DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience.Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers.Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so when one DevOps professional takes on a new role, it tends to create opportunities for others.The ten job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and naturally, the pay…
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Full, differential and log backups are the three things almost every SQL Server DBA can define, and the three things a surprising number of us get wrong under pressure at two in the morning.I’ve been answering the same question for twenty years. Somebody has a full backup, a pile of differentials, and a few hundred log backups, and they want to know which ones go back in and in what order.I wrote it up in July 2009 with a static diagram. That post still gets traffic every single week, which tells you the question never went away.So this time I’ve…
The term “tokenmaxxing” left the developer lexicon just as quickly as it arrived, and like most viral technology concepts, it means different things depending on who’s using it. In practice, the term is being applied in two ways: maximizing total token consumption as a proxy for AI adoption and effort, or optimizing output per token as a measure of efficiency and skill. These are two very different things, and conflating them is causing organizations to reach for the wrong measurement framework at the wrong time.Why might this be happening? Token usage is a function of query volume and context: how…
Aug 24, 2026 MinIO End of Life: How to Stay Patched and Audit-Ready with Docker ELS Supply-chain attacks have kept escalating while AI writes more of the code you ship. Docker’s latest updates bring more software built from source into your images, keep security coverage running past end of life, carry every guarantee through your customized images, and move policy enforcement onto every developer machine. Read now
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I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, including the Redgate Monitor MCP Server. It took me a few tries, and some help from engineers to get connected. I’ll cover how I did this in Claude and Visual Studio Code in this post, and try to warn you about a few places I made mistakes.This is part of a series of posts on Redgate Monitor. Click to see the other posts.Creating A TokenI’m not going to bore you with the setup and configuration of the Redgate Monitor instance. That procedure might change by release, so I’ll assume…
Most sysadmins only use cat to dump a file and tail -f to watch logs. That leaves a lot of useful behavior untouched and a lot of time wasted scrolling through files that could be sliced in seconds. Every Linux system whether it’s a cloud VM, a bare-metal server, or a container running a single servic; generates files constantly. Config files, log files, CSV exports, deployment outputs, and cron job records are everywhere. Being able to read and inspect those files quickly, without opening an editor or writing a Python script, is one of the most underrated command-line skills. The…
TL;DR — Key Takeaways Knowledge retrieval is a major incident-response bottleneck. Engineers often spend substantial time searching old tickets, runbooks, postmortems and internal documentation before they can fix the actual problem. Traditional AIOps tools do not solve the whole problem because much of the most useful incident knowledge lives in unstructured text rather than metrics and traces. The RAG system combines incident data, document-aware chunking, vector retrieval, re-ranking, LLM reasoning and a feedback loop. It achieved 87.3% root-cause identification accuracy across 2,400 incident scenarios, while mean diagnosis time fell 59%. If you’ve ever been paged at 2 a.m. for a…
What AI thinks a DBA does all day is a calm, orderly, deeply reassuring Tuesday. It has backups, documentation, proactive health checks, and apparently a door that closes. I asked. Then I wrote down my actual Tuesday. Its day has six items. Mine has thirteen.I asked it to describe a typical day for a database administrator. It answered instantly, with the confidence of something that has never been cc’d.One Tuesday, according to the job description and according to Tuesday.What AI Thinks HappensWhat Actually Happens9:00. Review overnight backup jobs and monitoring alerts.9:04. Somebody asks whether the database is slow. The database is not…
TL;DR — Key Takeaways isolated-vm, a popular Node.js sandbox considered more secure than vm2, has a critical flaw that lets malicious code escape its isolation and potentially hijack the host process for remote code execution. The bug is in the C++ glue code that transfers data between V8 isolates, where a time-of-check-to-time-of-use flaw in ExternalCopy can turn a seemingly safe ivm.Reference into a full guest-to-host escape. With isolated-vm used by more than a million projects/downloads a week—including AI and automation platforms—developers should urgently upgrade to versions 7.0.1 or 6.2.0 and scrutinize how their sandboxes could cross security boundaries. Developers for…