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Why “At-Least-Once” Is a Lie: Lessons from Java Event Systems at Global Scale (Wed, 18 Feb 2026)
At-least-once delivery is treated like a safety net in Java event systems. Nothing gets lost. Retries handle failures. Duplicates are “a consumer problem.” It sounds practical, even mature. That assumption doesn’t survive production.
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Functional Scaffolding for LLM Solutions (Wed, 18 Feb 2026)
Slingshot Your Way to Secure, Efficient AI Solutions I have always been fascinated by the elliptical trail maneuvers of gravity-assisted slingshots in rocketry. Somehow, it feels comparable to how we reach our goals in the AI solutions world — moving from a starting point to a target destination. A gravitational slingshot leverages every planet in its path — using each body’s gravity to gain momentum (saving fuel in the process) — until the spacecraft is flung toward its destination. The starting point is analogous to our problem statement, and the destination is the target state we wish to achieve with AI agents. The smarter the agents, the greater the efficiency, the less compute “fuel” burned, and the faster we reach the final solution.
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When Kubernetes Forgets: The 90-Second Evidence Gap (Wed, 18 Feb 2026)
The Contradiction At 3:47 AM, your monitoring dashboard shows a healthy Kubernetes cluster — 99.97% availability. Your customers report a complete outage. Ninety seconds later, the pod has self-healed. Metrics look normal. The restart counter reads “1.” But why it restarted — what actually happened — has vanished. This isn’t a tooling failure. The system simply recovered faster than a human could observe.
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Diffs Are Dead. Why You Need Scalable Previews. (Tue, 17 Feb 2026)
The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is going through a massive shift as coding agents become increasingly ubiquitous in the industry. While this has very visible impacts that have been widely documented, it also results in more subtle changes that are less obvious. I noticed one of those changes recently: code review has all but died without us noticing. I have seen this happen on my own engineering team. Senior engineers known for meticulous review are approving pull requests (PRs) within minutes.
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DevOps Cafe Podcast

DevOps Cafe Ep 79 - Guests: Joseph Jacks and Ben Kehoe (Mon, 13 Aug 2018)
Triggered by Google Next 2018, John and Damon chat with Joseph Jacks (stealth startup) and Ben Kehoe (iRobot) about their public disagreements — and agreements — about Kubernetes and Serverless. 
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DevOps Cafe Ep 78 - Guest: J. Paul Reed (Mon, 23 Jul 2018)
John and Damon chat with J.Paul Reed (Release Engineering Approaches) about the field of Systems Safety and Human Factors that studies why accidents happen and how to minimize the occurrence and impact. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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DevOps Cafe Ep. 77 - Damon interviews John (Wed, 20 Jun 2018)
A new season of DevOps Cafe is here. The topic of this episode is "DevSecOps." Damon interviews John about what this term means, why it matters now, and the overall state of security.  Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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