Cursor Deletes PocketOS Prod DB, .de DNSSEC Outage, Bluesky Postmortem, Argo CD, and Copy Fail

Cursor Deletes PocketOS Prod DB, .de DNSSEC Outage, Bluesky Postmortem, Argo CD, and Copy Fail

Author: Teller's Tech - DevOps, SRE and Cloud Podcast May 8, 2026 Duration: 21:57

This episode of Ship It Weekly is about modern reliability getting squeezed from both directions. Old-school failures still hit hard, like broken DNSSEC, kernel privilege escalation bugs, and GitOps behavior changes. But newer automation layers add a second kind of risk, where AI agents, machine identity, and cloud control planes can do real damage fast when authority is too broad. Brian covers the Cursor and PocketOS production database wipe, the .de DNSSEC outage and Cloudflare’s response, Bluesky’s April outage postmortem, Argo CD v3.1.16 reaching end of life plus the v3.4.1 behavior change, Linux kernel CVE-2026-31431 under active exploitation, and why Google Cloud Agent Identity and AWS MCP Server GA both point to agents becoming first-class infrastructure actors.

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Links

Cursor / PocketOS production database wipe https://www.tellerstech.com/on-call-brief/2026-W19/

Cloudflare on the .de DNSSEC outage https://blog.cloudflare.com/de-tld-outage-dnssec/

Bluesky April 2026 outage postmortem https://pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/april-2026-outage-post-mortem-219ebg2

Argo CD releases: v3.1.16 final release and v3.4.1 behavior change https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/releases

Linux kernel CVE-2026-31431 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31431

AWS bulletin for CVE-2026-31431 https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/rss/2026-026-aws/

Google Cloud Agent Identity https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/whats-new-in-iam-security-governance-and-runtime-defense

AWS MCP Server is now generally available https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/the-aws-mcp-server-is-now-generally-available/

Cross-region disaster recovery for Amazon EKS using AWS Backup https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/cross-region-disaster-recovery-for-amazon-eks-using-aws-backup/

Google Ads new data retention policy starting June 1, 2026 https://ads-developers.googleblog.com/2026/05/new-data-retention-policy-for-google.html

This week’s On Call Brief https://www.tellerstech.com/on-call-brief/2026-W19/

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For anyone building or running modern systems, the sheer volume of news, tools, and incident reports can be overwhelming. Ship It Weekly cuts through that noise. This isn't a surface-level scan of headlines. Host Brian Teller digs into the latest significant outages, major software releases, and insightful post-mortems, focusing squarely on the practical implications for DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering work. Each episode of the podcast breaks down a couple of key stories, providing the crucial context often missing from tech news. You'll hear analysis that translates events into actionable insights, answering the "so what?" for your own infrastructure and processes. The show also includes a quick rundown of tools or updates actually worth your attention, saving you hours of browsing. The tone is direct and informed, favoring depth over breadth. It’s designed for engineers and technical leaders who need a concise, reliable filter for the week's most relevant developments. Listen to this podcast for a focused recap that prioritizes what actually matters, delivered without fluff. You get the news, plus the necessary interpretation to understand how it might affect your systems, your team, and your on-call rotation. It's a weekly briefing that respects your time while aiming to make you more effective.
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