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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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AI vs Data Science vs ML: The Choice That Could Make or Break Your Future

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· ~10 min read · October 13, 2025 (Updated: October 13, 2025) · Free: No

Why learning the wrong label in 2025 could cost you thousands, and how one quiet field is...

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Building a Production-Grade HA Kubernetes Cluster on a Homelab with $0 in Cloud Costs

~7 min read · March 28, 2026 (Updated: March 29, 2026) · Free: Yes

How I turned four Proxmox nodes, some enterprise surplus drives, and an afternoon into a fully...

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Kafka SASL Authentication: Usage & Best Practices

~8 min read · August 19, 2025 (Updated: August 20, 2025) · Free: Yes

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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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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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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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Deploying SageMaker Endpoints With CloudFormation

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· ~5 min read · August 16, 2022 (Updated: August 17, 2022) · Free: No

Infrastructure As Code With SageMaker

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Build a Local Kubernetes Platform with kubara, kind, and Argo CD

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· ~8 min read · August 4, 2026 (Updated: August 4, 2026) · Free: Yes

Create a local kind cluster, generate reviewable platform state with kubara, and let Argo CD...

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Ansible AWX: Infrastructure Automation on Top of Kubernetes

~5 min read · March 16, 2026 (Updated: March 16, 2026) · Free: Yes

This article documents our team&#39s research journey exploring Ansible AWX as an infrastructure...

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VictoriaTraces: Tracing, Observability, and OpenTelemetry

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· ~16 min read · July 10, 2026 (Updated: July 10, 2026) · Free: Yes

OpenTelemetry and Observability in theory, deploying VictoriaTraces on Kubernetes, integration...

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Kubernetes configuration transformation orchestrators

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· ~7 min read · August 6, 2026 (Updated: August 6, 2026) · Free: Yes

Transformation is a powerful technique used by config-as-data tools, such as kustomize, kpt, and...

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Building an AI Agent That Runs Your SRE Operations — What I Learned, What Works, and How You Can Do…

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· ~13 min read · April 8, 2026 (Updated: April 9, 2026) · Free: Yes

Every SRE team has the same story. Here is how we change the ending.

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Our Kubernetes Cluster Was Costing $14,850/Month. We Moved to Fly.io for $680.

Level Up Coding

Level Up Coding

· ~7 min read · February 25, 2026 (Updated: February 25, 2026) · Free: No

A war story about infrastructure hubris, a CFO&#39s question nobody could answer, and the two...

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Observability Is Converging. Humans Aren't the Only Ones Querying It Anymore

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· ~11 min read · August 17, 2026 (Updated: August 17, 2026) · Free: Yes

Putting metrics, logs, and traces into one columnar store, querying them together, and holding up...

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From Physical Servers to Virtual Kubernetes Clusters

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· ~10 min read · October 23, 2025 (Updated: October 24, 2025) · Free: Yes

Understanding the need for Kubernetes multi-tenancy with vCluster

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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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Understanding IAM Policy Evaluation Logic and Permission Boundaries in AWS

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· ~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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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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Open Data Lakehouse: A Practical Guide

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· ~23 min read · August 19, 2026 (Updated: August 19, 2026) · Free: Yes

The architecture, components, and operational reality of building a production open data...

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9 Apache Spark Alternatives You Should Know in 2026

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· ~18 min read · August 2, 2026 (Updated: August 2, 2026) · Free: Yes

Spark is not the only engine anymore. Here are the tools replacing it for compaction, analytics,...

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Microsoft Foundry — AI Agent Service Deep Dive.

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· ~8 min read · December 13, 2025 (Updated: December 13, 2025) · Free: No

A builder&#39s guide to tools, memory, workflows, evaluation, and observability in Foundry Agent...

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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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I setup Kubermatic SecureGuard before it even existed

~8 min read · March 24, 2026 (Updated: March 24, 2026) · Free: Yes

Kubermatic just released SecureGuard — an open-source secrets management platform built on...

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Integrating Active Directory (AD) with Keycloak for user federation

~2 min read · June 8, 2024 (Updated: November 23, 2024) · Free: Yes

Integrating Active Directory (AD) with Keyclgoak for user federation involves setting up Keycloak...

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Kafka SASL_SSL docker setup with OAUTHBEARER Keycloak OIDC

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Art of Data Engineering

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

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Shutdown Signals with Docker Entry-point Scripts

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· ~5 min read · August 17, 2020 (Updated: January 2, 2026) · Free: Yes

Shutdown signals are hard to understand to start. Even harder when you add Docker and Entry-point...

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Build an EKS cluster with Terraform

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· ~13 min read · September 4, 2020 (Updated: July 1, 2025) · Free: No

A simple infrastructure-as-code way, with custom VPC and ELB

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OpenAI Codex CLI: From Broken Install to Multi-Agent Orchestration (Production Guide)

~16 min read · November 18, 2025 (Updated: November 26, 2025) · Free: No

OpenAI Codex CLI Complete Guide from Installation to Multi-Agent Production Systems

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Claude Code Agent Skills 2.0: From Custom Instructions to Programmable Agents

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· ~17 min read · March 9, 2026 (Updated: March 14, 2026) · Free: No

Skills are no longer instructions. They are programs.

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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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Finding & Exploiting Exposed Google API Keys for Bug $Bounties

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InfoSec Write-ups

· ~13 min read · May 23, 2026 (Updated: May 23, 2026) · Free: No

Turn exposed Google API keys into real-world impact by accessing Gemini and other Google services...

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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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We're a 3-person tech team running production Kubernetes — So we built an AI SRE

~9 min read · April 17, 2026 (Updated: April 17, 2026) · Free: Yes

We build a decentralized data platform. Client data never leaves their infrastructure — that&#39s...

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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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Apache Iceberg Compaction Best Practices

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· ~31 min read · September 6, 2026 (Updated: September 6, 2026) · Free: Yes

A production guide to compaction strategies, parameter tuning, maintenance sequencing, and...

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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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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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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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GitOps with Terraform using tofu-controller: Grafana and Hashicorp Vault as Code

~5 min read · January 21, 2026 (Updated: January 21, 2026) · Free: Yes

Why GitOps shouldn&#39t stop at Kubernetes.

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

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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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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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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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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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