Platform Engineer Seeking Open Source Ideas (Python/Golang)

Hi everyone,

I'm currently working as a Platform Engineer and looking to expand my knowledge and skills. I'm interested in contributing to an open source project — or even starting one of my own.

I have a strong background in Python and solid experience with Golang, and I'm open to ideas or recommendations for impactful projects I could join or initiate.

I'd appreciate any suggestions from the community!

Thanks in advance 🙏

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Vault HA Backend - raft vs postgres vs ?

Hi,

I'm looking for a bit of opinions and what kind of backends people are using for vault. For production and being able to do HA. We run on kubernetes.

I know raft/integrated is probably the most standard one and it's also what I've been running before. At my current place I've been thinking if postgres is not a good option though? It's already in our tech stack and imo very reliable. In our case Vault is not used THAT much so I doubt performance will be an issue. We also run on AWS so could use RDS for a hosted option. Backups and failover is pretty much out of the box in that case. Since integrated/raft storage is the recommended option I guess I need some good arguments not to use that though

Anyone else running on postgres and think it works well? Would love some pros and cons. Any other options are welcome as well

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Investment Banks - DevOps Experience?

I'm keen to hear the experience of those of you who work in DevOps/Infrastructure/Platform Engineering roles for investment banks. Do you enjoy it? Do they live up to the reputation of getting every last ounce out of you?

I'm at the final stage of interviewing for a Platform Engineering role with a London based investment bank (I'm based in another UK city). Seems like the company is flying, having went public last year, salary is 50% more than my current role and bonus starts at 20% (nothing guaranteed and all that!). I'm coming from a high flying fintech company who I enjoy working for but this job opportunity seems like 'an offer I can't refuse' kind of gig based on salary and bonus.

I'm only 2.5 years into the industry, and have been flying up the ranks after making a big career change. So the situation is great but with young kids, I don't want to sleep walk into 60+ hour weeks!

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Want to fail an azure pipeline job if in queue for more than 5 mins

I want to fail the azure pipeline job if it's in queue for more than 5 mins.

I tried using argument timeoutInminutes but it's not working.

How can I implement this logic? Thanks

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Everything You Need to Know About PostgreSQL Partitioning

In my company we make heavy use of partitioned tables and I've found that many engineers who are ostensibly owners of their database clusters are often missing knowledge about how partitioning works, how to manage it and how to make sure it's functioning properly. As part of the DevOps/SRE team, issues with partitioning often get thrown over to me to fix only after they've become unwieldy and require significant effort to restore.

And so I've written a blog post that I hope covers much of the general background knowledge needed to effectively utilise and manage partitioned tables as well as an overview of the common issues and mistakes to hopefully inform engineers on best practices and gotchas.

https://dyl.dog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-postgres-partitioning/

As DevOps engineers or if you otherwise work with databases in your company, do you make use of partitioning? Do you also find that it's a blind spot for engineers? I'm also interested if you have any other novel ways to keep them stable and operating smoothly.

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Do you use dogstatsd-ruby to send metrics to DD? New gem offers DSL based schema definition for custom metrics.

The gem "datadog-statsd-schema" —
https://github.com/kigster/datadog-statsd-schema is now available for beta testing and feedback.

The library is an intelligent adapter/wrapper for dogstatsd-ruby gem that supports defining a validation schema for custom metrics, their tags, and tag values. It prevents arbitrary tag names, and therefore also takes under control the typical explosion of custom metrics. This keeps the costs down while ensuring that the metrics and tags follow a predefined design.

Beta testers are needed and general feedback is welcome.

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Learn DevOps by Building: Free DevOps Labs, Challenges, and End-to-End Projects 🚀

Thanks to this community,

I’m excited to share [DevOps: Learn by Doing](https://github.com/dth99/DevOps-Learn-By-Doing), a community-driven GitHub repo that curates hands-on, project-based DevOps resources—from Linux to Kubernetes. If you’re tired of theory, videos, and ready to get your hands dirty, this is for you.

🔧 **Why “Learn by Doing”?**

* Every link is a lab, challenge, or full project.
* No long-winded tutorials—just step-by-step exercises.
* Build real skills: configure servers, containerize apps, set up CI/CD pipelines, deploy to the cloud, and implement observability.

✍️ **Stop reading. Start building:**
[https://github.com/dth99/DevOps-Learn-By-Doing](https://github.com/dth99/DevOps-Learn-By-Doing)

Contributors are welcome! Feel free to suggest new labs or improvements via issues and pull requests—let’s keep everything in one place.

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Spent 6 years becoming a fullstack dev. Can't find a job, freelancing is dying. Feeling lost.

I’ve been doing fullstack development for about 6 years now — learning, building, freelancing. I’ve invested so much time and energy into this path, but lately it just feels like I’m stuck or worse, sliding backward.

The job market’s brutal. I’ve applied to dozens (maybe hundreds) of jobs — tailored résumés, built a clean portfolio, added real projects to GitHub — and I’m barely getting callbacks. When I do, it's rejections after final rounds or ghosting.

