We're a 3-person tech team running production Kubernetes — So we built an AI SRE
We build a decentralized data platform. Client data never leaves their infrastructure — that's...
Build your own Managed Kubernetes Service on Proxmox with CAPI
Build your own KaaS platform on Proxmox with Cluster API.
Kubernetes configuration transformation orchestrators
Transformation is a powerful technique used by config-as-data tools, such as kustomize, kpt, and...
VictoriaTraces: Tracing, Observability, and OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry and Observability in theory, deploying VictoriaTraces on Kubernetes, integration...
Maintaining Apache Iceberg Tables: Compaction, Snapshots, Metadata and Orphan Files
The complete guide to Iceberg table maintenance — the four operations every table requires, why...
From Physical Servers to Virtual Kubernetes Clusters
Understanding the need for Kubernetes multi-tenancy with vCluster
I setup Kubermatic SecureGuard before it even existed
Kubermatic just released SecureGuard — an open-source secrets management platform built on...
Microsoft Foundry — AI Agent Service Deep Dive.
A builder's guide to tools, memory, workflows, evaluation, and observability in Foundry Agent...
Remote Code Development on Termux using VS Code and Neovim
Overview
Debugging Apache Iceberg: A Production Guide
Apache Iceberg gives you ACID semantics, schema evolution, partition evolution, and time travel...
Building My Own Self-Hosted dbt Cloud
What if you could get 80% of the dbt Cloud experience while keeping everything self-hosted?...
AI is Here to Stay: Navigating the Uncertainty as a Developer
It is hard to find someone in software development/IT whose job wasn't affected in some way by...
Benchmark, Profile, Prove: A 12x Go Performance Win
How pprof and benchstat found schema recompilation hiding in a Grafana Kafka plugin's hot path
Validating, scoring, and gating Kubernetes configuration after every change
Validating triggers provide the kind of guardrails that AI agents need in order to verify their...
Kafka SASL Authentication: Usage & Best Practices
A new Kubernetes package installer
Introduces a Kubernetes package installer designed for simple installation and post-installation...
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...
Tailwind Creator Found Claude Code 50% Slower Than Not Using an LLM
Creator of Tailwind CSS, Adam Wathan, tried using AI to help design some components for the first...
Is This a Tool, a Skill, or an Agent?
A map of the Generative AI stack, and how everything fits
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...
Shutdown Signals with Docker Entry-point Scripts
Shutdown signals are hard to understand to start. Even harder when you add Docker and Entry-point...
9 Apache Spark Alternatives You Should Know in 2026
Spark is not the only engine anymore. Here are the tools replacing it for compaction, analytics,...
Building an AI Native Developer Platform
Developers are the primary actors in a software engineering organization — and with that top of...
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...
Marp: Crafting Beautiful Presentations with Markdown
Effortless Slides, Powerful Impact
Getting Started With Astro — The Innovative Static Site Generator
An SSG for multiple frameworks, minimizing the JS we ship
What Is kubara? A GitOps-First Approach to Reusable Kubernetes Platforms
How kubara combines a declarative platform contract, a curated component catalog, and Argo CD to...
7 Data Compaction Engines for Apache Iceberg in 2026
Compaction used to be running Spark on cron jobs. Now we have smarter options: what are they, and...
LLMs on Kubernetes: The Easy Way
Sometimes, you just want to run a Large Language Model (LLM)… no Jupyter notebook, no training...
Mastering ArgoCD Management: Advanced GitOps Techniques for Flexibility and Scale
I made PostgreSQL INSERT operations 36 times faster in Python
You probably already know that rule number one when performing inserts is to use bulk inserts,...
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
Kafka Oauth Bearer setup with OpenID Connect(OIDC) and Keycloak
I had difficulties setting up a Kafka cluster to use SASL_PLAINTEXT/SASL_SSL OAUTHBEARER...
[July 2026] AI Community — Activity Highlights and Achievements
We love sharing the accomplishments of the Google AI communities over the month. We appreciate...
Kafka Oauth Bearer OIDC setup with Azure Event Hubs and Azure Active Directory
You can read the initial Kafka Oauthbearer OIDC Keycloak setup tutorial to have a better...
The New Agents Window in VS Code: A Technical Deep Dive into the Agent Host, Sessions, Hooks, and…
VS Code now ships a dedicated Agents window, a second window built for running and tracking AI...
AsciiDoc over Markdown
I taught myself HTML a long time ago, on a software called HotDog (Pro?). There wasn't such a...
Data Lakehouse: Infrastructure
fresha-data-engineering
· ~6 min read · September 19, 2025 (Updated: September 20, 2025) · Free: YesArchitecting a sophisticated Data Lakehouse platform on AWS, using EKS and cutting-edge...
ClickHouse Shard Rebalancing on Kubernetes: From Talk to Operator
TL;DR
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...