Part of our Ruby for DevOps series. Builds watchdog.rb, a dependency-free Ruby script that monitors pidfile and systemd-managed processes on Linux, restarts anything that has died, and enforces a persistent restart-rate limit so it never becomes a crash-loop generator.

Part of our Ruby for DevOps series. Builds registry_audit.rb, a Ruby tool that audits Windows registry values against a YAML baseline, reports drift/missing values, and safely repairs them with a guarded backup-before-write workflow.

Part of our Ruby for DevOps series. Builds fleet_run.rb, a Ruby tool that runs one shell command across many servers over SSH in parallel, with per-host retries on connection errors, a thread pool, and a clean OK/FAIL report per host.

Manual IaC reviews miss the config drift that causes outages. Here's how AI agents catch infrastructure drift automatically, before it breaks prod.

This week's AI news roundup: OpenAI pauses a sandbox-escaping model, Anthropic's $1.5B settlement, Kimi K3 sellout, and Azure's AMD bet.

01 · PROBLEM02 · BACKUP03 · VERIFY04 · AUDIT05 · ROLLBACK06 · STATS07 · NEXT the problem One typo can […]

01 · PROBLEM02 · WMI03 · SPLIT04 · TERMINAL05 · THRESHOLD06 · STATS07 · NEXT the problem "Are we patched?" […]

01 · PROBLEM02 · SAMPLE03 · NORMALIZE04 · TERMINAL05 · WHY06 · STATS07 · NEXT the problem No Prometheus. Just […]

01 · PROBLEM02 · DATA03 · CODE04 · TERMINAL05 · ANOMALY06 · STATS07 · NEXT the problem Slow endpoints. Bad […]

Long DevOps tasks span days, not minutes. Here's how automated long-running task handoffs keep AI agents from losing context between sessions.

This week's AI news roundup: Google ships three new Gemini models, the Fed flags Anthropic's Mythos AI, record AI lobbying spend, and a 16-year Linux bug.

Cursor's Agent mode, Plan Mode, Background Agents, and Bugbot for DevOps and security teams: setup, workflows, safety gotchas, and cost tips.