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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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ITNEXT

· ~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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Build your own Managed Kubernetes Service on Proxmox with CAPI

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ITNEXT

· ~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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Kubernetes configuration transformation orchestrators

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ITNEXT

· ~7 min read · August 6, 2026 (Updated: August 6, 2026) · Free: Yes

Transformation is a powerful technique used by config-as-data tools, such as kustomize, kpt, and...

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VictoriaTraces: Tracing, Observability, and OpenTelemetry

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ITNEXT

· ~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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ITNEXT

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

Introduction

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From Physical Servers to Virtual Kubernetes Clusters

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ITNEXT

· ~10 min read · October 23, 2025 (Updated: October 24, 2025) · Free: Yes

Understanding the need for Kubernetes multi-tenancy with vCluster

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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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Remote Code Development on Termux using VS Code and Neovim

~3 min read · December 21, 2020 (Updated: December 24, 2021) · Free: No

Overview

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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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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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Validating, scoring, and gating Kubernetes configuration after every change

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ITNEXT

· ~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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AI Agents Don't Need Smarter Retrieval. They Need a Config Database

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ITNEXT

· ~5 min read · July 28, 2026 (Updated: July 30, 2026) · Free: Yes

Today&#39s AI agents are smart enough. They fail at Kubernetes chores anyway, because the answers...

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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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Tailwind Creator Found Claude Code 50% Slower Than Not Using an LLM

According to Context

According to Context

· ~4 min read · August 12, 2025 (Updated: August 12, 2025) · Free: No

Creator of Tailwind CSS, Adam Wathan, tried using AI to help design some components for the first...

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

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ITNEXT

· ~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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ClickHouse Shard Rebalancing on Kubernetes: From Talk to Operator

~6 min read · April 16, 2026 (Updated: April 16, 2026) · Free: Yes

TL;DR

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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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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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Shutdown Signals with Docker Entry-point Scripts

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ITNEXT

· ~5 min read · August 17, 2020 (Updated: January 2, 2026) · Free: Yes

Shutdown signals are hard to understand to start. Even harder when you add Docker and Entry-point...

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The invisible crisis in AI Observability

~4 min read · July 3, 2026 (Updated: July 3, 2026) · Free: Yes

Every time something breaks in production, most teams have no idea where to look, not just AI...

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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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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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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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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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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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Under the Hood: Using OpenTelemetry to Monitor Your AI Coding Agent

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ITNEXT

· ~7 min read · June 2, 2026 (Updated: June 3, 2026) · Free: No

As you incorporate coding agents into your workflow, understanding how they behave becomes...

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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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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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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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Claude Code Agent Skills 2.0: From Custom Instructions to Programmable Agents

Towards AI

Towards AI

· ~17 min read · March 9, 2026 (Updated: March 14, 2026) · Free: No

Skills are no longer instructions. They are programs.

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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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The Best Developer Platform Might Be the One Nobody Opens

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ITNEXT

· ~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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AsciiDoc over Markdown

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ITNEXT

· ~6 min read · October 30, 2025 (Updated: November 1, 2025) · Free: Yes

I taught myself HTML a long time ago, on a software called HotDog (Pro?). There wasn&#39t such a...

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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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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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