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IaC in the SRE Lens: War Stories and the Future

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· ~9 min read · October 13, 2025 (Updated: October 13, 2025) · Free: Yes

Introduction

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From Prompts to Loops: Building Autonomous Coding Agents

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· ~8 min read · June 28, 2026 (Updated: June 28, 2026) · Free: No

Why developers are moving from writing prompts to writing the systems that write prompts

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CI/CD Pipeline: Deploying a Hugo Blog to AWS with GitHub Actions + OIDC

JBrewInTheCloud

JBrewInTheCloud

· ~3 min read · April 16, 2025 (Updated: April 23, 2025) · Free: No

Overview

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The 12 Components of Google BigQuery

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Google Cloud - Community

· ~6 min read · July 11, 2017 (Updated: August 3, 2018) · Free: Yes

Folks have been discussing BigQuery quite a bit these days, which is fantastic. But there&#39s a...

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Is Node-RED Production Ready for Industrial Automation? Real-World PLC and Factory Deployments

~8 min read · March 10, 2026 (Updated: March 10, 2026) · Free: Yes

Walker Reynolds, Klaus Landsdorf, and Oriol Rius discuss how Node-RED is used in real Industry...

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Running Production Minded Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi

~5 min read · February 15, 2026 (Updated: February 15, 2026) · Free: Yes

Most Kubernetes clusters are built in environments with excess capacity.

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Remote Code Development on Termux using VS Code and Neovim

~3 min read · December 21, 2020 (Updated: December 24, 2021) · Free: No

Overview

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Kafka SASL_SSL docker setup with OAUTHBEARER Keycloak OIDC

Art of Data Engineering

Art of Data Engineering

· ~7 min read · July 1, 2023 (Updated: February 27, 2025) · Free: Yes

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Building My Own Self-Hosted dbt Cloud

~6 min read · June 25, 2026 (Updated: June 26, 2026) · Free: Yes

What if you could get 80% of the dbt Cloud experience while keeping everything self-hosted?...

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AI is Here to Stay: Navigating the Uncertainty as a Developer

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· ~7 min read · July 28, 2026 (Updated: July 29, 2026) · Free: No

It is hard to find someone in software development/IT whose job wasn&#39t affected in some way by...

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GitHub Copilot Coding Agent: The Complete Architecture Behind Agentic DevOps at Enterprise Scale

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· ~13 min read · February 20, 2026 (Updated: February 20, 2026) · Free: No

How GitHub Is Replacing Solo Developers With Autonomous Agent Teams, and What That Means for Your...

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This is why you should not learn to use Docker

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· ~3 min read · October 11, 2025 (Updated: October 11, 2025) · Free: Yes

You&#39re a developer and you think you should "Learn to use Docker" ? Today, I&#39ll...

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Tailwind Creator Found Claude Code 50% Slower Than Not Using an LLM

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According to Context

· ~4 min read · August 12, 2025 (Updated: August 12, 2025) · Free: No

Creator of Tailwind CSS, Adam Wathan, tried using AI to help design some components for the first...

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Is This a Tool, a Skill, or an Agent?

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· ~22 min read · June 20, 2026 (Updated: June 20, 2026) · Free: No

A map of the Generative AI stack, and how everything fits

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Ask vs guess culture

~8 min read · August 18, 2023 (Updated: August 29, 2023) · Free: No

When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!"...

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Dynamic And Static Health Framework (DASH) At OVHCloud

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· ~21 min read · November 7, 2025 (Updated: November 7, 2025) · Free: No

Unified Quality Framework with Machine-Readable Reports and Transparent Governance

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Best Jupyter Notebook Alternatives in 2025

Pathway to Data Analysis

Pathway to Data Analysis

· ~7 min read · June 21, 2025 (Updated: June 22, 2025) · Free: No

I&#39ve been using Jupyter Notebook since 2019, when it was introduced in a cloud computing...

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Micronaut vs Quarkus: The Battle for Supersonic JVM Apps

~3 min read · June 15, 2025 (Updated: June 15, 2025) · Free: No

When it comes to building lightweight, high-performance Java applications, Micronaut and Quarkus...

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We Built Google Maps for Kubernetes.

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· ~14 min read · July 15, 2026 (Updated: July 16, 2026) · Free: No

The first time you look at a map of Europe, you don&#39t need a legend to know Italy is the boot-...

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Creating a Tailwind CSS Portfolio Website with Claude AI

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Stackademic

· ~10 min read · September 14, 2024 (Updated: November 16, 2024) · Free: No

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Building an AI Native Developer Platform

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· ~10 min read · June 12, 2026 (Updated: June 12, 2026) · Free: Yes

Developers are the primary actors in a software engineering organization — and with that top of...

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The invisible crisis in AI Observability

~4 min read · July 3, 2026 (Updated: July 3, 2026) · Free: Yes

Every time something breaks in production, most teams have no idea where to look, not just AI...

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22 More Ways to Make Money with n8n (No Code, No Nonsense)

~6 min read · October 2, 2025 (Updated: October 11, 2025) · Free: No

By very popular demand: after my first piece — "11 Ways to Make Money with n8n (Without...

