#random - October 2026

Random question on Friday so I bet this is the right place.

You need to build CICD pipeline to compile, test, dockerize, sign and push to storage from scratch, no questions asked. It has to be generic to support multiple coding langs and their ecosystems in a single monorepo.
Approach is to solve it like a Software Engineer - you want to run CICID, compile, test and change locally, like any SWE would do, and then run it on GH Actions, GitLab or whatever, treating the SVC platform as a shim or mere adapter to your CICD at best.

What would you do? Am I insane nothing like it exists?

Hi Folks, I'm new here. I work at Splunk on the OTel team. I was hoping to get some feedback on a new open source project we just launched called Observability Studio (ObStudio), a local OpenTelemetry workspace that helps developers audit, add, and verify instrumentation. The goal is to make OTel simpler to implement and help more teams adopt it.

Here's a link to the repo and a getting started guide. If you play around with it, I'd love your feedback. Where does implementation still feel hardest? What would make ObStudio more useful in your workflow? If you don't have an observability backend you can mess around in, we have a very generous free edition of our observability platform here. Thanks! Have a great weekend!

Hey everyone, I’m looking for beta users for Latchkey, a tool for running GitHub Actions that also fixes failing builds automatically. It’s completely free, we just want feedback to improve the platform. DM me if you’re interested. latchkey.dev

Hi everyone,

We've been building TestRadius, a tool that uses Agentic AI to automate QA, turning natural language flows into autonomous UI and API tests.

We're still early and would really appreciate feedback from engineers here if you get a chance to try it out.

Early access is free: testradius.dev/login?mode=signup

Any thoughts, good or bad, would mean a lot!

Hi folks! 👋🏻

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Would be great to see some of this community there! 🙌

Interesting new feature

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