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Using Cortex AI Assistant to Clean Flags
Every team ships feature flags. Nobody owns the cleanup. The result is predictable: ownership gaps, environmental drift, complex targeting nobody remembers writing. In this Feature Friday, Cortex VP of Product Kara Gillis walks through how she triaged nearly 100 of our own LaunchDarkly flags using the Cortex AI Assistant in Slack. The Assistant queried our internal Feature Flag Scorecard and returned.
Remote deployment scripting
Getting a certificate from a CA is a solved problem (ACME). Distributing it to the rest of your infrastructure is not. Your F5 has its own API. Your Palo Alto has a different one. Azure Key Vault is a third thing entirely, and the appliance in the back of the rack only has an SSH interface.
Zero-Code OpenTelemetry for Vert.x
Drop a JAR on the JVM. Get distributed tracing, RxJava context propagation, log-trace correlation, and Vert.x internal metrics. No code changes. No Maven dependency. Java 8–21. Inside the design of last9/vertx-opentelemetry v2.3.4. Prathamesh works as an evangelist at Last9, runs SRE stories - where SRE and DevOps folks share their stories, and maintains o11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.
The zero-trust agent: why your AI needs a sandbox, not a blank check
Key takeaway: Granting AI agents unrestricted access to cloud infrastructure is an unacceptable security risk. Upsun provides a "zero-trust" framework by utilizing isolated, production-perfect preview environments that allow AI to be productive without the risk of a hallucinated production outage.
A New Era of Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities
There have been TWO major kernel vulnerabilities announced this week. Copy-Fail (CVE-2026-31431) was announced on April 30th. Dirty Frag (CVE-2026-43284), also known as 'Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo' announced literally hours ago. Both have already been patched on Cycle, and our users can receive this update simply by restarting their nodes. The Linux patch was released less than an two hours ago, and we're the first to get it to our customers.
Backup vs Disaster Recovery: They're NOT the Same Thing | Resilience Testing | Harness
Having backups doesn't mean you have disaster recovery. And that gap could kill your business. Backups are just data snapshots stored safely for restoration when files get corrupted or deleted. Disaster recovery is your complete operational playbook for bringing back servers, applications, networks, and entire infrastructure after catastrophic failures. You can restore every byte of data from backup and still watch your business stay offline for hours or days because you lack the recovery procedures, failover systems, and tested runbooks to actually get operations running again.
How to Improve Your Documentation with AI (CircleCI Chunk Tutorial)
AI coding assistants help you ship features fast, but documentation almost never keeps up. In this Ship Smarter session, we'll show you how CircleCI's Chunk autonomous CI/CD agent automatically analyzes your codebase, identifies documentation gaps, and opens a pull request with improvements. No manual writing required. In this video.
What's new in Turbo360 - Impact tracker, manage multiple customer accounts in one place for MSPs..
Turbo360 brings a suite of enhancements added to elevate your Azure management experience. Hit play to hear what's in store for this month.