GitHub has been down a lot lately. During one of those episodes, I had the idea of asking my agent to use our new backend suite (still in beta) to build a working Git host. This is genuinely outside of my comfort zone as I had no prior…
A new default three-day cooldown delays version update pull requests so maintainers and security researchers can address findings in a release before it gets into your code. The post The case for a cooldown: Why Dependabot now waits before…
Giving an external team access to your PostgreSQL database is one of those decisions that deserves a little thought. The easiest option is to hand over a superuser account, but it’s rarely the right one. A better approach is to create a…

Expedia Group has introduced STAR, an internal AI-assisted observability platform that helps engineers investigate production incidents using service telemetry and LLMs. Built with FastAPI, Datadog, Celery, Redis, and Langfuse, STAR…