Freelancing used to sustain me, but leads have dried up. I’m on Upwork, LinkedIn, and Twitter, trying to market myself. I’ve cold-pitched startups, rebuilt my site, niched down. Nothing’s landing. It’s getting harder to stay motivated when effort feels like it's going nowhere.

I’m not a beginner. I’ve shipped production apps, worked with clients, handled full-stack from front to backend, even DevOps when needed. But right now, it feels like none of that matters.

What’s especially discouraging about trying to build my own app to make a living is that it feels like the odds are stacked against me at every level. It’s not just about coding — it’s the financial pressure of going months (or longer) without income while hoping the product gains traction. Then there’s the legal side: setting up a business entity, handling taxes, worrying about liability, GDPR/compliance, or accidentally breaking some obscure regulation. On top of that, marketing is a whole other mountain — if the app doesn’t catch attention, all that work can quietly disappear into the void.

After pouring in years of effort to become a solid developer, it’s frustrating to realize that tech skills alone aren’t enough — and that “just build something” can come with risks that feel overwhelming when you’re already running on empty.

I’m trying to avoid sounding like I’m just venting. I’m still willing to adapt, to learn, to grind. I just honestly don’t know what to do next.

If anyone's been through this — pivoted successfully, found new traction, or just has advice — I’d genuinely appreciate it.

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Security Engineer Interview With DevOps

Hi guys. I have a security engineer interview coming up with 3 of the DevOps teams. Now I been security engineer for 3 years and have worked alot with DevOps team but want to ace this interview as its a great role. So my question is if any DevOps engineers in this community was to interview a security engineer. What kind of questions will you ask?

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What would you include in a CI/CD section of a Kubernetes Production Readiness Guide?

I'm putting together a Kubernetes Production Readiness Guide and have started compiling notes. One key section is CI/CD readiness, things like GitOps, image scanning, rollout strategies, etc.

What would you like to see covered in that area?
Would love to hear from others building production-grade clusters.

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Blog Post: The Work of Building for Other Engineers | Platform/SRE Mindset

Inspired by the reddit conversations lately, I have been thinking a lot about what it really means to be a software engineer who builds for other engineers. Especially when the job title says “SRE” or “DevOps/Platform,” but the actual work is always more than the tools.

So, I wrote about it: The Work of Building for Other Engineers

It has bunch of stories from my experience to demonstrate a picture. I'd love to hear if it resonates.

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“I Passed the Toughest AWS Exam — Here’s What It Took to Pass DOP-C02

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve successfully passed the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) exam!

This has been one of the most challenging yet rewarding certifications I’ve pursued. For those currently preparing, I wanted to share a few insights and tips that really helped me:

✅ My Study Strategy:
I used ITExamsLab as my primary resource, and to my surprise, about 80% of the questions on the actual exam were nearly identical to the ones I practiced there. This significantly boosted both my confidence and speed during the test.

🧠 Key Tips for Success:
1. Understand the Concepts, Not Just the Answers – Don’t just memorize; make sure you understand why each answer is correct. AWS loves scenario-based questions that test your real-world problem-solving ability.
2. Master Core AWS Services – Be especially strong in:
• CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, and CodeBuild
• CloudFormation & CDK
• EC2 Auto Scaling & Load Balancing
• CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Config
• IAM Policies & Roles (deep dive)
• OpsWorks, Systems Manager, and Elastic Beanstalk
3. Focus on CI/CD Pipelines – Know how to design, troubleshoot, and optimize continuous delivery pipelines.
4. Read the Questions Carefully – The exam often includes distractors. Focus on what the question is really asking before jumping to conclusions.
5. Practice with Timed Mock Exams – Simulate the real test environment. It helps with time management and mental stamina.

📚 Resources I Recommend:
• ITExamsLab (very close to the actual exam)
• AWS whitepapers & FAQs
• Tutorials Dojo (great for concept clarity)
• Hands-on practice in the AWS console

💪 Final Thoughts:
This exam is tough, but absolutely doable with consistency, focus, and the right preparation. Don’t just aim to pass — aim to learn and grow as an engineer.

Best of luck to anyone preparing — feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

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Don't know what to do with my career/learning path

Hi, first time posting here!

So, I'm currently working as the only DevOps at a start-up company, and thing are extremely disorganized. My immediate boss is micro-managing absolutely everything including my work, and I'm getting frustrated every day.

So, I'm currently looking for a new job, but don't know what to learn (in the meantime) to make my resume more attractive to recruiters.

My resume summary:

Internship: 1 yr and a few months at a big international electronics company
Cloud engineer: a few months in another big international company (left that job because the entire cloud team got laid off)
DevOps engineer: close to a year in another kinda big company
DevOps engineer: a year and a half (current company)
Certs: AWS CCP, english language cert (foreign speaker), and a few garbage certs from other jobs

To list a few thing related to my knowledge:

Working experience with a few cloud providers
Kubernetes beginner
CI/CD beginner/intermediate (close to beginner)
Fluent with Linux
Terraform beginner

Any and all comments will help me, I want hard truths and real advice.

