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Digest
20× the CI traffic without getting slower: How we rebuilt Git serving at Datadog - a story from Datadog about how they rewrote an internal component to speed up their Git operations.
State of AI Engineering - a report from Datadog.
Handling data migrations without anyone noticing - a guide from a colleague of mine on how to handle data migrations that can take several days.
PwnEscape: Guest-to-Host KVM Escape (CVE-2026-99999) - a description of Linux’s TCP stack vulnerability that you’re probably pathing right now.
Connection pooling. A long journey. - another story from another colleague of mine. This time it’s about connection pooling for Postgres in AWS.
The state of Developer Experience in 2026 - a report from Atlassian.
Why Clay Has an AI Writing Policy - a writing policy for AI and its origins. More companies should have something like that in my opinion.
Terraform Drift Is Now a Native GitHub Security Alert - a new GitHub Action for the
tfdriftCLI.The state of the tech industry in 2026 - LDX3 New York - (video) - a talk by Gergely Orosz from The Pragmatic Engineer on the state of the industry. This talk is skewed towards AI-centered companies, though. The comments are interesting as well.
The Agentic Software Factory is the Wrong Metaphor - a nice brain teaser on how we can reason about the assistance from AI in our day-to-day work and how can apply it to its true potential.
When a Routine Argo CD Upgrade Slowed Everything Down - a story about a subtle bug in ArgoCD that only manifested itself when reconciling multiple applications. This is also a nice deep dive into some Kubernetes’
client-gocapabilities.Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them. - tl;dr because of remote attestation. For more details, read the article. It’s a nice technical primer about passkeys.
That’s all folks! This digest is long because I basically skipped a whole month. I have an excuse, though. I was on vacation :)
