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Two of the most popular Kubernetes management tools on the market have serious problems that...
Kubernetes configuration transformation orchestrators
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MCP 2.0 Is Mostly Deletion. That's The Good Part.
Ok. MCP just shipped the biggest change since the day it launched, and the headline isn't a...
I setup Kubermatic SecureGuard before it even existed
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The 12 Components of Google BigQuery
Folks have been discussing BigQuery quite a bit these days, which is fantastic. But there's a...
Our Kubernetes Cluster Was Costing $14,850/Month. We Moved to Fly.io for $680.
A war story about infrastructure hubris, a CFO's question nobody could answer, and the two...
From Physical Servers to Virtual Kubernetes Clusters
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One Pane of Glass: Building a Real-Time LLM & Hardware Telemetry Dashboard
Leveraging llama.cpp telemetry and Linux kernel metrics for seamless monitoring
AI is Here to Stay: Navigating the Uncertainty as a Developer
It is hard to find someone in software development/IT whose job wasn't affected in some way by...
Building My Own Self-Hosted dbt Cloud
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Inside Azure's AI Superfactory: How "Fairwater" Turns Every Gigawatt Into Useful Tokens.
A practical deep dive into the two-story liquid-cooled racks, flat AI fabric, and planet-scale AI...
Kafka SASL Authentication: Usage & Best Practices
GitHub Copilot Coding Agent: The Complete Architecture Behind Agentic DevOps at Enterprise Scale
How GitHub Is Replacing Solo Developers With Autonomous Agent Teams, and What That Means for Your...
Docker VPN & userspace Wireguard…
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A new Kubernetes package installer
Introduces a Kubernetes package installer designed for simple installation and post-installation...
This is why you should not learn to use Docker
You're a developer and you think you should "Learn to use Docker" ? Today, I'll...
Ask vs guess culture
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!"...
Best Jupyter Notebook Alternatives in 2025
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Shutdown Signals with Docker Entry-point Scripts
Shutdown signals are hard to understand to start. Even harder when you add Docker and Entry-point...
Testing Kairos as an OS for k8s cluster
The article and files to build/test Kairos OS can be found here:...
How to Manage Keycloak with the Command Line: No UI Required (release 26.7.1)
Step-by-step instructions for managing realms, clients, roles, and users straight from your terminal
Understanding IAM Policy Evaluation Logic and Permission Boundaries in AWS
Use IAM Policy Evaluation Logic and Permission Boundaries to secure and delegate AWS access with...
Getting Started With Astro — The Innovative Static Site Generator
An SSG for multiple frameworks, minimizing the JS we ship
7 Data Compaction Engines for Apache Iceberg in 2026
Compaction used to be running Spark on cron jobs. Now we have smarter options: what are they, and...
LLMs on Kubernetes: The Easy Way
Sometimes, you just want to run a Large Language Model (LLM)… no Jupyter notebook, no training...
Vibe Coding a Kubernetes Media Server: What I Learned About AI-First Engineering
Zero Kubernetes experience. One week of vibe coding. What AI gets right — and where it needed a...
Build an EKS cluster with Terraform
A simple infrastructure-as-code way, with custom VPC and ELB
Agent Data Protocol (ADP): The Missing Standard for Training LLM Agents
Training large language model (LLM) agents to act intelligently in real-world environments has...
Under the Hood: Using OpenTelemetry to Monitor Your AI Coding Agent
As you incorporate coding agents into your workflow, understanding how they behave becomes...
Mastering ArgoCD Management: Advanced GitOps Techniques for Flexibility and Scale
Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps as a Real-Time State Store
What if your services could react to configuration changes the moment they happen — no message...
DevOps — Logging Standards and Best Practices
Logging is an art form, and log messages are one of the primary tools developers use to...
Kafka Oauth Bearer setup with OpenID Connect(OIDC) and Keycloak
I had difficulties setting up a Kafka cluster to use SASL_PLAINTEXT/SASL_SSL OAUTHBEARER...
Finding & Exploiting Exposed Google API Keys for Bug $Bounties
Turn exposed Google API keys into real-world impact by accessing Gemini and other Google services...
The New Agents Window in VS Code: A Technical Deep Dive into the Agent Host, Sessions, Hooks, and…
VS Code now ships a dedicated Agents window, a second window built for running and tracking AI...
Claude Code Agent Skills 2.0: From Custom Instructions to Programmable Agents
Skills are no longer instructions. They are programs.
AsciiDoc over Markdown
I taught myself HTML a long time ago, on a software called HotDog (Pro?). There wasn't such a...
ClickHouse Shard Rebalancing on Kubernetes: From Talk to Operator
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LiteLLM: Metrics, Traces, and VictoriaMetrics Stack Integration
Configuring metrics and traces from LiteLLM to VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaTraces. iteLLM...