From Zero to Event-Driven: Migrating a Traditional CRUD App to Axon Framework
A Step-by-Step Refactoring Journey — Same Domain, Radically Different Architecture
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Mastering ArgoCD Management: Advanced GitOps Techniques for Flexibility and Scale
Running Production Minded Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi
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6 Tips to Writing a Great Helm Chart
Methods to make your helm chart go from good to great and improve the quality of life of every...
We're a 3-person tech team running production Kubernetes — So we built an AI SRE
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The 12 Components of Google BigQuery
Folks have been discussing BigQuery quite a bit these days, which is fantastic. But there's a...
AsciiDoc over Markdown
I taught myself HTML a long time ago, on a software called HotDog (Pro?). There wasn't such a...
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...
Finding & Exploiting Exposed Google API Keys for Bug $Bounties
Turn exposed Google API keys into real-world impact by accessing Gemini and other Google services...
MCP 2.0 Is Mostly Deletion. That's The Good Part.
Ok. MCP just shipped the biggest change since the day it launched, and the headline isn't a...
Your LLM Is Overqualified for Half Its Job: Jev for Cloud, DevOps and SRE Pipelines
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Transcribing any Youtube Video with Python: A Step-by-Step guide
Script that actually works
A Mental Model for Claude Code: Skills, Subagents, and Plugins
I spent weeks confused by the feature ecosystem. Here is the mental model I wish I had from the...
From Prompts to Loops: Building Autonomous Coding Agents
Why developers are moving from writing prompts to writing the systems that write prompts
AI coding agents write code fast. Why does review take so long?
How to prevent scope creep, unnecessary refactors, and oversized pull requests with a task brief...
We Built Google Maps for Kubernetes.
The first time you look at a map of Europe, you don't need a legend to know Italy is the boot-...
Building a Local 3-Node Apache Ignite Cluster with Docker Compose
A step-by-step guide to orchestrating, configuring, and querying an open-source, distributed...
Agent Data Protocol (ADP): The Missing Standard for Training LLM Agents
Training large language model (LLM) agents to act intelligently in real-world environments has...
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...
Debugging Apache Iceberg: A Production Guide
Apache Iceberg gives you ACID semantics, schema evolution, partition evolution, and time travel...
[July 2026] AI Community — Activity Highlights and Achievements
We love sharing the accomplishments of the Google AI communities over the month. We appreciate...
Benchmark, Profile, Prove: A 12x Go Performance Win
How pprof and benchstat found schema recompilation hiding in a Grafana Kafka plugin's hot path
Observability Is Converging. Humans Aren't the Only Ones Querying It Anymore
Putting metrics, logs, and traces into one columnar store, querying them together, and holding up...
Build an EKS cluster with Terraform
A simple infrastructure-as-code way, with custom VPC and ELB
Vibe Coding a Kubernetes Media Server: What I Learned About AI-First Engineering
Zero Kubernetes experience. One week of vibe coding. What AI gets right — and where it needed a...
Self-Hosted VPN with Headscale: One Mesh Network for Your Entire Homelab
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Microsoft Foundry — AI Agent Service Deep Dive.
A builder's guide to tools, memory, workflows, evaluation, and observability in Foundry Agent...
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...
From Physics Events to Real-Time Analytics with Kafka Streams
A lightweight stream processing application that transforms raw motion and collision events from...
OpenAI Codex CLI: From Broken Install to Multi-Agent Orchestration (Production Guide)
OpenAI Codex CLI Complete Guide from Installation to Multi-Agent Production Systems
Your Customers Shouldn't Be Your Alert System: A Deep Dive into MELT
Stop relying on users to report outages. Learn how unifying MELT, OpenTelemetry, & modern...
Life at the Port: Arrow, Parquet, Iceberg, and Polaris, Explained
A short story that walks through how these four Apache projects work together
GitHub Copilot Coding Agent: The Complete Architecture Behind Agentic DevOps at Enterprise Scale
How GitHub Is Replacing Solo Developers With Autonomous Agent Teams, and What That Means for Your...
ClickHouse Shard Rebalancing on Kubernetes: From Talk to Operator
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VictoriaTraces: Tracing, Observability, and OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry and Observability in theory, deploying VictoriaTraces on Kubernetes, integration...
Monitoring Apache Ignite 3 with Prometheus and Grafana via OpenTelemetry (OTLP)
A complete step-by-step guide to spinning up a 3-node Apache Ignite 3 cluster with Docker Compose...
Under the Hood: Using OpenTelemetry to Monitor Your AI Coding Agent
As you incorporate coding agents into your workflow, understanding how they behave becomes...
Understanding IAM Policy Evaluation Logic and Permission Boundaries in AWS
Use IAM Policy Evaluation Logic and Permission Boundaries to secure and delegate AWS access with...
Build a Local Kubernetes Platform with kubara, kind, and Argo CD
Create a local kind cluster, generate reviewable platform state with kubara, and let Argo CD...
Real Engineers Reviewed Komodor and Groundcover. Here's What They Didn't Think to Ask.
Two of the most popular Kubernetes management tools on the market have serious problems that...
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...
Ask vs guess culture
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!"...