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...
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...
CloudnativePG: postgres database the modern way
For years, running a highly available (HA) PostgreSQL cluster was considered one of the...
Agents, Context, and the Real Work of AI Development
I sat in on a Buckeye AI session this week that covered reinforcement learning, evaluations,...
Mastering ArgoCD Management: Advanced GitOps Techniques for Flexibility and Scale
I setup Kubermatic SecureGuard before it even existed
Kubermatic just released SecureGuard — an open-source secrets management platform built on...
The invisible crisis in AI Observability
Every time something breaks in production, most teams have no idea where to look, not just AI...
GitOps with Terraform using tofu-controller: Grafana and Hashicorp Vault as Code
Why GitOps shouldn't stop at Kubernetes.
FrontOps. How structured logging saves you from console output chaos
One library can solve all your development problems and make it predictable
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...
Claude Code: creating Kubernetes debugging AI Agent for VictoriaMetrics
Creating a Claude Code Marketplace and a Claude Code Plugin with a custom AI agent for Kubernetes...
Building My Own Self-Hosted dbt Cloud
What if you could get 80% of the dbt Cloud experience while keeping everything self-hosted?...
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...
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...
Claude Code Agent Skills 2.0: From Custom Instructions to Programmable Agents
Skills are no longer instructions. They are programs.
Ansible AWX: Infrastructure Automation on Top of Kubernetes
This article documents our team's research journey exploring Ansible AWX as an infrastructure...
Why does Playwright MCP use so many tokens?
Playwright MCP's accessibility snapshots pile up in context turn after turn. I benchmarked...
Ask vs guess culture
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!"...
The Best Developer Platform Might Be the One Nobody Opens
Building an AI Native Developer Platform on Kubernetes and Why It Is Becoming a Core Part of...
The 12 Components of Google BigQuery
Folks have been discussing BigQuery quite a bit these days, which is fantastic. But there's a...
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...
Shutdown Signals with Docker Entry-point Scripts
Shutdown signals are hard to understand to start. Even harder when you add Docker and Entry-point...
Building a Production-Grade HA Kubernetes Cluster on a Homelab with $0 in Cloud Costs
How I turned four Proxmox nodes, some enterprise surplus drives, and an afternoon into a fully...
Your LLM Is Overqualified for Half Its Job: Jev for Cloud, DevOps and SRE Pipelines
Filipe Motta · Jev, TypeSafe AI, DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, Kubernetes · 2026
Keycloak Clustering Made Easy for Production (release 26.7.3)
Exploring the new JDBC-PING default transport stack with Docker Compose for Local Clustering
From Prompts to Loops: Building Autonomous Coding Agents
Why developers are moving from writing prompts to writing the systems that write prompts
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...
Microsoft Foundry's New Agent Stack, Explained in 12 Diagrams
Tool search that cuts input tokens by more than 97%, native voice agents, crash-resilient hosted...
Maintaining Apache Iceberg Tables: Compaction, Snapshots, Metadata and Orphan Files
The complete guide to Iceberg table maintenance — the four operations every table requires, why...
Life at the Port: Arrow, Parquet, Iceberg, and Polaris, Explained
A short story that walks through how these four Apache projects work together
Kafka SASL Authentication: Usage & Best Practices
Build an EKS cluster with Terraform
A simple infrastructure-as-code way, with custom VPC and ELB
Testing Kairos as an OS for k8s cluster
The article and files to build/test Kairos OS can be found here:...
Software 2.0
I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just "another tool in your machine...
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 Physical Servers to Virtual Kubernetes Clusters
Understanding the need for Kubernetes multi-tenancy with vCluster
A Golden Path for Terraform With AI Agents: Efficient, Responsible and Productive on Any Cloud
Filipe Motta · September 2026
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...
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...
From Zero to Event-Driven: Migrating a Traditional CRUD App to Axon Framework
A Step-by-Step Refactoring Journey — Same Domain, Radically Different Architecture
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...
How to Manage Keycloak with the Command Line: No UI Required (release 26.7.1)
Step-by-step instructions for managing realms, clients, roles, and users straight from your terminal