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Integrating Active Directory (AD) with Keycloak for user federation
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I setup Kubermatic SecureGuard before it even existed
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From Physical Servers to Virtual Kubernetes Clusters
Understanding the need for Kubernetes multi-tenancy with vCluster
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.
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Building a Production-Grade HA Kubernetes Cluster on a Homelab with $0 in Cloud Costs
How I turned four Proxmox nodes, some enterprise surplus drives, and an afternoon into a fully...
Running Production Minded Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi
Most Kubernetes clusters are built in environments with excess capacity.
Remote Code Development on Termux using VS Code and Neovim
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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
Kafka SASL Authentication: Usage & Best Practices
Docker VPN & userspace Wireguard…
Adventures building a vpn server
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...
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...
AI vs Data Science vs ML: The Choice That Could Make or Break Your Future
Why learning the wrong label in 2025 could cost you thousands, and how one quiet field is...
Ask vs guess culture
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!"...
Dynamic And Static Health Framework (DASH) At OVHCloud
Unified Quality Framework with Machine-Readable Reports and Transparent Governance
OpenAI Codex CLI: From Broken Install to Multi-Agent Orchestration (Production Guide)
OpenAI Codex CLI Complete Guide from Installation to Multi-Agent Production Systems
Micronaut vs Quarkus: The Battle for Supersonic JVM Apps
When it comes to building lightweight, high-performance Java applications, Micronaut and Quarkus...
The invisible crisis in AI Observability
Every time something breaks in production, most teams have no idea where to look, not just AI...
22 More Ways to Make Money with n8n (No Code, No Nonsense)
By very popular demand: after my first piece — "11 Ways to Make Money with n8n (Without...
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...
From Zero to Event-Driven: Migrating a Traditional CRUD App to Axon Framework
A Step-by-Step Refactoring Journey — Same Domain, Radically Different Architecture
Build an EKS cluster with Terraform
A simple infrastructure-as-code way, with custom VPC and ELB
nb-cli: A Command-Line Interface for AI Agents and Notebook Automation
The rise of AI coding agents has transformed how we think about developer tools. Large language...
Under the Hood: Using OpenTelemetry to Monitor Your AI Coding Agent
As you incorporate coding agents into your workflow, understanding how they behave becomes...
Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps as a Real-Time State Store
What if your services could react to configuration changes the moment they happen — no message...
Agents, Context, and the Real Work of AI Development
I sat in on a Buckeye AI session this week that covered reinforcement learning, evaluations,...
DevOps — Logging Standards and Best Practices
Logging is an art form, and log messages are one of the primary tools developers use to...
FrontOps. How structured logging saves you from console output chaos
One library can solve all your development problems and make it predictable
I Ignored 30+ OpenClaw Alternatives Until OpenFang
Fully open-source Agent Operating System, written entirely in Rust, shipping as a single 32 MB...
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...
A Mental Model for Claude Code: Skills, Subagents, and Plugins
I spent weeks confused by the feature ecosystem. Here is the mental model I wish I had from the...
From Physics Events to Real-Time Analytics with Kafka Streams
A lightweight stream processing application that transforms raw motion and collision events from...
Claude Code Agent Skills 2.0: From Custom Instructions to Programmable Agents
Skills are no longer instructions. They are programs.
This simple secret makes AI infinitely more intuitive.
Once you see it this way, you'll never unsee it.
The Best Developer Platform Might Be the One Nobody Opens
Building an AI Native Developer Platform on Kubernetes and Why It Is Becoming a Core Part of...
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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Argo CD App-of-apps and Configuration as Data
App-of-Apps is how a lot of teams run many Argo CD applications from one place — but what it...