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June 13, 11:09 am

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News & Trends

Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces sudo With a Rust-Based Equivalent (5 minute read)

Canonical is replacing the traditional sudo command in Ubuntu 25.10 with a new version called sudo-rs, written in Rust, to improve memory safety and system security. Although sudo-rs is still under development and must be installed manually for now, it functions similarly to sudo and will eventually become the default while keeping the original sudo available as a fallback.
Amazon EC2 now enables you to delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs (3 minute read)

Amazon EC2 now supports automatic deletion of Amazon EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs, reducing storage costs and simplifying cleanup workflows. This feature is available at no extra cost across all AWS commercial and China regions and can be accessed through the EC2 Console, CLI, API, or SDK.
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Opinions & Tutorials

You're not a platform team if you're just managing infrastructure (5 minute read)

Many companies are renaming roles to "platform engineer" without fundamentally changing the work, leading to problems with Day-2 Operations and scalability, as teams still provision infrastructure manually with tools like Kubernetes instead of Linux VMs.
Implementing Grafana Play privacy policies with Grafana k6: A behind-the-scenes look (8 minute read)

Grafana Labs removed over 21,000 inactive users and deprecated broken dashboards from Grafana Play, a public sandbox environment for learning Grafana, to enhance security and data privacy. The cleanup involved using Python, JavaScript, and Grafana k6 to identify users inactive for over a year who had not created dashboards and detect broken panels in dashboards by scanning the DOM for error indicators.
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Resources & Tools

File Integrity Monitoring: The Definitive Guide (Sponsor)

File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) is a compliance checkbox in frameworks such as PCI-DSS โ€” but more importantly, it's a key tool to prevent malware and detect security threats. Written by the experts at Cimcor, this guide covers how FIM works, what to monitor, compliance considerations, and how to use automated actions. Get the guide
KubeSolo (GitHub Repo)

KubeSolo is a single-node Kubernetes distribution designed for constrained environments like IoT and embedded systems. It includes necessary components for offline readiness and reduces memory footprint by leveraging k3s forked Kubernetes.
iam-lens (GitHub Repo)

iam-lens is a tool that simulates requests and understands effective AWS IAM permissions by evaluating actual AWS IAM policies collected via iam-collect.
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Miscellaneous

Introducing an agentic coding experience in Visual Studio and JetBrains IDEs (5 minute read)

Amazon Q Developer now supports agentic coding in Visual Studio and JetBrains IDEs, enabling it to proactively analyze code, generate fixes, and execute tasks like unit test creation and build error resolution. It streamlines development workflows and improves productivity without requiring developers to leave their IDEs by leveraging contextual understanding and command execution.
Terraform vs. Jenkins: Key Differences Explained (9 minute read)

Terraform automates infrastructure provisioning using declarative configurations and state management, while Jenkins orchestrates CI/CD workflows by automating software build, test, and deployment tasks. Used together, they create fully automated DevOps pipelines to offer policy-driven, secure, and scalable infrastructure delivery.
Agentic Coding Recommendation (9 minute read)

This post shares an agentic coding workflow that favors Claude Code Sonnet with full permissions and minimal IDE reliance. It emphasizes the importance of fast, observable tools, stable ecosystems (especially Go), simple code, and strategic refactoring to make AI-assisted development efficient and resilient.
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Quick Links

Choosing the Right GPU Droplet for your AI/ML Workload (3 minute read)

DigitalOcean now provides four GPU Droplet types from AMD and Nvidia tailored for use cases like large model training, inference, and graphical processing, with more to come.
A Year of Envoy Gateway GA: Building, Growing, and Innovating Together (5 minute read)

Envoy Gateway, which went GA in March 2024 as a Kubernetes Gateway API implementation, has seen significant growth in its builder and user communities, with 211 contributors and 54 companies represented in the builder community.
The Python Language Summit 2025 (2 minute read)

The 2025 Python Language Summit focused on free-threading, concurrency, and governance, with talks on breaking changes, mobile, and Rust integration.

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