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01GENERAL

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03OPINIONS & TUTORIALS

WHAT IS INTERACTIVE APPLICATION SECURITY TESTING (IAST)?

Interactive application security testing instruments running applications to find issues like SQL injection and XSS with fewer false positives. It suits QA and staging but needs runtime agents, adds overhead, and scales poorly across microservices, so mature programs pair it with SAST and SCA.

harness.io9 min read

KUBELET WATCHES INODES. JUST NOT UNTIL IT'S AN EMERGENCY

Kubelet's background image garbage collection only monitors disk bytes, so workloads heavy on small files receive no early intervention before kubelet evicts pods. On one node, unpacked layers from a single-stage build containing the @mui/icons-material package consumed millions of inodes. A multi-stage Dockerfile can reduce the deployed image from more than 40,000 files to a few dozen. Adding a Prometheus alert for inode usage above 80% can catch the problem well before the 95% eviction threshold.

cncf.io11 min read

BEYOND SYNTHETIC TESTING: CAPTURING AND REPLAYING REAL DATABASE WORKLOADS AT AIRBNB

Airbnb captures production SQL traffic at ProxySQL and reconstructs transaction order and timing for controlled replay against test databases. The system supports capacity planning and upgrade comparisons, uncovering MySQL 8.0 performance regressions and queries whose results depended on unspecified row ordering.

airbnb.tech10 min read

04RESOURCES & TOOLS

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CLAUDE-MEM

Claude-Mem preserves context across sessions by capturing tool usage observations and generating semantic summaries for future use. The plugin works with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, Gemini, Hermes, Copilot, and OpenCode.

github.comGitHub repository

RADDEBUGGER

The RAD Debugger is a native, user-mode, multi-process graphical debugger currently in alpha. It supports local Windows x64 debugging with PDBs and plans to add Linux support later. The project also includes the RAD Linker, which creates x64 PE/COFF binaries and offers 50% faster link times for projects with gigabytes of debug info.

github.comGitHub repository

05MISCELLANEOUS

MONITOR WAREHOUSE DATA QUALITY BEYOND PIPELINE HEALTH

Pipeline success does not guarantee accurate warehouse data, so teams should add table, column, schema, and custom SQL checks with anomaly detection and thresholds. Lineage views trace issues upstream, and Datadog pairs Data Observability with Data Streams Monitoring for end-to-end coverage.

datadoghq.com6 min read

BUILDING RELIABLE REAL-HARDWARE CI: LESSONS FROM 15 YEARS OF TEST LABS

Shared worker hosts, power controllers, and USB hubs can turn one hardware failure into multiple broken CI jobs. Linaro's test-lab design gives each device a dedicated automation appliance and private network, with rollback-capable firmware to help keep the testing infrastructure reproducible and recoverable.

linaro.org14 min read