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DevOps
Automatically Integrate Grafana with AWS Fargate: A Practical Pattern for 2026
AWS Fargate is one of the cleanest ways to run containers. You hand AWS a task definition, and the platform schedules, networks, and bills you per task. No EC2 …
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Jun 03, 2026
Digital Transformation
Three Doors, Three Lanes: A 2026 Gen AI Adoption Playbook
About a year and a half ago, I wrote a LinkedIn post called "Gen AI adoption blues". The argument was that the conversation about generative AI was running ahea…
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May 20, 2026
DevOps
Writing a GitLab Pipeline with Claude Code
I've been using Claude Code for our internal GitLab pipelines for a while now and wanted to write up what the workflow actually looks like in practice. The serv…
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Apr 28, 2026
DevOps
Importing Existing Infrastructure into Terraform with Claude Code
Every consulting engagement has the same moment. The client walks you through their AWS account and at some point says "yeah, someone set that up manually a whi…
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Apr 24, 2026
DevOps
How to Generate Terraform Modules with Claude
Most LLM-generated Terraform is bad. You ask for a module, you get something that looks right, and then terraform validate lights up with errors. Provider block…
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Apr 24, 2026
Custom Software Development
How To Connect Claude Code to Your Rails Models with MCP Servers
If you're using Claude Code (Anthropic's CLI coding assistant), you've probably hit this wall: your AI pair-programmer can read your code, run your tests, and e…
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Apr 22, 2026
DevOps
Managing AWS Organizations and SCPs with Infrastructure as Code
Most AWS environments grow in the same direction: one account becomes two, two becomes five, and eventually someone is manually clicking through the console try…
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Apr 22, 2026
Security
Your Software Has Vulnerabilities. Here’s How We Use Claude to Find Them.
Every codebase has vulnerabilities, and it is a mathematical certainty. The average commercial software application contains between 20 and 30 open-source depen…
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Apr 21, 2026
DevOps
Claude Code Configurations Every Rails Engineer Should Use
If you've tried Claude Code on a large Rails codebase, you've probably noticed the gap between the demos and reality. The demos show Claude refactoring a 50-lin…
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Apr 15, 2026
DevOps
Using Terraform Workspaces to Keep Infrastructure Consistent Across Environments
Infrastructure drift is something we run into constantly when starting a new client engagement. Production looks nothing like staging. Staging looks nothing lik…
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Apr 15, 2026
DevOps
How NextLink Labs Builds Production AWS Infrastructure
Overview Every new AWS engagement at NextLink Labs used to start from scratch. Engineers assembled infrastructure from memory, past projects, or whatever patter…
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Apr 07, 2026
Custom Software Development
Defending Your Rails App: Enabling Dependency Cooldowns to Prevent Supply Chain Attacks
On March 31, 2026, a North Korean state actor hijacked the npm account of an Axios maintainer and published two backdoored versions of one of the world's most p…
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Apr 06, 2026
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