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

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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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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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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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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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Integrating Active Directory (AD) with Keycloak for user federation

~2 min read · June 8, 2024 (Updated: November 23, 2024) · Free: Yes

Integrating Active Directory (AD) with Keyclgoak for user federation involves setting up Keycloak...

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Real Engineers Reviewed Komodor and Groundcover. Here's What They Didn't Think to Ask.

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· ~9 min read · June 4, 2026 (Updated: June 4, 2026) · Free: No

Two of the most popular Kubernetes management tools on the market have serious problems that...

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VictoriaTraces: Tracing, Observability, and OpenTelemetry

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

OpenTelemetry and Observability in theory, deploying VictoriaTraces on Kubernetes, integration...

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IaC in the SRE Lens: War Stories and the Future

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· ~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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· ~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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CI/CD Pipeline: Deploying a Hugo Blog to AWS with GitHub Actions + OIDC

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JBrewInTheCloud

· ~3 min read · April 16, 2025 (Updated: April 23, 2025) · Free: No

Overview

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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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Microsoft Foundry — AI Agent Service Deep Dive.

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· ~8 min read · December 13, 2025 (Updated: December 13, 2025) · Free: No

A builder&#39s guide to tools, memory, workflows, evaluation, and observability in Foundry Agent...

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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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· ~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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Kafka SASL_SSL docker setup with OAUTHBEARER Keycloak OIDC

Art of Data Engineering

Art of Data Engineering

· ~7 min read · July 1, 2023 (Updated: February 27, 2025) · Free: Yes

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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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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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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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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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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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Best Jupyter Notebook Alternatives in 2025

Pathway to Data Analysis

Pathway to Data Analysis

· ~7 min read · June 21, 2025 (Updated: June 22, 2025) · Free: No

I&#39ve been using Jupyter Notebook since 2019, when it was introduced in a cloud computing...

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How to Manage Keycloak with the Command Line: No UI Required (release 26.7.1)

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· ~9 min read · August 18, 2026 (Updated: August 19, 2026) · Free: No

Step-by-step instructions for managing realms, clients, roles, and users straight from your terminal

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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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22 More Ways to Make Money with n8n (No Code, No Nonsense)

~6 min read · October 2, 2025 (Updated: October 11, 2025) · Free: No

By very popular demand: after my first piece — "11 Ways to Make Money with n8n (Without...

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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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Deploying SageMaker Endpoints With CloudFormation

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TDS Archive

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

Infrastructure As Code With SageMaker

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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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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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Build an EKS cluster with Terraform

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

Jupyter Blog

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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I made PostgreSQL INSERT operations 36 times faster in Python

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· ~3 min read · October 3, 2024 (Updated: May 20, 2026) · Free: Yes

You probably already know that rule number one when performing inserts is to use bulk inserts,...

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DevOps — Logging Standards and Best Practices

~8 min read · June 25, 2024 (Updated: November 22, 2024) · Free: No

Logging is an art form, and log messages are one of the primary tools developers use to...

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

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· ~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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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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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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Data Lakehouse: Infrastructure

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fresha-data-engineering

· ~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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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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Argo CD App-of-apps and Configuration as Data

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· ~8 min read · July 15, 2026 (Updated: July 15, 2026) · Free: Yes

App-of-Apps is how a lot of teams run many Argo CD applications from one place — but what it...

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