Ship It Weekly - DevOps, SRE, Platform and Cloud Engineering News
Ship It Weekly is a short, practical recap of what actually matters in DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering. Each episode, your host Brian Teller walks through the latest outages, releases, tools, and incident writeups, then translates them into “here’s what this means for your systems” instead of just reading headlines. Expect a couple of main stories with context, a quick hit of tools or releases worth bookmarking, and the occasional segment on on-call, burnout, or team culture. This isn’t a certification prep show or a lab walkthrough. It’s aimed at people who are already working in the space and want to stay sharp without scrolling status pages, cloud updates, and blogs all week. You’ll hear about things like cloud provider incidents, Kubernetes and platform trends, Terraform and infrastructure changes, and real postmortems that are actually worth your time. Most episodes are 15–30 minutes, so you can catch up on the way to work or between meetings. Every now and then there will be a “special” focused on a big outage or a specific theme, but the default format is simple: what happened, why it matters, and what you might want to do about it in your own environment. If you’re the person people DM when something is broken in prod, or you’re building the cloud and platform everyone else ships on top of, Ship It Weekly is meant to be in your rotation.
Episodes
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.
In this Ship It Conversations episode, I talk with Ned Bellavance of Ned in the Cloud about DevOps beyond the buzzwords, platform engineering, infrastructure as code, AI, and why fundamentals still matter even as the tools change.
Ned is the founder of Ned in the Cloud and host of the Day 2 DevOps podcast, with more than 20 years in IT acros...
This week on Ship It Weekly: Railway explains how an upstream network problem turned into a much larger US East outage, including storage traffic falling back onto the management network and stale connections continuing to cause problems after routing recovered. Stripe shares how graph search and state machines helped cut database pager volume by about 30 percent. Kata Containers patches a critical guest-to-host escape, and DynamoD...
This week on Ship It Weekly: AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI took unsanctioned actions on the real internet during UK government cyber testing, including an attempt to push malicious code into a real GitHub project. Kubernetes 1.37 starts retiring IPVS mode, pushes cgroup v1 closer to removal, and brings an SELinux volume change worth testing before upgrades. AWS Transit Gateway gets policy-based routing, and IAM Identity Cente...
This week on Ship It Weekly: Telstra’s mobile network jumped back to 2006 after a timing device restarted with the wrong date, disrupting calls, data sessions, and hundreds of emergency calls.
DoorDash explains how Entity Cache, built with Envoy and Valkey, handles more than 1.5 million requests per second and uses stale-data policies, invalidation, and fallback behavior as a reliability layer.
The latest MCP release candidate ...
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.
In this Ship It Conversations episode, I talk with Jay Lark of Hookbridge about webhook reliability, retries, idempotency, replay, security, local development, and what happens when a simple HTTP POST becomes production infrastructure.
Jay is a Principal DevOps Engineer and the founder of Hookbridge, a service focused on making webhook deliv...
This week on Ship It Weekly: AWS CloudFormation Express mode promises faster infrastructure feedback by reporting deployments complete before extended resource stabilization finishes. Apache Spark 4.2 adds native vector operations and nearest-neighbor joins, giving some teams a way to keep AI data workloads closer to the platforms they already run.
GitLab’s latest research says AI is helping developers generate and commit code...
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.
In this Ship It Conversations episode, I talk with Mat Ryer of Grafana Labs about AI observability, production agents, evals, telemetry cost, guardrails, and what changes once AI moves beyond demos and into systems teams actually depend on.
Mat is Senior Director of AI at Grafana Labs, where he focuses on how AI fits into observability and p...
This week on Ship It Weekly: Datadog tracked coordinated GitHub API enumeration, xAI’s Grok Build CLI reportedly uploaded repo data without redaction, AWS Security Hub added Network Scanning and exposure impact analysis, and Microsoft says AI-powered vulnerability discovery is changing patch pressure.
The theme: visibility is not ownership. A GitHub API map does not revoke a token. An exposure finding does not close a port. A ...
