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 10 job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and…
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Source Have you ever re-read something you wrote and thought, “Wow, that really sounds like me”? That feeling isn’t just about familiarity. Your writing style, the way you structure sentences, the words you reach for first, how long your paragraphs run, all of it is a surprisingly accurate map of how your brain organizes and expresses ideas. Linguists, cognitive scientists, and writing researchers have spent decades studying the connection between how people write and how they think. What they’ve found is genuinely interesting: your style isn’t just a habit you picked up in school. It reflects the way you process…
Sysstat is a collection of performance monitoring utilities for Linux that includes mpstat, pidstat, iostat, and sar, and together they give you a real-time and historical view of everything your system is doing. Most sysadmins start with top command when something looks wrong, such as high CPU usage, system lag, or load spikes. It provides a quick snapshot, but it also has its own limitation, for example it only shows the current state and does not explain what is causing the problem over time. In real Linux performance issues, CPU is rarely the only factor, but bottlenecks usually come from…
For most of its life, Cursor has been an IDE. A very good one. But with the public beta of the Cursor SDK, the company is making a different kind of move — one that should get the attention of DevOps teams. The Cursor SDK is a TypeScript library that gives engineers programmatic access to the same runtime, models, and agent harness that power Cursor’s desktop app, CLI, and web interface. In short, the agents that used to live inside an editor can now be invoked from anywhere in your stack. That’s a meaningful shift in how AI coding tools…
I keep coming back to CSV files whenever I need to move data between systems. They are the simplest way to represent tabular data as plain text, and every system from databases to spreadsheets can read them. If you have been storing data in Excel and need something more portable, CSV is where most people end up. This article covers how to write data into CSV files using Python’s built-in csv module. By the end, you will know how to use csv.writer and csv.DictWriter, handle headers, append data to existing files, and read the results back. TLDR Open files with…
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I’m going to say something that will make every engineering manager uncomfortable: Stop asking your team to write documentation. Not because documentation doesn’t matter. It matters more than ever. But because asking humans to document their work after they’ve done it is a process that has failed consistently for thirty years, and no amount of “definition of done” checklists or documentation sprints is going to fix it. The people who know the most write the least. The docs that get written are stale within weeks. And the knowledge that matters most — the decisions, the gotchas, the “why” behind the…
You’re running df -h every 30 seconds by hand to watch a disk fill up, typing the same command over and over like it’s your job, when there’s a single built-in tool that does it for you automatically. Every sysadmin hits this situation at some point. You’re watching something (like disk usage or a process), and you keep running the same command again and again to see updates. Using tail isn’t helpful here, and you don’t feel like writing a loop or setting up a cron job. That’s where the watch command comes in, which is a simple tool that…
There is a particular flavour of engineering dysfunction that looks, from the outside, like peak performance. Deployments are frequent. Sprint velocity is high. The feature backlog is shrinking. Leadership is pleased. And underneath all of it, the system is quietly rotting. Technical debt compounds with every rushed deployment. Observability gaps widen because nobody has time to instrument the new services properly. The on-call rotation gets noisier every month. But the velocity metrics keep climbing, so nobody sounds the alarm until something breaks badly enough that velocity stops being the conversation. I call this the velocity trap, and it is the…
Let me describe a scenario that is already playing out in production environments. A team deploys an AI agent to handle routine infrastructure scaling. The agent performs flawlessly for weeks. It optimizes costs, responds to traffic patterns faster than any human could, and the team starts trusting it implicitly. Then one Thursday at 3 AM, the agent encounters a pattern it has never seen before, a cascading partial failure combined with a DNS propagation delay, and it confidently makes exactly the wrong call. It scales down the healthy instances because it misread the health check responses. This is not a…