mariadb vs mysql

We run both of these, seemingly at random depending on who set each one up for each application. We need to standardize and pick one. Which do you run and why?

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Analysing the cloudflare outage!

I made a quick small video explaining the cloudflare outage. I went through the RCA and added some bits to it. I've been part of a similar global outage at scale where a buggy code deployed on the edge servers brought the entire service down for hours.

It's really really tough to recover from issues where your edge servers get impacted with high CPU or Memory utilisation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObAn4hQc370

Go through the video and let me know if you found it useful.


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Kinda niche question, but anyone have a second phone for on-call/work? What plan/provider struck a good balance for your needs?

Hey y'all, we get a phone credit (laughably small) and were recently told certain company-related apps would start to require MDM on devices they're installed on, meaning the company could wipe the devices at their discretion like if the device is lost/stolen.

I'm thinking I'd rather just have a work phone, and I do have a spare phone lying around so toying with the idea.

Anyone doing this? I imagine a plan with tethering is a good idea, but obviously everyone's job/on-call is a bit different. Wondering if any of y'all found something that struck a good cost balance.

Thanks in advance!

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HTTP/2 Desync: Request Smuggling's Stealthy Evolution

https://instatunnel.my/blog/http2-desync-request-smugglings-stealthy-evolution

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DevOpsProjects Idea.

I have to create Devops Project.. Can someone give me some project idea. So i can make Project in Devops Field. I learnt Pyhon, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Github Action and some basic knowledge of AWS. If anyone have any idea about my these skills so please tell me which type of projects i will create for my resume .

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NocturneNotes — Secure Rust + GTK4 note‑taking with AES‑256‑GCM

I’ve built NocturneNotes, a secure note‑taking app written in Rust with GTK4.

🔐 Features:

AES‑256‑GCM encryption for all notes

Argon2 password‑based key derivation

Clean GTK4 interface

Reproducible Debian packaging for easy install

It’s designed for all you devs who want a privacy‑first notebook without the bloat.

Repo: https://github.com/globalcve/NocturneNotes

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I don’t mind people in devops not knowing how to code. I do mind people in devops who do not have a curious mind.

I don’t think this is solely a devops thing. I think its a general “it operations” problem, in that I will often encounter at least 1 or more people on a team who do not even know how to create a bash noscript, nor do they care to learn how. Its mind-boggling to me that in today’s day and age in IT there are still people who have zero curiosity when it comes to automation. Also, the amount of times I’ve been in a call sussing with people who have over 5 years of experience each in this industry a problem and I am somehow the only person who Googled, found a stackoverflow page and wrote up an automation solution is so fucking depressing. This is why AI is taking jobs. If you can’t think a layer of abstraction above “I click this thing and something happens”, you are going to be replaced by AI.

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Should we bother with the “cover letter” when applying?

I’m pretty sure no one ever reads this on the first filtration. Or perhaps ever. Because you want to assess a person by interview. Not by how much he boasts on himself.

Yes. I could say I have a “can do” attitude. And that because I work in a very small startup, and one employee got out for a few months because of child birth, I have become a devops and a backend coder. Developed working api’s and new models that don’t break the current code. Etc etc.
And many more example I think it’s too boastful to present??

It can also be used against me.

Like the FE guy was way too busy. So I had myself build a friggin angular without ever knowing what angular is with 2 tunnels ti simulate BE and FE until the endpoint worked to satisfaction locally.


So the employer can be - is this guy a devops or a coder what gives? But no. I’m a devops first ist. And for the company even more. So whatever it takes. If it’s needed. If I’m in a big corporation, guessing I would never ever do that.

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Anyone tried Seiri.app for real-time webhook monitoring?

Hey folks,

I just found **Seiri.app**, a tool that monitors webhooks in real time and alerts you instantly if something fails. Normally I just check logs manually, but this seems like a huge timesaver.

Has anyone used it? Does it actually catch failures reliably, or is it just hype? Would love to hear real experiences!

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Beginner trying to understand and possibly get into devops

Hi there, I'm sure this sub gets questions like this all the time but I'm coming from a slightly different position/ background than any other recent posts I've seen.

I've been in game development for 5 years now, I have a degree in it and have spent the last year trying to find a job to no avail

I enjoy coding and creativity, I know C# pretty well, web development, and a handful of disconnected programming languages semi okay (SQL, Java, c++, etc)

What is devops, what does the job really entail and where does one start when learning about it. I have googled and looked around but I feel like I'm missing something major.
And how can I get into the field?

Thanks in advance

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Observability costs are higher than infra - and everyone still talking about it

My feeds are full of posts about observability lately.

In some cases, teams spend more on observability than on the infra it monitors - and it still:

- requires a complex setup
- doesn’t deliver immediate ROI
- makes sense mostly for already-mature teams

So when should teams actually invest?

Is there a realistic point where observability pays off early, or is it only worth it once processes and maturity are already in place?

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Are there established, open-source Kubernetes sandbox environments that are pre-configured to implement specific DevOps design patterns and are easily extensible for experimenting with and integrating new or unfamiliar technologies?

I want to try out various things on my local WSL2 environment, so I was looking for suggestions, so I can save some time.

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Traefik bug squashed

Anyone else been getting bugged out by Traefik?
Just spent a week having a horrible time getting sites online.
Epic fails.
Used BACKTICK PLACEHOLDER.
sed after deployed.
All set.

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CICD System with Templating

The noscript says it all, I'm looking for a CICD system which will let a platforms team create modules with sane inputs and behavior for development teams to then freely use. I see a lot of great tools out there like Woodpecker, Semaphore and Gitness but none seem to support such functionality aside of GitlabCI and Jenkins. Is there possibly a third potential gem out there that I'm not aware of? Later Drone versions let you do that with Starlark (a python dialect) but the software is long discontinued. Thank you in advance for your input.

