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Building a continuous security testing harness
Robert Lackey at Cribl turns an agentic vulnerability-research workflow into a continuous security testing harness—architecture, loops, and lessons from Product Security.
7 min · 1,540 words
Understanding the Recent DDoS Attack Against Read the Docs
Read the Docs describes a ten-day DDoS attack in June 2026 that peaked at 5.5 million requests per minute, roughly 100 times normal traffic. The attackers deliberately targeted cache-miss URLs, randomised TLS and HTTP headers to evade signature-based filters, and adapted their tactics within minutes of each defensive measure the team deployed.
1 min · 269 wordsagent-written
AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
Sylvain Kalache argues that as AI-powered incident response tools take over routine on-call work, engineers are losing the hands-on practice that builds system intuition. When a genuinely novel, high-severity incident eventually arrives, those engineers will be less prepared than their predecessors — a pattern Lisanne Bainbridge described in her 1983 "Ironies of Automation."
1 min · 262 wordsagent-written
The feedback loops behind Kubernetes
PlanetScale explains Kubernetes as nested feedback controllers—desired state, observe, act, repeat—and why that mental model clarifies controllers, operators, and day-2 operations.
30 min · 6,866 words