Ship It Weekly - DevOps, SRE, Platform and Cloud Engineering News

This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps). I sat down with Eric Paatey, a Cloud & DevOps Engineer who’s been transitioning from full-stack web development into cloud/devops, and building real skills through hands-on projects instead of just collecting tools and buzzwords. We talk about what that transition actually feels like, what’s helped m...

This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at real platform engineering in the wild. We start with Cloudflare’s write-up on building an internal maintenance scheduler on Workers. It’s not marketing fluff. It’s “we hit memory limits, changed the model, and stopped pulling giant datasets into the runtime.” Next up: AWS databases are now available inside the Vercel Marketplace. This is a quiet shift wi...

This is a Ship It Weekly conversation episode. The weekly news recaps are still weekly. These interviews drop in between when I find someone worth talking to and the convo feels useful. In this episode I’m joined by Mazharul “Maz” Islam (DevOps with Maz). Maz is a UK-based DevOps Engineer who shares practical, real-world DevOps content on YouTube and LinkedIn. We talk about the stuff that actually...

This week on Ship It Weekly , Brian looks at how the “platform tax” is showing up everywhere: pricing model shifts, CI dependencies, and new security boundaries thanks to AI agents. We start with GitHub Actions. GitHub announced a new “cloud platform” charge for self-hosted runners in private/internal repos… then hit pause after backlash. Hosted runner price reductions for 2026 are still planned....

In this episode of Ship It Weekly , Brian powers through a cold and digs into a very “infra grown-up” week in DevOps. First up, IBM is buying Confluent for $11B. We talk about what that means if you’re on Confluent Cloud today, still running your own Kafka, or trying to choose between Confluent, MSK, and DIY. It’s part of a bigger pattern after IBM’s HashiCorp deal, and it has real implications fo...

In this episode of Ship It Weekly , Brian looks at re:Invent through a platform/SRE lens and pulls out the updates that actually change how you design and run systems. We talk about regional NAT Gateways and Route 53 Global Resolver on the networking side, ECS Express Mode and EKS Capabilities as new paved roads for app teams, S3 Vectors GA and 50 TB S3 objects for AI and data lakes, Aurora Postgr...

In this episode of Ship It Weekly , Brian digs into what’s new for people actually running infra: Kubernetes config, EKS control planes and networking, and GitHub’s latest CI/CD and Copilot updates. We start with Kubernetes’ new configuration good practices post and how to turn it into a checklist to clean up Helm/Kustomize and kill off “hotfix from my laptop” manifests. Then we hit AWS: EKS Provi...

In this episode of Ship It Weekly , Brian digs into 3 big themes for anyone running Kubernetes or building internal platforms. First, Kubernetes is officially retiring Ingress NGINX and moving it into best-effort maintenance until March 2026. We talk about what that actually means if you’re still using it and how to think about choosing and rolling out a replacement ingress. Second, we look at how...

In this special kickoff episode of Ship It Weekly , Brian walks through three major outages from the last few weeks and what they actually mean for DevOps, SRE, and platform teams. Instead of just reading status pages, we look at how each incident exposes assumptions in our own architectures and runbooks: Topics in this episode: • Cloudflare’s global outage and what happens when your CDN/WAF becom...