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Claude Code's Source Leak: What Happened and What Teams Should Learn
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Claude Code's Source Leak: What Happened and What Teams Should Learn

We had a different article planned for today. We bumped it because Anthropic's Claude Code source leak is a better lesson for engineering teams: release engineering mistakes can become public security events in a single publish.

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Claude Code's Source Leak: What Happened and What Teams Should Learn
DevOpsApr 1, 20265 min read

Claude Code's Source Leak: What Happened and What Teams Should Learn

We had a different article planned for today. We bumped it because Anthropic's Claude Code source leak is a better lesson for engineering teams: release engineering mistakes can become public security events in a single publish.

By Jason Overmier
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An npm Release Checklist for Teams Shipping Fast
DevOpsMar 31, 20265 min read

An npm Release Checklist for Teams Shipping Fast

The package you publish is the product customers receive. If your team does not inspect the final tarball, you are trusting your release pipeline more than you should.

By Jason Overmier
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SLOs and Error Budgets for SaaS Teams
DevOpsMar 30, 20265 min read

SLOs and Error Budgets for SaaS Teams

Reliability targets are only useful if they change decisions. SLOs and error budgets help SaaS teams decide when to keep shipping and when to slow down before trust erodes.

By Jason Overmier
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Incident Response for SaaS Teams: What to Prepare Before You Need It
DevOpsMar 29, 20265 min read

Incident Response for SaaS Teams: What to Prepare Before You Need It

Incident response quality is mostly decided before the incident starts. Teams that recover well already know who decides, who communicates, and what gets checked first.

By Jason Overmier
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Secrets Management for Modern Development Teams
DevOpsMar 28, 20265 min read

Secrets Management for Modern Development Teams

Credential leaks rarely happen because teams do not know secrets are important. They happen because the delivery process quietly teaches people unsafe shortcuts.

By Jason Overmier
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How to Security-Review AI Coding Tools Before Rollout
DevOpsMar 27, 20265 min read

How to Security-Review AI Coding Tools Before Rollout

AI coding tools do not just generate code. They can touch repositories, terminals, issue trackers, and internal context. Before you approve one across your team, review it like any other privileged engineering system.

By Jason Overmier
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Cloud Cost Optimization Audit: What to Check Before Your Bill Doubles
DevOpsMar 26, 20265 min read

Cloud Cost Optimization Audit: What to Check Before Your Bill Doubles

Cloud spend usually grows quietly: idle resources, oversized databases, unnecessary egress, and workloads nobody has revisited in months. A cost audit turns vague concern into an action list.

By Jason Overmier
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Lifting and Shifting to the Cloud: When It Actually Makes Sense
DevOpsMar 18, 20265 min read

Lifting and Shifting to the Cloud: When It Actually Makes Sense

Lift-and-shift is not lazy by default. In the right situation it buys time, reduces migration risk, and gets you out of fragile infrastructure faster.

By Jason Overmier
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CI/CD Pipeline Best Practices for 2026
DevOpsMar 12, 20265 min read

CI/CD Pipeline Best Practices for 2026

Modern CI/CD pipelines do more than just run tests. Here's how to build deployment pipelines that are fast, reliable, and safe.

By Jason Overmier
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Security Audit Checklist: What Actually Gets Tested
DevOpsFeb 15, 20265 min read

Security Audit Checklist: What Actually Gets Tested

Professional security audits aren't mysterious. Here's what actually happens during testing, what vulnerabilities they look for, and how to prepare.

By Jason Overmier
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Security in AI-Augmented Development: What AI Hallucinates and Humans Must Catch
DevOpsFeb 1, 20265 min read

Security in AI-Augmented Development: What AI Hallucinates and Humans Must Catch

AI can introduce security vulnerabilities that slip past code review. Here's how to audit AI-generated code for security issues before they reach production.

By Jason Overmier
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Why We Don't Recommend Kubernetes for Most MVPs
DevOpsJan 16, 20265 min read

Why We Don't Recommend Kubernetes for Most MVPs

Kubernetes is powerful infrastructure, but for most MVPs it's premature optimization that costs more than it saves. Here's when K8s makes sense, and when it doesn't.

By Jason Overmier
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Cloud Migration Checklist: A Step-by-Step Guide
DevOpsJan 2, 20265 min read

Cloud Migration Checklist: A Step-by-Step Guide

Moving from on-premise to cloud? Here's everything you need to consider.

By Jason Overmier
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