Tag: CI/CD

Web Development Aug 7, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Clicking Through AWS Console: Why I Finally Automated My RAG Pipeline

I spent three weeks last year building a "Chat with PDF" prototype. Manually. Through the AWS Console. Click by click, creating S3 buckets, configuring OpenSearch Serverless, wiring up Bedrock Knowledge Bases, the whole circus. It worked fine for a proof of concept, but then my ma...

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AWS LLM

Tech News Aug 5, 2026 • 5 min read

The DevOps Role Nobody Really Agrees On (And Why That's Actually The Point)

I spent three years thinking I understood what a DevOps engineer was. Then I hired one, and realized I had no idea what to actually ask them to do.

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Startups Kubernetes

DevOps & Cloud Aug 2, 2026 • 4 min read

When Your Docker Image Bloats from 900MB to... Wait, How Did We Get Here?

I was debugging a deployment issue at 2 AM last week when I realized our production Docker image had somehow ballooned to nearly a gigabyte. A gigabyte. For a Node.js API that should've been maybe 150MB lean. That's when I came across this article about image size optimization, a...

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Python Kubernetes

Career & Growth Aug 1, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Gaming Your GitHub Contribution Graph, But Keep the Automation

I spent a solid two hours last week staring at my GitHub profile, counting the green squares. Not because I'm vain (okay, maybe a little), but because I was genuinely wondering: is this what recruiters actually see first? The answer was humbling, they don't. They see your actual p...

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Python JavaScript

DevOps & Cloud Jul 31, 2026 • 4 min read

hermes-memory-installer: Memory Sidecar v3.5.1

Memory Sidecar v3.5.1 is an operational hardening release for the public agent‑agnostic memory layer. If you already use the sidecar pattern to give your AI agents robust, persistent memory without co...

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AI Agents CI/CD

DevOps & Cloud Jul 26, 2026 • 6 min read

How We Solved Agent Auth Without a Single PAT

A TOFU-based authorization model for headless AI agents By Mohamed Sherif If you’ve built an AI agent recently, you’ve probably run into the same problem. The first integration is easy. Your agent...

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AWS Kubernetes

Web Development Jul 22, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Installing Postgres Locally, Docker Changed How I Setup Development

I spent three years installing and reinstalling PostgreSQL directly on my machine. Each project had its own version pinned somewhere in a README I'd eventually lose. One day I'd upgrade locally for Project A, break Project B's migration scripts, then spend two hours figuring out...

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Git CI/CD

Programming Jul 21, 2026 • 4 min read

The Real Problem with AI Coding Tools (It's Not What You Think)

Three months ago, I was working with Cursor on a fresh project. The AI was genuinely impressive, it understood my codebase, suggested clean solutions, and saved me hours. By week two, I was frustrated enough to close the IDE and just write the code myself.

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Git CI/CD

AI & Machine Learning Jul 18, 2026 • 5 min read

I Shipped Code Controlled by Vibes and It Nearly Cost Us in Production

Last month, I watched an AI agent confidently refactor a critical authentication module because our skill file said "improve code quality wherever you see it." We didn't ask for that refactor. We didn't want it. The agent decided it was the *right thing to do* based on a loose in...

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AI Agents CI/CD

Programming Jul 15, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Treating Cloud Security Like Three Separate Problems (It Isn't)

I spent about two years thinking cloud security was three different tools I'd eventually have to buy. Then I realized I was already living in a world where my security gaps existed across all three at the same time, and no single tool was catching them all.

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AWS Kubernetes