Ricardo Castro
mccricardo.bsky.social
Ricardo Castro
@mccricardo.bsky.social
Senior Principal Engineer, tech speaker & writer, @DevOpsPorto and @DevOpsDaysPT, @CDeliveryFdn Ambassador, martial arts amateur, and metal lover. Opinions are my own.

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"Top 28 Kubernetes Resources for 2026: Learn and Stay Up-to-Date" by Nick Haven

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Top 28 Kubernetes Resources for 2026: Learn and Stay Up-to-Date
Here are 28 high‑signal places to listen, watch, and discuss different aspects of the Kubernetes and cloud native ecosystem, from fundamentals to advanced ops.​
www.fairwinds.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"MCP joins the Linux Foundation: What this means for developers building the next era of AI tools and agents" by Martin Woodward

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MCP joins the Linux Foundation: What this means for developers building the next era of AI tools and agents
MCP is moving to the Linux Foundation. Here's how that will affect developers.
github.blog
December 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"A cloud engineering lead’s 7 lessons about speed vs. security" by Mitch Pronschinske

www.hashicorp.com/pt/blog/a-cl...
www.hashicorp.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Feature Flagging for Your Infrastructure" by Elisabeth Lichtie

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Feature Flagging for Your Infrastructure
Apply feature flagging to infrastructure with Pulumi. Control rollouts, reduce deployment risk, and automate updates using ESC or LaunchDarkly.
www.pulumi.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"What I Really Mean When I Say “Good Communication” in Incident Response" by Hamed Silatani

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What I Really Mean When I Say "Good Communication" in Incident Response - Uptime Labs
“Good communication” is one of those phrases everyone nods along to — until the incident hits, and suddenly comms unravel before your eyes. So here’s what I actually mean when I say communication…
uptimelabs.io
December 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"It is your fault if your application is down" by Uwe Friedrichsen

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It is your fault if your application is down
Do not blame the infrastructure provider
www.ufried.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"AWS and Google Cloud collaborate to simplify multicloud networking" by Rob Enns and Robert Kennedy

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AWS and Google Cloud collaborate on multicloud networking | Google Cloud Blog
AWS and Google Cloud’s jointly engineered multicloud networking solution uses AWS Interconnect - multicloud and Google Cloud Cross-Cloud Interconnect.
cloud.google.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"Reliability and Fault Tolerance" by Oakley Hall

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Reliability and Fault Tolerance
In any conversation about distributed systems, the subject of reliability and fault tolerance will come up. These concepts are related but…
medium.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"Building a CLI Tool to Monitor Render.com Services with Claude" by Miguel David

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Cloud Application Platform | Render
On Render, you can build, deploy, and scale your apps with unparalleled ease – from your first user to your billionth.
Render.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"Failure is inevitable: Learning from a large outage, and building for reliability in depth at Datadog" by Laura de Vesine, Rob Thomas and Maciej Kowalewski

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Failure is inevitable: Learning from a large outage, and building for reliability in depth at Datadog | Datadog
After a major outage, we re-architected Datadog systems to degrade gracefully under failure. Here's what we learned—and how we’re building forward.
www.datadoghq.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is also happening!

Teaming up with Manthan Raval to deliver a great talk.
December 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"From Static Rate Limiting to Adaptive Traffic Management in Airbnb’s Key-Value Store" by Shravan Gaonkar

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From Static Rate Limiting to Adaptive Traffic Management in Airbnb’s Key-Value Store
How Airbnb hardened Mussel, our key-value store, with smarter traffic controls to stay fast and reliable during traffic spikes.
medium.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Let's go @aws re:Invent.
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Modern Architecture 101 for New Engineers & Forgetful Experts - Jerry Nixon - NDC Copenhagen 2025"

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Modern Architecture 101 for New Engineers & Forgetful Experts - Jerry Nixon - NDC Copenhagen 2025
This talk was recorded at NDC Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark. #ndccopenhagen #ndcconferences #developer #softwaredeveloper Attend the next NDC conference near you:…
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December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"Top 7 Observability Platforms That Auto-Discover Services" by Anjali Udasi

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Top 7 Observability Platforms That Auto-Discover Services | Last9
Auto-discovery tools now detect services as they appear and build dashboards instantly. Here are seven platforms that do it well.
last9.io
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"Securing MCP servers with 1Password: Stop credential exposure in your agent configurations" by Nancy Wang and Robert Menke

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Securing MCP servers with 1Password: Stop credential exposure in your agent configurations | 1Password
Secure your MCP or AI dev environments by pulling secrets from 1Password at runtime, not storing them in code. No plaintext tokens. No leaks.
1password.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
"Reliability lessons from the 2025 Cloudflare outage" by Andre Newman

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Reliability lessons from the 2025 Cloudflare outage
In November 2025, a misconfigured Cloudflare service led to a partial outage. Learn what happened, and what you can do to reduce the impact of similar outages.
www.gremlin.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Building an NBA Game Recommender: A Study in Poor Time Management and AI" by Miguel David

migueldavid.eu/posts/buildi...
Building an NBA Game Recommender: A Study in Poor Time Management and AI - The writing outlet
NBA 🏀 has 82 games per season. 10 games some nights. Two hours each. I have two kids, a dog that needs walking, a house that needs cleaning and then...
migueldavid.eu
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM