Aaron and Shane both recently had a bad experience when buying hard drives, the hardware we picked for our homelabs, why gigabit LANs aren’t quite cutting it anymore, an update on Shane’s janky Kubernetes setup, and more.

https://hybridcloudshow.com/hcs29/

Join Magnus Jungsbluth at OWASP Global AppSec EU 2025 in Barcelona for an inside look at scaling Policy as Code across thousands of applications!

Policy as Code for Applications at Scale
Thursday, May 29, 2025
3:30 PM – 4:15 PM CEST

Register: https://owasp.glueup.com/event/123983/register/

A must-attend for platform engineers, appsec leaders, and anyone scaling security across modern organizations.

Next OpenUK London meet-up sponsored by Avanade: 21 May on Platform Engineering!
With Helen Gruel and Tasmin Fox Davies, hosted by Jennifer Riggins and Fergus Kidd
Find out more on joining here: https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/openuklondon24savethedate/
#opensource #opensourcesoftware #openuk #platformengineering

Noch nichts für #CLC_Conf eingereicht?

Hurry up, ihr habt bis morgen (01.05) Zeit, was einzureichen.

Wann? November 19–20, 2025
Wo? Mannheim, Germany

#callforpapers findet ihr unter https://heise.de/s/OPlv6

Wir (Matthias Parbel, Miriam Greis, Timo Derstappen, Steffen Schluff, Bastian Spanneberg, René Schönfeldt) freuen uns über Einreichungen über #PlatformEngineering, #DeveloperExperience, #GenAI, Software Delivery, #DevOps, Hashtag#DevSecOps und #GitOps. Gerne auch in Englisch!

Introducing bpflogd(8): capture packets via BPF to log files https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250425074505 #openbsd #bpflogd #bpf #networking #logging #development #sysadmin #devops #security #platformengineering

Been doing some Kubernetes API design today. It's thoughtful but not in quite the way other software design has felt.

I suppose the constraints make it easier to avoid some common mistakes. Spending quite a bit of effort though just wrangling GoLang types and kubebuilder annotations to try and get it how it ought to be.

With increasing numbers of organisations starting to seriously think about moving away from US-owned providers, we dig into the technical challenges of major cloud migrations.

https://hybridcloudshow.com/hcs28/

TIL you can use torrents to seed+distribute s3 files. I wonder if anyone has written the reverse, an s3 frontend backed by torrents. That strikes me as useful for fedi media caching (though perhaps the deduplication of hashes/IPFS would suit better)

https://carltonbale.com/how-to-create-and-seed-a-torrent-download-on-amazon-s3/

There is no Vibe Engineering
https://serce.me/posts/2025-31-03-there-is-no-vibe-engineering

Explore the evolving landscape of platform engineering and its impact on software development. Understand how organizations are adapting to meet the demands of modern application delivery. #PlatformEngineering

https://isaacl.dev/ggv

Fabien Deshayes shared Monzo's DevEx recipe at #QConLondon 2025:
- Assemble effective teams
- Build impactful products ("Monzo Magic")
- Communicate value.

Read the @infoq recap by Matt Saunders:
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/qcon-london-devex-monzo/
#DeveloperExperience #PlatformEngineering #Monzo

The best way to cope with a huge spike in traffic on a product launch day, and the most important public and private cloud technologies to learn.

https://hybridcloudshow.com/hcs27/

Run Red Hat Developer Hub Locally with Ease https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2025/03/31/run-red-hat-developer-hub-locally-ease
#redhat #developers #Backstage #idp #platformengineering

What’s the Future of Platform Engineering?, by @ma1lory.bsky.social and @nathenharvey.bsky.social (@TheNewStack):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ9G7jrv4GI

Interesting piece on the details of actual scale and shifting from Helm to CueLang with ArgoCD. Includes the why's as well as lessons learned.

https://medium.com/safetycultureengineering/our-journey-to-gitops-migrating-to-argocd-with-zero-downtime-932d0eefbe0d

The Anti-Burnout Blueprint: A Platform Engineer's Secret Weapon (It's a Coloring Book!)
https://open.substack.com/pub/myfear/p/the-anti-burnout-blueprint-a-platform
#MentalHealth #PlatformEngineering #ColoringBook #eBook

Shane tells us about the janky Kubernetes homelab that he’s building, and we all laugh at him.

https://hybridcloudshow.com/hcs26/