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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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Mastering ArgoCD Management: Advanced GitOps Techniques for Flexibility and Scale

~6 min read · September 19, 2023 (Updated: September 26, 2023) · Free: Yes

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Micronaut vs Quarkus: The Battle for Supersonic JVM Apps

~3 min read · June 15, 2025 (Updated: June 15, 2025) · Free: No

When it comes to building lightweight, high-performance Java applications, Micronaut and Quarkus...

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Dynamic And Static Health Framework (DASH) At OVHCloud

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

Unified Quality Framework with Machine-Readable Reports and Transparent Governance

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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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9 Apache Spark Alternatives You Should Know in 2026

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

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· ~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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Finding & Exploiting Exposed Google API Keys for Bug $Bounties

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· ~13 min read · May 23, 2026 (Updated: May 23, 2026) · Free: No

Turn exposed Google API keys into real-world impact by accessing Gemini and other Google services...

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

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· ~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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Yes you should understand backprop

~7 min read · December 19, 2016 (Updated: June 21, 2018) · Free: Yes

When we offered CS231n (Deep Learning class) at Stanford, we intentionally designed the...

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Building an AI Native Developer Platform

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· ~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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AsciiDoc over Markdown

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· ~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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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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Shutdown Signals with Docker Entry-point Scripts

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· ~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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Monitoring Apache Ignite 3 with Prometheus and Grafana via OpenTelemetry (OTLP)

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· ~6 min read · October 6, 2026 (Updated: October 6, 2026) · Free: No

A complete step-by-step guide to spinning up a 3-node Apache Ignite 3 cluster with Docker Compose...

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LiteLLM: Metrics, Traces, and VictoriaMetrics Stack Integration

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· ~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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Keycloak Clustering Made Easy for Production (release 26.7.3)

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· ~7 min read · September 29, 2026 (Updated: September 29, 2026) · Free: No

Exploring the new JDBC-PING default transport stack with Docker Compose for Local Clustering

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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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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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Creating a Tailwind CSS Portfolio Website with Claude AI

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· ~10 min read · September 14, 2024 (Updated: November 16, 2024) · Free: No

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Claude Code: creating Kubernetes debugging AI Agent for VictoriaMetrics

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· ~32 min read · June 30, 2026 (Updated: June 30, 2026) · Free: Yes

Creating a Claude Code Marketplace and a Claude Code Plugin with a custom AI agent for Kubernetes...

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Observability Is Converging. Humans Aren't the Only Ones Querying It Anymore

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· ~11 min read · August 17, 2026 (Updated: August 17, 2026) · Free: Yes

Putting metrics, logs, and traces into one columnar store, querying them together, and holding up...

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Open Data Lakehouse: A Practical Guide

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· ~23 min read · August 19, 2026 (Updated: August 19, 2026) · Free: Yes

The architecture, components, and operational reality of building a production open data...

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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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A new Kubernetes package installer

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· ~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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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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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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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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Zero-Cost Non-Prod EKS: Scale to Zero Nodes with KEDA Cron + Karpenter

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Towards AWS

· ~17 min read · May 31, 2026 (Updated: June 1, 2026) · Free: No

Executive Summary

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Your Customers Shouldn't Be Your Alert System: A Deep Dive into MELT

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· ~16 min read · August 25, 2026 (Updated: September 2, 2026) · Free: Yes

Stop relying on users to report outages. Learn how unifying MELT, OpenTelemetry, & modern...

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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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[July 2026] AI Community — Activity Highlights and Achievements

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

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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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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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Data Lakehouse: Infrastructure

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· ~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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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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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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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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Self-Hosted VPN with Headscale: One Mesh Network for Your Entire Homelab

~4 min read · February 19, 2026 (Updated: February 19, 2026) · Free: Yes

(Part 1/2)

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

JBrewInTheCloud

JBrewInTheCloud

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

Overview

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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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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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A Golden Path for Terraform With AI Agents: Efficient, Responsible and Productive on Any Cloud

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· ~27 min read · September 28, 2026 (Updated: September 28, 2026) · Free: Yes

Filipe Motta · September 2026

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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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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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