Chapter 01: The day infrastructure started operating itself The pager screamed at 3:47 AM, a jagged, electronic intrusion that sliced through the silence of the bedroom. Marcus was awake before he was conscious. His hand reflexively snatched the phone from the nightstand, his thumb already swiping to acknowledge the alert. PagerDuty. Critical. Production. He sat up, the cold air hitting his skin, […]
Between June 1985 and January 1987, six patients received radiation doses between 40 and 200 times the prescribed therapeutic level from a machine that had been certified, reviewed, and considered an improvement over every model before it. At least three died from their injuries. The Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s Therac-25 reported no error each time. Operators, following training, pressed […]
A control verification framework for cloud security and DevSecOps engineering In 1985, AECL engineers removed the physical interlocks from the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine. The software was handling it. The hardware was redundant. Six patients were irradiated with doses up to 200 times the prescribed level. Three died. The machine reported no error each time. The engineers were not negligent. […]
Is AI the savior of DevSecOps or the fastest path to total chaos? This week, the community erupted over AI’s reckless sprint into pipelines while supply chains bleed from avoidable hacks. Forget the polished trends – let’s rip the Band-Aid off: most teams are sleepwalking into disaster, and it’s time to call out the bullshit. AI Agents: Genius or Glorified […]
Azure Cloud Shell is one of those tools that looks small until you actually use it. Then it starts acting like a spare laptop living inside your browser. For DevOps work, that matters. For locked-down Windows laptops, it matters even more. What it is Cloud Shell gives you a browser-based Bash or PowerShell session tied to your Azure identity. You […]
Let me paint you a picture that will be painfully familiar. It’s 8:47 AM. You’ve just inherited a brand-new corporate Windows laptop, still warm from the imaging oven. You open a terminal and try to install Terraform. Blocked. You try WSL. Blocked. Docker Desktop? Blocked. You consider asking the service desk for admin rights and then remember you’ve been down […]
🚨 Security Alert • April 2026 Your Security Scanner Is Now an Attack Vector The European Commission AWS Breach: Full Timeline, Attack Chain, and 12-Step Hardening Checklist By Bola Ogunlana April 2026 ⏱ 12 min read 🏷 DevSecOps • Cloud Security • Supply Chain 340GB Data Stolen 71 EU Institutions Hit 5 Days to Detect 1 API Key. That's All. […]
Platform Engineering · AI Operations · AWS Your Next On-Call Engineer Never Sleeps. It Also Never Misses the Root Cause. AWS DevOps Agent hit General Availability on 31 March 2026. The preview data is striking: 75% lower MTTR, 94% root cause accuracy, resolution times compressed from hours to minutes. Here is what every platform engineer and SRE leader needs to […]
On March 31, Anthropic shipped a source map file to npm. Not a minor config snippet. Not a stale API key. 512,000 lines of TypeScript. 1,900 files. 44 hidden feature flags. Their entire agentic harness. The crown jewels of Claude Code. Reconstructed and forked 82,000+ times before lunch. Anthropic scrambled. They pulled the npm package. Filed DMCA takedowns against GitHub […]
They told me, in the beginning, that the system was designed to be resilient. What they did not tell me, what no one ever tells you until you have lived through it, is that resilience has a temperament. It is not gentle. It does not negotiate. It endures by refusing to care whether you understand it or not. I first […]