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Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org

Greg Mohler — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Put native GitHub features to work to review outside collaborator access and archive stale repositories.

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Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

Josh Black — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000

A look at how a design system shipped major changes without breaking the world.

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AI-driven software delivery with Kiro, AWS DevOps Agent and Bluebox by Dynatrace

Philipp Ushiromiya — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:59:33 +0000

This post was co-written with Michael Stephan, Senior Principal Product Manager, and Christian Kreuzberger, Principal Software Engineer, at Dynatrace. AI-driven software delivery changes how code gets written, but not what production demands of it. A generated change still has to fit the traffic your service receives, the dependencies it calls, and the capacity limits it […]

Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good.

Taarik Ashenafi — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:56:32 +0000

We built a plugin for the GitHub Accessibility Scanner to make sure your alt text is actually accessible. Here's how it works.

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Scaling Autonomous Operations with AWS DevOps Agent and ServiceNow

Jack Hwang — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:55:26 +0000

This post is co-written with Govind Menon, Head of MCP Product at ServiceNow. Introduction Enterprise teams managing applications on AWS often rely on ServiceNow as their IT service management (ITSM) system for incident tracking, change management, and configuration management. When incidents occur, engineers must context-switch between AWS, third party observability tools and ServiceNow, manually correlating […]

Accelerating AWS Network Firewall troubleshooting with AWS DevOps Agent

Salman Ahmed — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:54:48 +0000

When an administrator introduces a rule change in AWS Network Firewall and network connectivity is disrupted, pinpointing the cause requires inspecting multiple points in the traffic path. The firewall gives you stateless and stateful rule engines, domain rules, and routing to the firewall endpoint inside your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). A network drop […]

Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows

David Pine — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:11:56 +0000

Explore how the Aspire team turns merged product changes into SME-reviewed docs pull requests, closing the gap between release and documentation.

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The Data Canary: How Netflix Validates Catalog Metadata

Netflix Technology Blog — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:54:17 +0000

By Celina AmadosAt Netflix, our catalog metadata is crucial to our member experience, and a single corrupted data state can impact millions of viewers immediately. To protect streaming reliability, we built an automated data canary system that validate...

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

Grant Bourzikas — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what the work around them needs to look like before any of it can scale.

Agent-driven development in Copilot Applied Science

Tyler McGoffin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000

I used coding agents to build agents that automated part of my job. Here's what I learned about working better with coding agents.

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From firefighting to building: How AI agents restored our team’s core productivity

Grab Tech — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:23:00 +0000

Abstract Grab’s Analytics Data Warehouse (ADW) team supports over 1,000 users each month and manages an extensive repository of more than 15,000 tables, which powers approximately 50% of all queries within our data lake. However, the manual process of...

Beyond the blank slate: how Cloudflare accelerates your Zero Trust journey

Michael Koyfman — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Project Helix simplifies and accelerates the onboarding process for Cloudflare One. By using automation and Terraform templates, this tool allows customers to quickly deploy a comprehensive, best-practice configuration in minutes.

How to get started with security response automation on AWS

Cameron Worrell — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:44:10 +0000

At AWS, we encourage you to use automation. Not just to deploy your workloads and configure services, but to also help you quickly detect and respond to security events within your AWS environments. In addition to increasing the speed of detection and response, automation also helps you scale your security operations as your workloads in […]

Streamline security response at scale with AWS Security Hub automation

Ahmed Adekunle — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:45:11 +0000

A new version of AWS Security Hub, is now generally available, introducing new ways for organizations to manage and respond to security findings. The enhanced Security Hub helps you improve your organization’s security posture and simplify cloud security operations by centralizing security management across your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. The new Security Hub transforms […]

Kinabalu AI SRE – Leveraging AI for scalable diagnostics and alert management (Part 1)

Grab Tech — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:23:00 +0000

Introduction If you’ve ever been on-call during an outage, you know the drill: a flood of alerts, five dashboards open, logs streaming from different places, a dozen threads in Slack, and still no clear picture. Context-switching kills velocity, and “...

How to automate incident response for Amazon EKS on Amazon EC2

Jonathan Nguyen — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:53:57 +0000

Triaging and quickly responding to security events is important to minimize impact within an AWS environment. Acting in a standardized manner is equally important when it comes to capturing forensic evidence and quarantining resources. By implementing automated solutions, you can respond to security events quickly and in a repeatable manner. Before implementing automated security solutions, […]

How we simplified NCMEC reporting with Cloudflare Workflows

Mahmoud Salem — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:00:00 +0000

We transitioned to Cloudflare Workflows to manage complex, multi-step processes more efficiently. This shift replaced our National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) reporting system.

Accelerate Serverless Streamlit App Deployment with Terraform

Kevon Mayers — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 05:07:23 +0000

Graphic created by Kevon Mayers. Introduction As customers increasingly seek to harness the power of generative AI (GenAI) and machine learning to deliver cutting-edge applications, the need for a flexible, intuitive, and scalable development platform has never been greater. In this landscape, Streamlit has emerged as a standout tool, making it easy for developers to […]

New whitepaper available: Building security from the ground up with Secure by Design

Bertram Dorn — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:58:26 +0000

Developing secure products and services is imperative for organizations that are looking to strengthen operational resilience and build customer trust. However, system design often prioritizes performance, functionality, and user experience over security. This approach can lead to vulnerabilities across the supply chain. As security threats continue to evolve, the concept of Secure by Design (SbD) […]

Implementing a compliance and reporting strategy for NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5

Josh Moss — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:06:18 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides tools that simplify automation and monitoring for compliance with security standards, such as the NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 Operational Best Practices. Organizations can set preventative and proactive controls to help ensure that noncompliant resources aren’t deployed. Detective and responsive controls notify stakeholders of misconfigurations immediately and automate fixes, thus […]