<p>This week on <strong>Ship It Weekly</strong>, Brian looks at three different versions of the same problem: systems are getting faster, but human attention is still the bottleneck.</p><p>We start with curl shutting down their bug bounty program after getting flooded with low-quality “AI slop” reports. It’s not a “security vs maintainers” story, it’s an incentives and signal-to-noise story. When the cost to generate reports goes to zero, you basically DoS the people doing triage.</p><p>Next, AWS improved RDS Blue/Green Deployments to cut writer switchover downtime to typically ~5 seconds or less (single-region). That’s a big deal, but “fast switchover” doesn’t automatically mean “safe upgrade.” Your connection pooling, retries, and app behavior still decide whether it’s a blip or a cascade.</p><p>Third, Amazon ECR added cross-repository layer sharing. Sounds small, but if you’ve got a lot of repos and you’re constantly rebuilding/pushing the same base layers, this can reduce storage duplication and speed up pushes in real fleets.</p><p>Lightning round covers a practical Kubernetes clientcmd write-up, a solid “robust Helm charts” post, a traceroute-on-steroids style tool, and Docker Kanvas as another signal that vendors are trying to make “local-to-cloud” workflows feel less painful.</p><p>We wrap with Honeycomb’s interim report on their extended EU outage, and the part that always hits hardest in long incidents: managing engineer energy and coordination over multiple days is a first-class reliability concern.</p><p><strong>Links from this episode</strong></p><p>curl bug bounties shutdown <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20312">https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20312</a></p><p>RDS Blue/Green faster switchover <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-rds-blue-green-deployments-reduces-downtime/">https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-rds-blue-green-deployments-reduces-downtime/</a></p><p>ECR cross-repo layer sharing <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-ecr-cross-repository-layer-sharing/">https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-ecr-cross-repository-layer-sharing/</a></p><p>Kubernetes clientcmd apiserver access <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01/19/clientcmd-apiserver-access/">https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01/19/clientcmd-apiserver-access/</a></p><p>Building robust Helm charts <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.willmunn.xyz/devops/helm/kubernetes/2026/01/17/building-robust-helm-charts.html">https://www.willmunn.xyz/devops/helm/kubernetes/2026/01/17/building-robust-helm-charts.html</a></p><p>ttl tool <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://github.com/lance0/ttl">https://github.com/lance0/ttl</a></p><p>Docker Kanvas (InfoQ) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/docker-kanvas-cloud-deployment/">https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/docker-kanvas-cloud-deployment/</a></p><p>Honeycomb EU interim report <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://status.honeycomb.io/incidents/pjzh0mtqw3vt">https://status.honeycomb.io/incidents/pjzh0mtqw3vt</a></p><p>SRE Weekly issue #504 <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-504/">https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-504/</a></p><p></p><p>More episodes + details: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://shipitweekly.fm">https://shipitweekly.fm</a></p>