April 8, 2025: The VPC Show
Getting back into the swing of things with The VPC Show. Couple things going on that we think are pretty exciting.
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So certainly a lot of talk around Vibe Coding and we have probably all seen some of the issues people are having when non-coders generate a bunch of code and don't know what they are doing. However in using this some on some random personal projects I really see a lot of value. Being able to link in multiple different files and run it just allows it to operate really cleanly.
I still think there is the need for a developer to help guide the AI and help think through things, but overall leveraged properly this could really help to move some of the more tedious parts of coding along.
DevOps and AI
So I had the opportunity to chat with Esteban at CloudShip this week about how he is trying to integrate some AI elements into DevOps processes. Overall seeing how it could potentially be used in some incident response items had me highly intrigued. Allowing it to query for logs and pull metrics could help to grab a lot of data, condense it, and focus the research at the beginning. Overall to me it would take some time before I really wanted to just let it start doing things, but it would be immensely helpful from a perspective of grabbing a lot of data.
They aren't live yet, but you can sign up to be the first to know on their website:
CloudShip Team
Docker Hub New Rate Limits
So if you haven't heard Docker Hub is beginning to limit pulls to 10/hour/ip address for unauthenticated pulls. This is a major hit to a lot of things and can certainly slow down a lot of deployments.
This has overall increased me using Harbor as a slight pull-through cache option. This provides the ability for me to not have to go to Docker Hub all the time and also cache images. I have always ran one on and off over the years, but it is even more important now for me.