This week on Ship It Weekly: Amazon EKS added Kubernetes version rollbacks, Novee Security published Cordyceps research on GitHub Actions supply chain risk, Tenet Security showed how fake telemetry can hijack AI coding agents, and Amazon CloudWatch added alarms directly from log queries.
The theme: safety nets are getting better, but the blast radius is getting wider. Rollback buttons, log alarms, zone-aware routing, secret scanning...
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.
In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Evan Phoenix of Miren about why deployment is still painful, what teams keep getting wrong when they try to simplify it, and why small teams may need better defaults more than more platform knobs.
Evan is the CEO of Miren. He previously worked on Terraform Enterprise and Waypoint at HashiCo...
This week on Ship It Weekly: Amazon Q Developer and the AWS language servers had a pair of trust-boundary CVEs, JFrog found hijacked npm and Go packages using hidden VS Code tasks to run malware when a workspace opens, AWS WAF had HTTP/2 request-body inspection issues, and AWS introduced Lambda MicroVMs for running user-generated and AI-generated code in isolated sandboxes.
The bigger theme: execution is the boundary now. The repo, ...
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.
In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Kat Traxler of Vectra AI about AI security, the zero-day clock, IAM, cloud risk, AI-assisted bug hunting, and why the scariest future security problems may still start with the boring fundamentals teams already struggle with today.
Kat is a Principal Security Researcher at Vectra AI focused...
This week on Ship It Weekly: containerd disclosed a batch of CRI plugin vulnerabilities, Datadog tested PostgreSQL high availability on Kubernetes and found that failover is not useful if it cannot happen safely, AWS DevOps Agent and Datadog MCP Server moved AI incident response closer to real production workflows, and Amazon EKS added customer-routed control-plane egress.
The bigger theme: the control plane keeps getting wider. Run...
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.
In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Joel DeStefano from Guardsquare about mobile app security, why it is different from backend and cloud security, and why scanning alone is not enough once an app is shipped into the real world.
We talk about the shift in trust model that happens with mobile apps. In backend and cloud systems...
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about default trust getting punished. Brian covers Oracle’s emergency PeopleSoft advisory for CVE-2026-35273, npm v12 changing install-script defaults, GitHub Agentic Workflows moving away from long-lived personal access tokens, and Anthropic disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a U.S. export-control directive. The common thread: legacy ERP systems, package installs, CI/CD agents, and AI mode...
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.
In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Francois Richard, Engineering Director at Meta, about reliability at scale, how AI is changing production risk, what teams actually learn from incidents, and why recovery practice matters just as much as prevention.
We talk about the proactive and reactive sides of reliability, why SLOs sho...
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about the hidden glue holding production together.
Brian covers Coinbase’s May 7 outage postmortem, where an AWS us-east-1 cooling failure exposed the difference between being “multi-AZ” on paper and actually being able to recover when stateful, low-latency systems are tied to a failed zone.
Then he looks at Meta’s AI-assisted Instagram support issue and why account recovery i...
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about automation’s hidden boundaries. Brian covers Kiro CLI CVE-2026-9255, where piped stdin could act like user approval, Amazon Braket SDK CVE-2026-9291 and the very normal Python pickle risk hiding inside quantum job results, AWS Organizations finally emitting CloudTrail events when accounts join or leave an org, and KEDA updates that remind us autoscaling upgrades are production behavior ...
This episode of Ship It Weekly is about trusted tools becoming production dependencies. Brian covers a rough GitHub supply chain week, including the compromised Nx Console VS Code extension tied to exposed GitHub internal repositories and the Megalodon campaign abusing GitHub Actions workflows across thousands of public repos.
The bigger thread this week is that the tools around production are increasingly part of production. Brian ...
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.
In this Ship It: Conversations episode, I talk with Jake Warner, founder and CEO of Cycle.io, about private cloud, bare metal, Kubernetes fatigue, and why some teams are rethinking how much infrastructure complexity they actually want to carry.
We talk about why bare metal and private cloud are getting interesting again, especially around co...
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