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

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Ship It Weekly is a short, practical recap of what actually matters in DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering.

Each episode, your host Brian Teller walks through the latest outages, releases, tools, and incident writeups, then translates them into “here’s what this means for your systems” instead of just reading headlines. Expect a couple of main stories with context, a quick hit of tools or releases worth bookmarking, and the occasional segment on on-call, burnout, or team culture.

This isn’t a certification prep show or a lab walkthrough. It’s aimed at people who are already working in the space and want to stay sharp without scrolling status pages and blogs all week. You’ll hear about things like cloud provider incidents, Kubernetes and platform trends, Terraform and infrastructure changes, and real postmortems that are actually worth your time.

Most episodes are 10–25 minutes, so you can catch up on the way to work or between meetings. Every now and then there will be a “special” focused on a big outage or a specific theme, but the default format is simple: what happened, why it matters, and what you might want to do about it in your own environment.

If you’re the person people DM when something is broken in prod, or you’re building the platform everyone else ships on top of, Ship It Weekly is meant to be in your rotation.

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    • Ship It Conversations: Human-in-the-Loop Fixer Bots and AI Guardrails in CI/CD (with Gracious James)
      Jan 12 2026

      This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).

      In this Ship It: Conversations episode I talk with Gracious James Eluvathingal about TARS, his “human-in-the-loop” fixer bot wired into CI/CD.

      We get into why he built it in the first place, how he stitches together n8n, GitHub, SSH, and guardrailed commands, and what it actually looks like when an AI agent helps with incident response without being allowed to nuke prod. We also dig into rollback phases, where humans stay in the loop, and why validating every LLM output before acting on it is the single most important guardrail.

      If you’re curious about AI agents in pipelines but hate the idea of a fully autonomous “ops bot,” this one is very much about the middle ground: segmenting workflows, limiting blast radius, and using agents to reduce toil instead of replace engineers.

      Gracious also walks through where he’d like to take TARS next (Terraform, infra-level decisions, more tools) and gives some solid advice for teams who want to experiment with agents in CI/CD without starting with “let’s give it root and see what happens.”

      Links from the episode:

      Gracious on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gracious-james-eluvathingal

      TARS overview post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gracious-james-eluvathingal_aiagents-devops-automation-activity-7391064503892987904-psQ4

      If you found this useful, share it with the person on your team who’s poking at AI automation and worrying about guardrails.

      More information on our website: https://shipitweekly.fm

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      22 min
    • n8n Critical CVE (CVE-2026-21858), AWS GPU Capacity Blocks Price Hike, Netflix Temporal
      Jan 9 2026

      This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian’s theme is basically: the “automation layer” is not a side tool anymore. It’s part of your perimeter, part of your reliability story, and sometimes part of your budget problem too.

      We start with the n8n security issue. A lot of teams use n8n as glue for ops workflows, which means it tends to collect credentials and touch real systems. When something like this drops, the right move is to treat it like production-adjacent infra: patch fast, restrict exposure, and assume anything stored in the tool is high value.

      Next is AWS quietly raising prices on EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML. Even if you’re not a GPU-heavy shop, it’s a useful signal: scarce compute behaves like a market. If you do rely on scheduled GPU capacity, it’s time to revisit forecasts and make sure your FinOps tripwires catch rate changes before the end-of-month surprise.

      Third is Netflix’s write-up on using Temporal for reliable cloud operations. The best takeaway is not “go adopt Temporal tomorrow.” It’s the pattern: long-running operational workflows should be resumable, observable, and safe to retry. If your critical ops are still bash scripts and brittle pipelines, you’re one transient failure away from a very dumb day.

      In the lightning round: Kubernetes Dashboard getting archived and the “ops dependencies die” reality check, Docker pushing hardened images as a safer baseline and Pipedash.

      Links

      SRE Weekly issue 504 (source roundup) https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-504/

      n8n CVE (NVD) https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-21858

      n8n community advisory https://community.n8n.io/t/security-advisory-security-vulnerability-in-n8n-versions-1-65-1-120-4/247305

      AWS price increase coverage (The Register) https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/aws_price_increase/

      Netflix: Temporal powering reliable cloud operations https://netflixtechblog.com/how-temporal-powers-reliable-cloud-operations-at-netflix-73c69ccb5953

      Kubernetes SIG-UI thread (Dashboard archiving) https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-sig-ui/c/vpYIRDMysek/m/wd2iedUKDwAJ

      Kubernetes Dashboard repo (archived) https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard

      Pipedash https://github.com/hcavarsan/pipedash

      Docker Hardened Images https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-hardened-images-for-every-developer/

      More episodes and more details on this episode can be found on our website: https://shipitweekly.fm

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      16 min
    • Ship It Conversations: Backstage vs Internal IDPs, and Why DevEx Muscle Matters (with Danny Teller)
      Jan 6 2026

      This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly (separate from the weekly news recaps).

      I sat down with Danny Teller, a DevOps Architect and Tech Lead Manager at Tipalti, to talk about internal developer platforms and the reality behind “just set up a developer portal.” We get into Backstage versus internal IDPs, why adoption is the real battle, and why platform/DevEx maturity matters more than whatever tool you pick.

      What we covered

      Backstage vs internal IDPs Backstage is a solid starting point for a developer portal, but it doesn’t magically create standards, ownership, or platform maturity. We talk about when Backstage fits, and when teams end up building internal tooling anyway.

      DevEx muscle (the make-or-break) Danny’s take: the portal UI is the easy part. The hard part is the ongoing work that makes it useful: paved roads, sane defaults, support, and keeping the catalog/data accurate so engineers trust it.

      Where teams get burned Common failure mode: teams ship a portal first, then realize they don’t have the resourcing, ownership, or workflows behind it. Adoption fades fast if the portal doesn’t remove real friction.

      A build vs buy gut check We walk through practical signals that push you toward open source Backstage, a managed Backstage offering, or a commercial portal. We also hit the maintenance trap: if you build too much, you’ve created a second product.

      Links and resources

      Danny Teller's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-teller/

      matlas — one CLI for Atlas and MongoDB: https://github.com/teabranch/matlas-cli

      Backstage: https://backstage.io/

      Roadie (managed Backstage): https://roadie.io/

      Port: https://www.port.io/

      Cortex: https://www.cortex.io/

      OpsLevel: https://www.opslevel.com/

      Atlassian Compass: https://www.atlassian.com/software/compass

      Humanitec Platform Orchestrator: https://humanitec.com/products/platform-orchestrator

      Northflank: https://northflank.com/

      If you enjoyed this episode Ship It Weekly is still the weekly news recap, and I’m dropping these guest convos in between. Follow/subscribe so you catch both, and if this was useful, share it with a platform/devex friend and leave a quick rating or review. It helps more than it should.

      Visit our website at https://www.shipitweekly.fm

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      26 min
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