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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Observability Best Practices with Grafana Cloud
Introduction Observability is not monitoring. Monitoring tells you when something is wrong. Observability lets you ask arbitrary questions about your systems, i…
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Mar 31, 2026
Leveraging Hardened Docker Images: How We Stay Secure and Eliminate Image Maintenance Overhead
Why Hardened Images? The Default Is a Liability When developers choose base images freely, the result is always the same: a fragmented estate of ubuntu:latest, …
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Mar 26, 2026
Security Event Monitoring: From Reactive Alerts to Proactive Threat Detection
This guide is part of the NextLink DevSecOps Maturity Framework.
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Mar 24, 2026
How We Built a Weekly AWS Cost Digest Powered by AI
Stop reading raw Cost Explorer graphs. Let Claude write your FinOps briefing. The Problem With AWS Cost Explorery Every Monday morning, someone on your team ope…
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Mar 19, 2026
Application Performance Monitoring: A Strategic Guide to APM Maturity
This guide is part of the NextLink DevSecOps Maturity Framework.
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Mar 13, 2026