of mine continues a fundraiser for a pickup truck for Zaporizhzhia direction. Currently, about a half of the goal is reached. You can donate on this Monobank jar: https://send.monobank.ua/jar/8Mjotj4Uei
Another friend of mine who is currently in AFU raises funds for miscellaneous needs of his new unit. You can donate on this jar: https://send.monobank.ua/jar/4SB2PtGPzV
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Digest
I Built an AI Terraform Plan Reviewer and Hit Five Access Gates Getting There - AI-powered reviews are genuinely useful, because AI is patient enough to pick some small nits. This article take is a step further and describes how to make AI review not just the changes themselves, but an actual plan - the most important part of a Terraform PR.
What SREs Should Automate — and Never Automate — with AI - continuing the topic of AI, this article elaborates on what it makes sense to automate with AI and what doesn’t.
Why Distributed Databases Fail at Coordination Boundaries - an article about the failure modes of distributed systems, and where to keep attention at.
Agentic coding is straining CI. Here’s how we scaled test impact analysis at Anthropic - Anthropic talks about how CI becomes a bottleneck in the age of agentic coding.
Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify - Shopify tells a story of how they migrated their mobile apps from React Native to the native code with help of AI.
Shopify CEO says employees’ ‘slop grenades’ are making more work for everyone else - as a counterweight to the previous article, Shopify CEO describes the dark side of AI usage: slopification of communication inside the company. I notice it a lot, unfortunately, not sure about you.
This is all for today! See you in the next chapter!
