TLDR DevOps 2025-12-08
Cloudflare Outage ☁️, Software Estimates 📏, React Server Vulnerability 🥷
Build multi-step applications and AI workflows with AWS Lambda durable functions (3 minute read)
AWS Lambda durable functions let developers write sequential, long-running workflows with automatic checkpoints, retries, and year-long waits without paying for idle compute. Using an open source SDK, they simplify state management for complex processes like approvals while preserving the standard Lambda programming model.
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 (6 minute read)
Cloudflare experienced a 25-minute network outage on December 5 that impacted approximately 28% of its HTTP traffic. It was caused by a configuration change designed to disable a WAF testing tool. This action inadvertently exposed a long-undetected bug in its FL1 proxy's rules module, leading to HTTP 500 errors. This marks the company's second major incident in weeks.
Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility (5 minute read)
AWS Lambda Managed Instances let Lambda functions run on EC2 with full serverless simplicity while enabling specialized hardware, multiconcurrency, and EC2 pricing benefits. The feature reduces costs, removes infrastructure management, supports major runtimes, and allows easy migration for thread-safe workloads.
Estimates – a necessary evil? (11 minute read)
Estimates are essential for product owners to prioritize and plan releases, but developers dislike them because they're inherently uncertain and often get misused as commitments or deadlines. The real problem isn't estimating itself — it's the unrealistic expectations and pressure created when tentative estimates are treated as promises.
Send OpenTelemetry traces and logs from Cloudflare Workers to Grafana Cloud (6 minute read)
Cloudflare Workers recently gained support for exporting OpenTelemetry logs and traces directly to Grafana Cloud. This new integration offers users pre-built dashboards to visualize critical metrics, including request counts, latency, and geographic data, without requiring agent installation.
Complimentary report for Forrester Wave DevOps Platforms, Q2 2025 (Sponsor)
Discover why Atlassian received 5/5 ratings across Forrester's Vision, Innovation, and Roadmap criteria. Hint: it's not simply great tooling. With Atlassian, Dev, business, and IT teams are empowered to respond to change on-the-fly, resolving incidents faster while managing risk.
Read the reportdata-peek (GitHub Repo)
data-peek is a minimal and fast SQL client desktop application that features AI-powered querying. It allows developers to quickly access data without bloat. data-peek supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.
VERT (GitHub Repo)
VERT is a new open-source file conversion utility that performs fully local conversions on-device using WebAssembly. It distinguishes itself from cloud-based alternatives by prioritizing user privacy.
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