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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
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
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
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
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
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
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