Musings and Mutterings through the Machines

Eleven Links of Note - December 31st, 2025

Doublespeak: Basically a form of trojan horse attack on LLMs.

Kubernetes Egress Control with Squid proxy: Key requirement in many secured environments is to be able to filter outbound traffic from your app, which this implementation is goinig to be useful.

From on-demand to live: how Netflix adjusted its cloud operations: Scaling for live streaming is different from on-damand, as it turns out.

Behind the Badge: Community, Process, and Care in Open Source Exams: The work done in order to make the Linux Foundation exams rigorous and relevant. Now if only they up the expiration for their certificates from 2 to 3.

Streamline your containerized CI/CD with GitLab Runners and Amazon EKS Auto Mode: Fully optimize your CICD flow.

Nvidia takes $5 billion stake in Intel under September agreement: Feels like it is only a matter of time before Intel is bought out completely.

Kubernetes Sidecar Pattern in Production: When Logging Slows Down Your App: I would like to note that any sort of logging will slow you down your systems, so be judicious of what you log from your app.

Consistently deploying Lambda functions and layers using Terraform: I really need to take advantage of lambda layers.

OpenFeature: Looks this up when Linux Foundation offered a course on it. Looks interesting enough that it is worth taking the course for. Maybe a good idea to try it out to avoid being locked to a vendor, which could result in your app going down when the vendor goes down.

The Audience Has Changed: Why We Must Stop Coding for Humans: I don't know if I completely agreed, but I do think it is very important to setup tests to validate what your AI is doing is correct.

About That Last Moment in the ‘Pluribus’ Season Finale: Best season finale ever.

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