The DevOps Guy

@justdevopsguy True.

Unpopular opinion: most microservices should be a monolith. There, I said it.

@paganotoni Yes! Exactly this!

Totally agree! Without consideration of the company size and context, any good practice rapidly turns into a bad one.

@robj3d3 Yes!

Fable 5 has been extremely slow and dumb the last few days. This means Opus 5 is imminent.

@astuyve Little guy know as ‘inspect element’ in every browser beats this easily

Alright 55T (estimated 103T) is the highest AWS bill I've seen so far, who can beat it?

@Surendar__05 I’d go with Postgres. Just spin up a container on a DigitalOcean server

Be honest Which database is worth using in 2026?

@mehulmpt My recomendation: use the DigitalOcean inference platform. Thank me later

Current bill situation: Codex $100 Claude code $200 AWS $17,622,128,552 Openrouter $45 Not able to understand how to reduce my bill. Any help would be appreciated

@leoba_ck @ThePrimeagen Yes same here. So not much has changed for me with or without ai

@justdevopsguy @ThePrimeagen Some, yes, most of them, no

The new software dev cycle

Unpopular opinion: if your team is under 20 engineers, GitOps is overhead, not productivity.

@claudeai Big thanks to OpenAI for realizing Sol so anthropic could do this

Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. Demand for Fable has been challenging to predict, which is why we rolled it out to subscription plans in stages, extending access several times as we secured additional capacity.

@martiano hetzner have been very unpredictable with their too-many-to-count price increases lately

@justdevopsguy I mostly use Hetzner actually, just have some legacy apps, SES and S3 there atm

ok what do I do now?

what happened with fable? it's unusable, opus produces better code... time to switch to codex?

I've automated myself into a different kind of busy.

Unpopular opinion: your 'DevOps transformation' failed because you renamed the ops team and changed nothing else.

@pactechnologies Yes! Exactly this

@justdevopsguy The best infrastructure is the simplest one. Simplicity eliminates complexity.

Unpopular opinion: the best infrastructure is boring infrastructure. Stop chasing shiny tools.

@TTrimoreau 0 because I've got accepted to all the open-source programs

Be honest… How many AI subscriptions are you paying for?

@brockpierson stripe notifications

What's something that instantly makes you smile?

the x algo is so much better now