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Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 13h

"8 platform engineering anti-patterns" by Bill Doerrfeld

www.infoworld.com/article/4064...

8 platform engineering anti-patterns

Golden paths gone gray? Avoid these common mistakes that sink platform engineering initiatives.

www.infoworld.com

Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 1d

"Krkn-AI: A feedback-driven approach to chaos engineering" by Rahul Shetty and Naga Ravi Chaitanya Elluri

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Krkn-AI: A feedback-driven approach to chaos engineering | Red Hat Developer

Krkn-AI automates AI-assisted, objective-driven chaos testing for Kubernetes. Discover how it addresses the challenges of reliability in modern systems

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Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 2d

"30.000 deployments per day? Here’s how we operate without losing our minds" by Juan José Orjuela

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30.000 deployments per day? Here’s how we operate without losing our minds

“How do you manage to perform 30.000 deployments a day and still operate normally?”

medium.com

Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 2d

Repeat after me: reliability should be defined from the point of view of your customers.

Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 2d

"Applying RBAC to databases on Kubernetes: Practical, real-world examples" by Edith Pucll

www.cncf.io/blog/2025/10...

Applying RBAC to databases on Kubernetes: Practical, real-world examples

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is one of the most important security features in any cloud native platform. It determines who can do what inside the Kubernetes Cluster, helping teams give the right…

www.cncf.io

Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 3d

As an engineer, be curious.

That doesn't mean you should change everything due to the most recent hype.

But it means you should be open to explore new things and evaluate them within your context.

Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 3d

Building Reliable and Resilient Workloads in Kubernetes at @ndcconferences.com Porto

Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 3d

Using AI should not be the outcome.

AI should be used to achieve outcomes.

Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 3d

"Day 2 infrastructure management with Terraform actions" by Mitchell Ross and Steven Weaver

www.hashicorp.com/pt/blog/day-...

Day 2 infrastructure management with Terraform actions

Your biggest risks come after deployment. Learn how Terraform actions can help standardize Day 2 workflows to effectively manage infrastructure over time.

www.hashicorp.com

Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 3d

Using AI should not be the outcome.

AI should be used to achieve outcomes.

Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 3d

"Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region"

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Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region

Learn

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Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 3d

"Don't let Claude delete your sessions logs" by Simon Wilson

simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/...

Don't let Claude Code delete your session logs

Claude Code stores full logs of your sessions as newline-delimited JSON in ~/.claude/projects/encoded-directory/*.jsonl on your machine. I currently have 379MB of these! Here's an example jsonl file…

simonwillison.net

Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 3d

A very important message from @guiferreira.me at @ndcconferences.com Porto: do more with less 👌

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Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 4d

Going to conferences and sharing knowledge with others is a major career boost.

And you don't even need to give a talk or workshop: just have interesting conversations with people. Talk about challenges, what could be solutions for those challenges and share experiences.

Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 4d

"Loading The Titanic Passenger Data Into PostgreSQL With DBeaver Part 2" by Dave Stokes

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Loading The Titanic Passenger Data Into PostgreSQL With DBeaver Part 2

In the last edition of this blog, the passenger list data from the HMS Titanic was loaded into a preliminary database. Now it is time to refine.

stokerpostgresql.blogspot.com

Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 4d

"Why Autonomous Infrastructure is the future: From intent to self-operating systems" by by Asif Awan

www.cncf.io/blog/2025/10...

Why Autonomous Infrastructure is the future: From intent to self-operating systems

Executive summary: We’re at an inflection point where AI-generated code meets AI-managed infrastructure, creating truly self-sustaining systems. This convergence transforms infrastructure from static…

www.cncf.io

Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 5d

"What is autonomous validation? The future of CI/CD in the AI era" by Blake Buisson

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What is autonomous validation? The future of CI/CD in the AI era

Learn about autonomous validation, the next evolution in software delivery that’s closing the gap between how fast teams can build and how fast they can deliver.

circleci.com

Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 5d

"Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away"

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Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”

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Ricardo Castro @mccricardo.bsky.social · 5d

Most teams and organizations learned a lot about their systems yesterday.

Not that they wanted to, but they were forced to.

Use those learnings to improve your systems