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Ship It Weekly
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curl Shuts Down Bug Bounties Due to AI Slop, AWS RDS Blue/Green Cuts Switchover Downtime to ~5 Seconds, and Amazon ECR Adds Cross-Repository Layer Sharing
This episode of Ship It Weekly discusses how faster systems are creating new challenges for developers. Curl ends its bug bounty program due to low-quality AI reports, highlighting incentive issues. AWS reduces RDS Blue/Green switchover downtime to ~5 seconds, but risks remain.

n8n Auth RCE (CVE-2026-21877), GitHub Artifact Permissions, and AWS DevOps Agent Lessons
This episode of Ship It Weekly discusses the critical n8n vulnerability CVE-2026-21877, emphasizing the need to treat workflow tools as control planes. It also covers GitHub's fine-grained artifact permissions and AWS's insights on operationalizing DevOps agents.

Ship It Conversations: Human-in-the-Loop Fixer Bots and AI Guardrails in CI/CD (with Gracious James)
In this episode, Gracious James discusses TARS, a human-in-the-loop fixer bot designed to enhance CI/CD processes. He explains how TARS integrates tools like n8n and GitHub while maintaining crucial guardrails to prevent errors in production.

n8n Critical CVE (CVE-2026-21858), AWS GPU Capacity Blocks Price Hike, Netflix Temporal
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, the focus is on the critical n8n CVE-2026-21858 vulnerability, highlighting the importance of treating automation tools as part of the security perimeter.

Ship It Conversations: Backstage vs Internal IDPs, and Why DevEx Muscle Matters (with Danny Teller)
In this episode, Danny Teller discusses the nuances of internal developer platforms (IDPs) versus Backstage, emphasizing that simply setting up a portal isn't enough.

Fail Small, IaC Control Planes, and Automated RCA
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian explores automation's rapid advancement and its implications for oversight.

Ship It Conversations: From Full-Stack to Cloud/DevOps, One Project at a Time (with Eric Paatey)
In this episode, Eric Paatey shares his journey transitioning from full-stack development to Cloud/DevOps, emphasizing hands-on project experience. He discusses the importance of communication in DevOps, the challenges of tool overload, and his simple homelab setup for learning.

Cloudflare’s Workers Scheduler, AWS DBs on Vercel, and JIT Admin Access
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian discusses Cloudflare's internal maintenance scheduler built on Workers, addressing memory limits and data modeling.

Ship It Conversations: The WHY Behind DevOps, Upskilling, and Agentic AI (with Maz Islam)
In this episode, Mazharul Islam discusses the core principles of DevOps, emphasizing the importance of understanding the 'why' behind practices rather than just tools.

GitHub Runner Pricing Pause, Terraform Cloud Limits, and AI in CI
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian discusses the implications of GitHub's paused pricing changes for self-hosted runners and HashiCorp's Terraform Cloud limits.

IBM Buys Confluent, React2Shell, and Netflix on Aurora
In this episode, the hosts discuss IBM's $11B acquisition of Confluent and its implications for users of Confluent Cloud and Kafka.

AWS re:Invent for Platform Teams, GKE at 130k Nodes, and Killing Staging
In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian discusses key AWS re:Invent updates relevant for platform and SRE teams, including regional NAT Gateways and ECS Express Mode.

Kubernetes Config Reality Check, EKS Control Planes, and GitHub Guardrails
In this episode, Brian explores essential updates for running infrastructure, focusing on Kubernetes configuration best practices, AWS EKS control planes, and GitHub's CI/CD enhancements.

Kubernetes Shake-ups, Platform Reality, and AI-Native SRE
In this episode, Brian discusses Kubernetes' retirement of Ingress NGINX and its implications for users. He also explores CNCF's definition of platform engineering and the new AI Conformance Program for Kubernetes.

Special: When the Cloud Has a Bad Day: Cloudflare, AWS us-east-1 & GitHub Outages
This episode of Ship It Weekly examines recent outages from Cloudflare, AWS, and GitHub, highlighting their implications for DevOps and SRE teams. The discussion focuses on how these incidents challenge assumptions about system reliability and disaster recovery strategies.
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Ship It Weekly is a short, practical recap of what actually matters in DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering.
Each episode, your host Brian Teller walks through the latest outages, releases, tools, and incident writeups, then translates them into “here’s what this means for your systems” instead of just reading headlines. Expect a couple of main stories with context, a quick hit of tools or releases worth bookmarking, and the occasional segment on on-call, burnout, or team culture.
This isn’t a certification prep show or a lab walkthrough. It’s aimed at people who are already working in the space and want to stay sharp without scrolling status pages, cloud updates, and blogs all week. You’ll hear about things like cloud provider incidents, Kubernetes and platform trends, Terraform and infrastructure changes, and real postmortems that are actually worth your time.
Most episodes are 15–30 minutes, so you can catch up on the way to work or between meetings. Every now and then there will be a “special” focused on a big outage or a specific theme, but the default format is simple: what happened, why it matters, and what you might want to do about it in your own environment.
If you’re the person people DM when something is broken in prod, or you’re building the cloud and platform everyone else ships on top of, Ship It Weekly is meant to be in your rotation.
Meet Brian Teller
Brian is the host of Ship It Weekly and of Kube Signals on KubeFM, and the builder behind Teller's Tech, a media and training platform focused on DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and the real-world work of keeping production systems alive. He also serves as an Industry Advisor at Cornell Tech, mentoring master's students through the Studio program.
Brian started Ship It Weekly because most tech news says what happened—but not always why it matters to the people on-call when the headline becomes their incident.