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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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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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Your LLM Is Overqualified for Half Its Job: Jev for Cloud, DevOps and SRE Pipelines

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· ~19 min read · September 25, 2026 (Updated: September 25, 2026) · Free: Yes

Filipe Motta · Jev, TypeSafe AI, DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, Kubernetes · 2026

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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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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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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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One Pane of Glass: Building a Real-Time LLM & Hardware Telemetry Dashboard

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· ~6 min read · July 22, 2026 (Updated: July 22, 2026) · Free: No

Leveraging llama.cpp telemetry and Linux kernel metrics for seamless monitoring

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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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Monitoring Apache Ignite 3 with Prometheus and Grafana via OpenTelemetry (OTLP)

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· ~6 min read · October 6, 2026 (Updated: October 6, 2026) · Free: No

A complete step-by-step guide to spinning up a 3-node Apache Ignite 3 cluster with Docker Compose...

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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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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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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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Is This a Tool, a Skill, or an Agent?

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· ~22 min read · June 20, 2026 (Updated: June 20, 2026) · Free: No

A map of the Generative AI stack, and how everything fits

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LiteLLM: Metrics, Traces, and VictoriaMetrics Stack Integration

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· ~13 min read · July 21, 2026 (Updated: July 21, 2026) · Free: Yes

Configuring metrics and traces from LiteLLM to VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaTraces. iteLLM...

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Why does Playwright MCP use so many tokens?

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· ~6 min read · September 30, 2026 (Updated: October 1, 2026) · Free: Yes

Playwright MCP&#39s accessibility snapshots pile up in context turn after turn. I benchmarked...

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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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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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I Ignored 30+ OpenClaw Alternatives Until OpenFang

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

Fully open-source Agent Operating System, written entirely in Rust, shipping as a single 32 MB...

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What Is kubara? A GitOps-First Approach to Reusable Kubernetes Platforms

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· ~10 min read · July 21, 2026 (Updated: July 21, 2026) · Free: Yes

How kubara combines a declarative platform contract, a curated component catalog, and Argo CD to...

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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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Inside Azure's AI Superfactory: How "Fairwater" Turns Every Gigawatt Into Useful Tokens.

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· ~8 min read · November 14, 2025 (Updated: November 14, 2025) · Free: No

A practical deep dive into the two-story liquid-cooled racks, flat AI fabric, and planet-scale AI...

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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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Claude Code: creating Kubernetes debugging AI Agent for VictoriaMetrics

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· ~32 min read · June 30, 2026 (Updated: June 30, 2026) · Free: Yes

Creating a Claude Code Marketplace and a Claude Code Plugin with a custom AI agent for Kubernetes...

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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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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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Build your own Managed Kubernetes Service on Proxmox with CAPI

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· ~14 min read · October 18, 2025 (Updated: December 22, 2025) · Free: Yes

Build your own KaaS platform on Proxmox with Cluster API.

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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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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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Understanding IAM Policy Evaluation Logic and Permission Boundaries in AWS

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AWS in Plain English

· ~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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Zero-Cost Non-Prod EKS: Scale to Zero Nodes with KEDA Cron + Karpenter

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Towards AWS

· ~17 min read · May 31, 2026 (Updated: June 1, 2026) · Free: No

Executive Summary

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Your Customers Shouldn't Be Your Alert System: A Deep Dive into MELT

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· ~16 min read · August 25, 2026 (Updated: September 2, 2026) · Free: Yes

Stop relying on users to report outages. Learn how unifying MELT, OpenTelemetry, & modern...

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Building a Local 3-Node Apache Ignite Cluster with Docker Compose

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· ~6 min read · October 2, 2026 (Updated: October 2, 2026) · Free: No

A step-by-step guide to orchestrating, configuring, and querying an open-source, distributed...

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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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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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MCP 2.0 Is Mostly Deletion. That's The Good Part.

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· ~14 min read · July 27, 2026 (Updated: July 28, 2026) · Free: Yes

Ok. MCP just shipped the biggest change since the day it launched, and the headline isn&#39t a...

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

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· ~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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A Golden Path for Terraform With AI Agents: Efficient, Responsible and Productive on Any Cloud

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· ~27 min read · September 28, 2026 (Updated: September 28, 2026) · Free: Yes

Filipe Motta · September 2026

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Microsoft Foundry's New Agent Stack, Explained in 12 Diagrams

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· ~17 min read · September 29, 2026 (Updated: September 29, 2026) · Free: No

Tool search that cuts input tokens by more than 97%, native voice agents, crash-resilient hosted...

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nb-cli: A Command-Line Interface for AI Agents and Notebook Automation

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Jupyter Blog

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

The rise of AI coding agents has transformed how we think about developer tools. Large language...

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Marp: Crafting Beautiful Presentations with Markdown

~6 min read · July 22, 2025 (Updated: October 15, 2025) · Free: No

Effortless Slides, Powerful Impact

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