Ciao.


EDIT: deleted some details, don't want to get put into a 1:1 with my boss hehe

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I automated my entire GitHub organization management with Terragrunt and OpenTofu

OK, a bit of self promotion. And sure this framework was build with help of Al, but so what? Using Google and then Stack Overflow felt cheeting 25 years ago, now completly normalised. More to come.

https://github.com/spolspol/terragrunt-github-org


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Any System Development engineers that can help me?

Hello, If you are a system development engineer L4 at Amazon, I have some questions about what the job is like? What the interview process is like and what is needed to prepare? I’m having trouble finding any information online regarding this role and the job description is very vague. Would appreciate any help! Thanks!

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Is it reasonable to ask for a raise in this context? Fully remote, in a startup, trained all of my team, became the SME for Kubernetes, been getting 10% or so raises for the past few years, became a senior.

On top of content in the title, the startup has treated me fairly well, with a bonus for staying on when my previous team left somewhat unrelated to the job, and many good raises since I started. However, every year I had verifiable reasons why I deserved a raise.

This year, I have felt meh about my performance personally because of a number of personal issues, and am going to continue having some. I have a major surgery that I will be out for at least a month and they have been completely understanding of it and pretty sure this will just be handled informally and I will just get my salary for the month.

Right now, I'm working on closing up a project before I go, and training our newest, 4th employee who has some K8s background, to bring him in line with what I've built so he can help support it.

Given my personal thoughts on my performance, I've not felt confident about asking, plus they're treating me well.

Might not be fully devops but it stills feels relevant with the context of how the work might be.

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Every dev has their “I’m losing my mind” week. This was mine.

Lost clipboard history copying a long-ass command.

Spent 30 mins debugging a typo.

VS code froze mid- edit during a live server tweak.

Realised I needed the same 20-line snippet for the 5th time this week.

Didn’t bookmark that perfect stack overflow answer and couldn’t find it again.

Tried Cursor. Switched to Blackbox. Then back. Ended up asking Chatgpt anyway.

Built a small internal tool to save my own sanity. No one asked. Still using it.


The thing "ai has made coding easy" is not that true. I mean it does help, but it, I can say as a dev, actually creates a mess of cognitive dissonance sometimes.

Btw, I’m not asking anything. Just wanted to share the chaos. Anyone else ride the same wave this week?

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DevOps resources I've gathered

Hey everyone!

I've been putting together a collection of DevOps learning resources and thought I'd share it with the community. It's got books, tutorials, documentation, and videos all organized to help with the learning journey.

Everything's free and I tried to pick resources that actually explain concepts well, not just random links.

Check it out if you're interested: https://github.com/Kaxxtik/Devops-Resources

Hope it helps someone out there! ⭐ if you find it useful.

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DevOps vs Data Engineer vs Cyber Security Engineer

Hi Fellow Developers, I am working in service based company for 4 years now, tagged as DevOps Engineer but since we all know about Service based company, the exposure in the tech is not that great. So now I'm planning to switch. But confused here as should I upskill myself in DevOps only or should I move to other field (making job AI proof).
Thing to note here is other that Azure DevOps (mostly classic pipeline), I do not have any much experience in DevOps (not much on K8s and docker also), so you can assume me as a fresher here (in terms of actual knowledge).
Since I'll starting from basics again, I'm confused as to move in same role or explore other. I heard a lot about cyberSec and data engineering, how they will be AI proof (even at times of AGI), so I thought on working on them. But how much company will expect from you if you change you domain with 4 year corporate experience?

Out of all the 3 profession : DevOps Engineer; Data Engineer; Cyber Security Engineer;
Which one should I pick in such a way that I can learn important stuff from them and be ready for interview (specially for Data engineering and cyber security as they are of different domain form my current job).

Also if there's any best resources I can learn from, please share that also.

[To moderator: if I made any community guidelines mistake, please update that in comment and not remove this post as I just need people's opinion here\]

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Did anyone received the GitHub Advanced Certificate voucher done via maintainer month security challenge ?

https://maintainermonth.github.com/security-challenge

Sorry typo GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS)
Did Anyone received it? Or Am I unlucky :(

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Is this a fair snapshot of Terraform challenges? Feedback wanted.

Hey folks,

I've been chatting with a bunch of DevOps folks - over 20 conversations - and put together a doc that summarizes the common Terraform issues teams run into at scale.

Here’s the PDF:
**👉 State of Terraform at Scale 2025**

This isn’t a polished whitepaper. It’s a messy list of what breaks, what frustrates people, and what workarounds they've come up with. Want your raw feedback:

What’s missing?
What’s exaggerated?
What do you completely disagree with?
What’s not painful for you but shows up here as a major problem?

No need to hold back - the more blunt, the better.

Appreciate any and all feedback. Thanks.

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