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Learn how to configure Ubuntu at launch using declarative, idempotent instructions stored in a version-controlled YAML file. In this talk, Rajan explains how this approach minimizes arbitrary commands, reduces risks of command injection and privilege escalation, and ensures validation and error handling. This is relevant on major public and private clouds, and virtualization solutions ranging from VMware, WSL, LXD, Multipass, Proxmox, and more.

What is uPKI? While web browsers automatically check if an HTTPS certificate has been revoked, other Linux command-line tools and applications usually skip this check. That leaves applications vulnerable to compromised or misissued certificates many months after this is discovered. In their talk, Joe Birr-Pixton and Dirkjan Ochtman will be introducing uPKI: a new effort to bring browser-grade certificate infrastructure to Linux. This effort is funded by Canonical, engineered by the maintainers of rustls, and builds on foundational work from Mozilla.

What used to be $50 a month is now $3,000 — overnight. Microsoft just moved GitHub Copilot to token-based billing, and devs are split between calling it a "rug pull" and admitting someone always had to pay the bill. Here's the part that should worry every engineering leader: most can't tell you what percentage of their AI-generated code actually ships, or where the tokens went. When the meter is running on every prompt, "it feels productive" isn't good enough — you need to know that bug cost you $2,700 in tokens to fix.

Your schema changed. Did your masking rules keep up? Here’s how Flyway and Test Data Manager can catch gaps and prevent PII exposure in dev and test. Tony and Tonie discuss how Flyway and Redgate Test Data Manager can work together in a CI pipeline to detect schema changes that introduce unmasked sensitive columns, helping teams keep production-derived test data protected as the database evolves.

The cloud shouldn't be two separate worlds. Civo delivers total cloud parity, the same features, APIs, and experience across public and private cloud. Powered by CivoStack, you can seamlessly move workloads anywhere, and with Konstruct, deploy alongside AWS, Azure, and Google. True multicloud freedom. No compromises. More control.

If 90% of code is now AI-generated, what happens to the engineers who never had to write it themselves? The ability to review code well, to catch what the LLM missed, depends on mental models that only come from practice. That tension sits at the center of this conversation.

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Dinesh Sukhija, Director of Engineering at Okta, to discuss how AI is reshaping the relationship between platform engineering, SRE, and security.

AI coding agents write code faster than your pipeline can catch mistakes. What if the agent could validate against CI before you ever push? In this 5-minute demo, we set up CircleCI's Chunk CLI and run a microbuild using Chunk sidecars, secure Linux microVMs that spin up in ~1 second in your CircleCI account, mirror your working directory (no git push required), and give your agent CI-grade feedback while it's still in context.