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Spark UI is painful for debugging anyone else feel this

I love Spark, but the Web UI drives me crazy. Debugging failing jobs or figuring out why certain stages are slow takes forever. The UI shows logs and stages, but you cannot easily connect a stage failure to the exact task or code that caused it. You end up hunting through logs for minutes while the job keeps running.

It would be amazing to have a UI that highlights failing tasks, shows which stage is the bottleneck, and lets you jump straight from an alert to the exact part of the plan or code. Something like stage-level metrics combined with error pointers.

Right now I just stare at the UI spinning and think there has to be a better way. I want to see what others do when they get stuck in this mess, or even just commiserate with someone who has fought the same battle.


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Need advice on implementing CI/CD

Hey, I work at a SaaS company with many teams. I joined recently and noticed that there is no CI/CD process in place. I decided to automate the workflow, but I learned that the QA team is doing something similar to CI/CD, although not using Jenkins. We also have our own build tool based on Ant, as well as our own deployment tool. We typically trigger only 3–4 builds per day. I want to implement a proper CI/CD pipeline here. QA testing happens after the build is deployed to the test servers, and we also have a code check process that enforces certain company-specific rules.
How can I implement CI/CD in this environment? Any ideas?

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Tako AI v1.5 - Your Okta AI sidekick

We just released **Tako AI v1.5** – an open-source agent for managing Okta environments that actually writes, tests, and fixes its own code.

**How it works:**

* Reads Okta API docs + your DB schema before writing any code
* Generates Python/SQL noscripts and runs them in a secure sandbox
* If it hits an error, it reads the stack trace and rewrites the code automatically

**Key features:**

* Runs on fast, cheap models (Gemini Flash, Haiku) without sacrificing accuracy
* Self-correction loop catches hallucinations
* Read-only by default, fully sandboxed, zero cloud dependencies
* Switches intelligently between local DB queries and live API calls

It's like having a junior engineer who reads the docs, tests their code, and fixes their own bugs—except it takes milliseconds instead of hours.

**GitHub:** [**https://github.com/fctr-id/okta-ai-agent**](https://github.com/fctr-id/okta-ai-agent)
**Blog:** [**https://iamse.blog/2025/11/23/tako-ai-v1-5-your-new-okta-ai-sidekick/**](https://iamse.blog/2025/11/23/tako-ai-v1-5-your-new-okta-ai-sidekick/)

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or self-healing logic.

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Specs for home build server

I would like to get some used machines for a build server to host my side projects at home. It will run git and build docker images using something like TeamCity. Would an i3 12100 with 8GB ram be fine or should I get an i5? What about those N100 mini PC's or used SFF machines with smth like a 8th gen Intel CPU?

I was also thinking of a way to run multiple agents so that I can run builds in parallel.

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serverless vs server for mobile app discussion

context: not-startup company (so they have funds) wants POS-type mobile app with some offline functionality. handles daily business operations so cross-module logic mostly (inventory, checkout, etc.).

proposed solution: aws lambda functions

so, i am very new to the cloud (admittedly, just through this specific job, cloud really isn't my main interest) and i am more of a seasoned/capable app developer/software engr (whatever you wanna call it). i am familiar with AWS services & their use cases. but for this specific context, as a dev, i think an ec2 server or maybe even ECS + fargate would work better than individual lambda functions like, especially with cross-module logic won't that require like multiple of them talking to each other (don't get me started on the debugging)... the strong point i see is the unpredictable workload (what if the company's clients don't use said mobile app, so u pay for unnecessary idle server time) and the cost. (but assuming, this actually serves a problem of the company's clients i don't see why they won't use it)

but basically i go server here because, well, i just like servers more, i guess. in terms of development, debugging, and QA, i just think using a server is cleaner for this scenario - basically managing the backend as a whole.

i'm trying to be as open as possible. so if there is like a strong point in terms of management, development, debugging, workflow, cost & stuff, or anything that can convince a developer about lambda / serverless, please do share. because i'm, having a hard time accepting it. i can adapt, no doubt, but i feel like i need more convincing to gaslight myself for me to actually go "ah, i see why serverless is useful for this specific scenario..."

i've talked to chatgpt (YEAH AI) about this but i don't fully trust it because,,, it's AI. and the conversation i had with my co-worker is not very convincing for me. so maybe i guess i'm just searching for other seasoned developers who have used cloud as well to like share your thoughts.

please do correct me if i'm wrong, just don't be mean. (this is my first post, so please delete if i violate any of the rules - i mean that's exactly what's going to happen lol)

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Has anyone actually replaced Docker with WASM or other ‘next‑gen’ runtimes in production yet? Worth it or pure hype?

How many of you have pushed beyond experiments and are actually running WebAssembly or other ‘next‑gen’ runtimes in prod alongside or instead of containers?

What did you gain or regret after a few real releases, especially around cold starts, tooling, and debugging?

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is generating Docker/Terraform/K8s configs still a huge pain for you?

I'm trying to confirm whether this is an actual problem or if I'm imagining it.

For anyone working with infrastructure:
When you need Docker Compose files, Kubernetes YAML, or Terraform configs, what’s the part that slows you down or annoys you the most?

A few things I’m curious about:
• Do you manually write these files every time?
• Do you reuse templates?
• Do you rely on AI, or does it make mistakes that cost you time?
• What’s the worst part of translating a simple denoscription into working config files?
• What would a perfect solution look like for you?

Not building anything yet. Just researching whether this pain point is common before I commit to making a tool. Any specifics from your experience would help a lot

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