AWS Europe Cloud ☁️, Iran Internet Shutdown 🌐, Automated Code Reviews 📜

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What we know about Iran's Internet shutdown (5 minute read) Internet traffic from Iran dropped to effectively zero on January 8 amid widespread protests, following a 98.5% decline in IPv6 address space and a 90% fall in overall traffic from major providers. As of January 10, the country remained almost entirely cut off from the global internet, mirroring past government tactics during periods of unrest. 🚀 Opinions & Tutorials Kubernetes v1.35: A Better Way to Pass Service Account Tokens to CSI Drivers (9 minute read) Kubernetes v1.35 introduces an opt-in beta feature that allows CSI drivers to receive service account tokens via the secrets field instead of volume_context, reducing accidental token logging while preserving backward compatibility through explicit driver adoption and fallback logic. Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail (9 minute read) Senior engineers often let bad projects fail because influence is limited: being right isn't the same as being effective, and constant pushback burns credibility and political capital. The key skill is spending influence strategically—speaking up only when the blast radius is high, your expertise is strong, and the cost of silence outweighs the cost of intervention. 🧑‍💻 Resources & Tools Good Enough, Faster, Smarter (Sponsor) For AI observability agents, marginal accuracy gains often aren't worth the cost. Learn why agents that are "fast & close to right" deliver reliable insights in practice. Read the Honeycomb blog here Oh My Opencode (GitHub Repo) Sisyphus is a "batteries-included" agent harness designed to significantly boost coding productivity with LLMs like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. It enables sophisticated multi-agent workflows and deep code exploration. Ralph (GitHub Repo) Ralph, an autonomous AI agent loop, is a system designed to repeatedly execute tasks until all Product Requirements Document (PRD) items are complete. It operates by spawning fresh Amp instances for each iteration, with memory persisted via git history, progress.txt, and prd.json, and updates AGENTS.md with learnings to enhance future development. 🎁 Miscellaneous BadPods Series: Everything Allowed on AWS EKS (10 minute read) An AWS EKS experiment using BishopFox BadPods showed that a fully permissive pod configuration enables container escape, lateral movement, and theft of IAM credentials, leading to complete Kubernetes node and AWS account compromise under default EKS security settings. Automated Code Reviews in Azure DevOps using OpenAI models powered by Microsoft Foundry (10 minute read) This post explains how to build an automated, low-cost AI code reviewer for Azure DevOps using Microsoft Foundry and GPT-5 models, integrating structured JSON feedback into pull requests via pipelines, scripts, and customizable prompts. Adapting the Facebook Reels RecSys AI Model Based on User Feedback (4 minute read) Facebook Reels significantly improved its video recommendation system, leading to enhanced user retention metrics. This was achieved by implementing a new "interest matching" approach that integrated large-scale user surveys to directly gauge content relevance, boosting high-interest videos after previous methods only achieved 48.3% precision. ⚡ Quick Links Mobile Dev Trends: Cross‑Platform Adoption, Rising Flakiness and How to Improve (Sponsor) See how top teams cut build times up to 28% using Bitrise. Learn the latest trends—cross‑platform growth, rising flakiness—and practical fixes to speed releases and scale safely. Get the report free here. Get the report free here. AWS CloudWatch Evolves into Unified Observability Platform with Apache Iceberg Support (2 minute read) Amazon CloudWatch now offers a unified observability platform with cross-account log aggregation, Apache Iceberg-compatible queries, OCSF and OTel support, and third-party integration. Bringing secure, just-in-time secrets to Cursor with 1Password (5 minute read) 1Password and Cursor announced an integration using Cursor Hooks to provide just-in-time, in-memory access to secrets from 1Password for AI agents. Orion Browser's Linux Alpha is Finally Here (3 minute read) Kagi, developers of a paid search engine, released an alpha build of its privacy-focused, WebKit-based Orion web browser for Linux, currently available to paid Orion+ subscribers. Love TLDR? Tell your friends and get rewards! 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