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~9 min read · November 11, 2017 (Updated: December 7, 2022) · Free: Yes

I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just "another tool in your machine...

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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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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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Getting Started With Astro — The Innovative Static Site Generator

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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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Backup and Restore MySQL 8 Database with XtraBackup

~2 min read · November 13, 2019 (Updated: December 12, 2021) · Free: Yes

What is XtraBackup?

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Benchmark, Profile, Prove: A 12x Go Performance Win

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· ~13 min read · July 29, 2026 (Updated: July 29, 2026) · Free: Yes

How pprof and benchstat found schema recompilation hiding in a Grafana Kafka plugin&#39s hot path

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Stop AI from Hallucinating Your Kubernetes YAML

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· ~6 min read · October 18, 2025 (Updated: October 18, 2025) · Free: Yes

Using a vCluster YAML MCP Server

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Trump's Gaza Proposal: A Negotiation Tactic for Real Change?

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Write A Catalyst

· ~2 min read · February 5, 2025 (Updated: February 10, 2025) · Free: Yes

The United State of Gaza?

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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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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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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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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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The 12 Components of Google BigQuery

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· ~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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Kafka SASL Authentication: Usage & Best Practices

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

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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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Building a Production-Grade Apache Spark Platform on Kubernetes

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Towards Data Engineering

· ~29 min read · July 10, 2026 (Updated: July 11, 2026) · Free: Yes

Deploying the Spark Operator, Building Custom Images, Running Structured Streaming through Helm,...

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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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Data Lakehouse: Infrastructure

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· ~6 min read · September 19, 2025 (Updated: September 20, 2025) · Free: Yes

Architecting a sophisticated Data Lakehouse platform on AWS, using EKS and cutting-edge...

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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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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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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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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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From Physics Events to Real-Time Analytics with Kafka Streams

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· ~7 min read · May 21, 2026 (Updated: May 21, 2026) · Free: No

A lightweight stream processing application that transforms raw motion and collision events from...

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[July 2026] AI Community — Activity Highlights and Achievements

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· ~10 min read · August 24, 2026 (Updated: August 24, 2026) · Free: Yes

We love sharing the accomplishments of the Google AI communities over the month. We appreciate...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Creating a Tailwind CSS Portfolio Website with Claude AI

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

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6 Tips to Writing a Great Helm Chart

~6 min read · July 3, 2023 (Updated: July 5, 2023) · Free: Yes

Methods to make your helm chart go from good to great and improve the quality of life of every...

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Self-Hosted VPN with Headscale: One Mesh Network for Your Entire Homelab

~4 min read · February 19, 2026 (Updated: February 19, 2026) · Free: Yes

(Part 1/2)

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

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· ~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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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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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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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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Ms Sql Server con docker-compose

~1 min read · November 29, 2022 (Updated: November 29, 2022) · Free: Yes

Ejemplo practico

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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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Real Engineers Reviewed Komodor and Groundcover. Here's What They Didn't Think to Ask.

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· ~9 min read · June 4, 2026 (Updated: June 4, 2026) · Free: No

Two of the most popular Kubernetes management tools on the market have serious problems that...

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AI coding agents write code fast. Why does review take so long?

~11 min read · October 1, 2026 (Updated: October 1, 2026) · Free: No

How to prevent scope creep, unnecessary refactors, and oversized pull requests with a task brief...

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