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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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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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Building a Production-Grade Apache Spark Platform on Kubernetes

Towards Data Engineering

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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Mastering ArgoCD Management: Advanced GitOps Techniques for Flexibility and Scale

~6 min read · September 19, 2023 (Updated: September 26, 2023) · Free: Yes

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

Write A Catalyst

Write A Catalyst

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

The United State of Gaza?

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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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7 Data Compaction Engines for Apache Iceberg in 2026

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ITNEXT

· ~16 min read · July 10, 2026 (Updated: July 12, 2026) · Free: Yes

Compaction used to be running Spark on cron jobs. Now we have smarter options: what are they, 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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Deep Agents: LangChain Just Open-Sourced a Replica of Claude Code

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Spillwave Solutions

· ~6 min read · March 24, 2026 (Updated: April 8, 2026) · Free: No

Exploring Deep Agents: An Open-Source LangChain Framework for Coding Agents Inspired by Claude Code

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

DataDrivenInvestor

DataDrivenInvestor

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

Towards AI

Towards AI

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

Skills are no longer instructions. They are programs.

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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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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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Unlock WhatsApp Messaging in Home Assistant with Green API Custom Notifier

~4 min read · April 2, 2024 (Updated: November 29, 2024) · Free: Yes

green-api is a service that allows us to send and receive text, photo and video using stable...

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Validating, scoring, and gating Kubernetes configuration after every change

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· ~7 min read · July 29, 2026 (Updated: July 30, 2026) · Free: Yes

Validating triggers provide the kind of guardrails that AI agents need in order to verify their...

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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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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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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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Deploying SageMaker Endpoints With CloudFormation

TDS Archive

TDS Archive

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

Infrastructure As Code With SageMaker

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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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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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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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Keycloak Clustering Made Easy for Production (release 26.7.3)

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

Exploring the new JDBC-PING default transport stack with Docker Compose for Local Clustering

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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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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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Life at the Port: Arrow, Parquet, Iceberg, and Polaris, Explained

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· ~5 min read · September 14, 2026 (Updated: September 14, 2026) · Free: No

A short story that walks through how these four Apache projects work together

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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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Kafka SASL Authentication: Usage & Best Practices

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

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

Stackademic

Stackademic

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

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ITNEXT

· ~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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If You Thought Claude Max 20x Meant 20x Weekly Usage — You Were Wrong

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ITNEXT

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

Paying double for four times the usage sounded like a no-brainer… until you realized what limit...

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Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps as a Real-Time State Store

Sahibinden Technology

Sahibinden Technology

· ~7 min read · April 16, 2026 (Updated: April 16, 2026) · Free: Yes

What if your services could react to configuration changes the moment they happen — no message...

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

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ITNEXT

· ~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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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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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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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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celld: Durable Objects, Unbundled

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· ~11 min read · September 15, 2026 (Updated: September 15, 2026) · Free: Yes

celld, a new open-source project from Deno, reimplements Cloudflare&#39s Durable Objects model on...

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