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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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TypeScript + OpenTelemetry: End-to-End Tracing from Browser to Node Without Guesswork

~6 min read · December 6, 2025 (Updated: December 8, 2025) · Free: No

How to follow a single user action from click to database query without grepping logs or guessing...

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Maintaining Apache Iceberg Tables: Compaction, Snapshots, Metadata and Orphan Files

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ITNEXT

· ~27 min read · August 23, 2026 (Updated: August 23, 2026) · Free: Yes

The complete guide to Iceberg table maintenance — the four operations every table requires, why...

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IaC in the SRE Lens: War Stories and the Future

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ITNEXT

· ~9 min read · October 13, 2025 (Updated: October 13, 2025) · Free: Yes

Introduction

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From Prompts to Loops: Building Autonomous Coding Agents

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ITNEXT

· ~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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The 12 Components of Google BigQuery

Google Cloud - Community

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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Debugging Apache Iceberg: A Production Guide

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ITNEXT

· ~27 min read · July 19, 2026 (Updated: July 19, 2026) · Free: Yes

Apache Iceberg gives you ACID semantics, schema evolution, partition evolution, and time travel...

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

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ITNEXT

· ~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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Kafka SASL Authentication: Usage & Best Practices

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

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Docker VPN & userspace Wireguard…

~6 min read · October 1, 2020 (Updated: March 31, 2023) · Free: Yes

Adventures building a vpn server

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GitHub Copilot Coding Agent: The Complete Architecture Behind Agentic DevOps at Enterprise Scale

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ITNEXT

· ~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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A new Kubernetes package installer

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ITNEXT

· ~8 min read · May 26, 2026 (Updated: May 26, 2026) · Free: Yes

Introduces a Kubernetes package installer designed for simple installation and post-installation...

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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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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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Ask vs guess culture

~8 min read · August 18, 2023 (Updated: August 29, 2023) · Free: No

When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!"...

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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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We Built Google Maps for Kubernetes.

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ITNEXT

· ~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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9 Apache Spark Alternatives You Should Know in 2026

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ITNEXT

· ~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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Deep Agents: LangChain Just Open-Sourced a Replica of Claude Code

Spillwave Solutions

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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Building an AI Native Developer Platform

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ITNEXT

· ~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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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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Understanding IAM Policy Evaluation Logic and Permission Boundaries in AWS

AWS in Plain English

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

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ITNEXT

· ~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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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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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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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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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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Ms Sql Server con docker-compose

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

Ejemplo practico

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Build an EKS cluster with Terraform

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ITNEXT

· ~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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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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Agents, Context, and the Real Work of AI Development

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ITNEXT

· ~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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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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FrontOps. How structured logging saves you from console output chaos

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ITNEXT

· ~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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[July 2026] AI Community — Activity Highlights and Achievements

Google Developer Experts

Google Developer Experts

· ~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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Kafka Oauth Bearer OIDC setup with Azure Event Hubs and Azure Active Directory

Towards Data Engineering

Towards Data Engineering

· ~7 min read · March 4, 2023 (Updated: February 26, 2025) · Free: Yes

You can read the initial Kafka Oauthbearer OIDC Keycloak setup tutorial to have a better...

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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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ITNEXT

· ~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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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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From Physics Events to Real-Time Analytics with Kafka Streams

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ITNEXT

· ~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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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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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'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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LiteLLM: Metrics, Traces, and VictoriaMetrics Stack Integration

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ITNEXT

· ~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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