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DevOps
Automatically Integrate Grafana with AWS Fargate: A Practical Pattern for 2026
Learn how to add Grafana observability to any AWS Fargate service using a Grafana Alloy sidecar and a single Terraform module block — CPU, memory, network, and trace signals flowing in under five minu...
Aru Shanmugam
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Jun 3, 2026
Digital Transformation
Three Doors, Three Lanes: A 2026 Gen AI Adoption Playbook
The question is no longer 'should we adopt generative AI?' It's two portfolio decisions most engineering leaders aren't yet structured to answer. A 2026 framework for substrate choices and lane sequen...
Aru Shanmugam
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May 20, 2026
DevOps
Writing a GitLab Pipeline with Claude Code
A Jenkinsfile with one stage, no scanning, no caching. Here's how NextLink Labs used Claude Code to rewrite it into a production GitLab pipeline with rootless BuildKit, Trivy scanning, Skopeo retag, a...
Alex Podobnik
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Apr 28, 2026
DevOps
Importing Existing Infrastructure into Terraform with Claude Code
Someone set that up manually a while back. Sound familiar? Here's how NextLink Labs uses Claude Code's agentic loop to import hand-built AWS infrastructure into Terraform — compressing a multi-day job...
Alex Podobnik
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Apr 24, 2026
DevOps
How to Generate Terraform Modules with Claude
Most LLM-generated Terraform is bad — not because of the tool, but because of the prompt. Here's how NextLink Labs uses Claude Code and CLAUDE.md conventions to generate Terraform modules that are clo...
Alex Podobnik
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Apr 24, 2026
Custom Software Development
How To Connect Claude Code to Your Rails Models with MCP Servers
One account becomes five, and eventually nobody knows which guardrails are where. Here's how NextLink Labs manages AWS Organizations, OU hierarchies, and Service Control Policies with Terraform and Gi...
Colin Soleim
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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. Traditional scanners catch known patterns — but miss business logic flaws, unreachable CVEs, and compound misconfigurations. Here's how NextLink Labs uses Claude to...
Travis Burmaster
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Apr 21, 2026
DevOps
Claude Code Configurations Every Rails Engineer Should Use
Claude Code works great on 50-line demos. Large Rails codebases are different. Here's how NextLink Labs configures CLAUDE.md, MCP servers, custom skills, and permission hooks to make Claude genuinely ...
Colin Soleim
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Apr 15, 2026
Cloud
How We Built a Weekly AWS Cost Digest Powered by AI
Learn how NextLink Labs built an AI-powered AWS cost digest to automate cloud expense tracking, identify anomalies, and optimize spending with weekly insights.
Alex Podobnik
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Mar 19, 2026
Custom Software Development
Setting Up Your Ruby on Rails Monolith for AI Development
Large Rails monoliths burn millions of tokens per AI session. These 5 architectural changes cut costs and boost AI suggestion quality by 3-4x.
Colin Soleim
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Feb 19, 2026
AI
Your Engineers Are Already Running AI Agents. Do You Know Which Ones?
Most companies are either over-engineered or under-governed for AI agents. A six-layer maturity framework for figuring out where you actually need to be.
Jordan Saunders
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Feb 17, 2026
AI
AI Overconfidence: Smarter Than Us or Just More Convincing?
Explore the pitfalls of AI overconfidence in critical fields like hiring, finance, healthcare, and law enforcement, and discover solutions for more accountable AI systems.
Jeremy Dodson
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Mar 17, 2025