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Understanding IAM Policy Evaluation Logic and Permission Boundaries in AWS

AWS in Plain English

AWS in Plain English

· ~6 min read · November 7, 2024 (Updated: November 13, 2024) · Free: No

Use IAM Policy Evaluation Logic and Permission Boundaries to secure and delegate AWS access with...

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Marp: Crafting Beautiful Presentations with Markdown

~6 min read · July 22, 2025 (Updated: October 15, 2025) · Free: No

Effortless Slides, Powerful Impact

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Getting Started With Astro — The Innovative Static Site Generator

JavaScript in Plain English

JavaScript in Plain English

· ~5 min read · July 17, 2021 (Updated: January 6, 2022) · Free: No

An SSG for multiple frameworks, minimizing the JS we ship

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From Zero to Event-Driven: Migrating a Traditional CRUD App to Axon Framework

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· ~8 min read · June 2, 2026 (Updated: June 2, 2026) · Free: No

A Step-by-Step Refactoring Journey — Same Domain, Radically Different Architecture

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CloudnativePG: postgres database the modern way

~6 min read · March 1, 2026 (Updated: March 1, 2026) · Free: Yes

For years, running a highly available (HA) PostgreSQL cluster was considered one of the...

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LLMs on Kubernetes: The Easy Way

~7 min read · February 27, 2026 (Updated: February 28, 2026) · Free: Yes

Sometimes, you just want to run a Large Language Model (LLM)… no Jupyter notebook, no training...

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Vibe Coding a Kubernetes Media Server: What I Learned About AI-First Engineering

~15 min read · March 25, 2026 (Updated: March 25, 2026) · Free: Yes

Zero Kubernetes experience. One week of vibe coding. What AI gets right — and where it needed a...

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Agent Data Protocol (ADP): The Missing Standard for Training LLM Agents

~4 min read · November 4, 2025 (Updated: November 4, 2025) · Free: Yes

Training large language model (LLM) agents to act intelligently in real-world environments has...

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Under the Hood: Using OpenTelemetry to Monitor Your AI Coding Agent

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· ~7 min read · June 2, 2026 (Updated: June 3, 2026) · Free: No

As you incorporate coding agents into your workflow, understanding how they behave becomes...

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I made PostgreSQL INSERT operations 36 times faster in Python

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· ~3 min read · October 3, 2024 (Updated: May 20, 2026) · Free: Yes

You probably already know that rule number one when performing inserts is to use bulk inserts,...

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Agents, Context, and the Real Work of AI Development

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· ~7 min read · December 7, 2025 (Updated: December 8, 2025) · Free: No

I sat in on a Buckeye AI session this week that covered reinforcement learning, evaluations,...

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Kafka Oauth Bearer setup with OpenID Connect(OIDC) and Keycloak

Art of Data Engineering

Art of Data Engineering

· ~5 min read · February 26, 2023 (Updated: February 27, 2025) · Free: Yes

I had difficulties setting up a Kafka cluster to use SASL_PLAINTEXT/SASL_SSL OAUTHBEARER...

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FrontOps. How structured logging saves you from console output chaos

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· ~8 min read · October 24, 2025 (Updated: October 25, 2025) · Free: No

One library can solve all your development problems and make it predictable

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I Ignored 30+ OpenClaw Alternatives Until OpenFang

~9 min read · March 9, 2026 (Updated: March 9, 2026) · Free: No

Fully open-source Agent Operating System, written entirely in Rust, shipping as a single 32 MB...

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The New Agents Window in VS Code: A Technical Deep Dive into the Agent Host, Sessions, Hooks, and…

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· ~14 min read · August 3, 2026 (Updated: August 3, 2026) · Free: No

VS Code now ships a dedicated Agents window, a second window built for running and tracking AI...

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A Mental Model for Claude Code: Skills, Subagents, and Plugins

Level Up Coding

Level Up Coding

· ~12 min read · March 4, 2026 (Updated: March 4, 2026) · Free: Yes

I spent weeks confused by the feature ecosystem. Here is the mental model I wish I had from the...

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The Best Developer Platform Might Be the One Nobody Opens

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· ~24 min read · June 9, 2026 (Updated: June 9, 2026) · Free: Yes

Building an AI Native Developer Platform on Kubernetes and Why It Is Becoming a Core Part of...

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This simple secret makes AI infinitely more intuitive.

AI Advances

AI Advances

· ~6 min read · December 13, 2025 (Updated: December 14, 2025) · Free: No

Once you see it this way, you&#39ll never unsee it.

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AsciiDoc over Markdown

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· ~6 min read · October 30, 2025 (Updated: November 1, 2025) · Free: Yes

I taught myself HTML a long time ago, on a software called HotDog (Pro?). There wasn&#39t such a...

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Transcribing any Youtube Video with Python: A Step-by-Step guide

~5 min read · July 23, 2024 (Updated: November 20, 2024) · Free: Yes

Script that actually works

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ClickHouse Shard Rebalancing on Kubernetes: From Talk to Operator

~6 min read · April 16, 2026 (Updated: April 16, 2026) · Free: Yes

TL;DR

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Argo CD App-of-apps and Configuration as Data

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· ~8 min read · July 15, 2026 (Updated: July 15, 2026) · Free: Yes

App-of-Apps is how a lot of teams run many Argo CD applications from one place — but what it...

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