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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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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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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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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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We're a 3-person tech team running production Kubernetes — So we built an AI SRE

~9 min read · April 17, 2026 (Updated: April 17, 2026) · Free: Yes

We build a decentralized data platform. Client data never leaves their infrastructure — that&#39s...

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Deep Agents: LangChain Just Open-Sourced a Replica of Claude Code

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Spillwave Solutions

· ~6 min read · March 24, 2026 (Updated: April 8, 2026) · Free: No

Exploring Deep Agents: An Open-Source LangChain Framework for Coding Agents Inspired by Claude Code

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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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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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Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps as a Real-Time State Store

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Sahibinden Technology

· ~7 min read · April 16, 2026 (Updated: April 16, 2026) · Free: Yes

What if your services could react to configuration changes the moment they happen — no message...

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Finding & Exploiting Exposed Google API Keys for Bug $Bounties

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InfoSec Write-ups

· ~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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Apache Iceberg Compaction Best Practices

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· ~31 min read · September 6, 2026 (Updated: September 6, 2026) · Free: Yes

A production guide to compaction strategies, parameter tuning, maintenance sequencing, and...

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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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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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Docker VPN & userspace Wireguard…

~6 min read · October 1, 2020 (Updated: March 31, 2023) · Free: Yes

Adventures building a vpn server

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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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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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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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[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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Benchmark, Profile, Prove: A 12x Go Performance Win

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· ~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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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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Is Node-RED Production Ready for Industrial Automation? Real-World PLC and Factory Deployments

~8 min read · March 10, 2026 (Updated: March 10, 2026) · Free: Yes

Walker Reynolds, Klaus Landsdorf, and Oriol Rius discuss how Node-RED is used in real Industry...

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Microsoft Foundry's New Agent Stack, Explained in 12 Diagrams

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· ~17 min read · September 29, 2026 (Updated: September 29, 2026) · Free: No

Tool search that cuts input tokens by more than 97%, native voice agents, crash-resilient hosted...

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

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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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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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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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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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Life at the Port: Arrow, Parquet, Iceberg, and Polaris, Explained

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· ~5 min read · September 14, 2026 (Updated: September 14, 2026) · Free: No

A short story that walks through how these four Apache projects work together

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7 Data Compaction Engines for Apache Iceberg in 2026

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· ~16 min read · July 10, 2026 (Updated: July 12, 2026) · Free: Yes

Compaction used to be running Spark on cron jobs. Now we have smarter options: what are they, and...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Understanding IAM Policy Evaluation Logic and Permission Boundaries in AWS

AWS in Plain English

AWS in Plain English

· ~6 min read · November 7, 2024 (Updated: November 13, 2024) · Free: No

Use IAM Policy Evaluation Logic and Permission Boundaries to secure and delegate AWS access with...

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

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· ~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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Build a Local Kubernetes Platform with kubara, kind, and Argo CD

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· ~8 min read · August 4, 2026 (Updated: August 4, 2026) · Free: Yes

Create a local kind cluster, generate reviewable platform state with kubara, and let Argo CD...

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If You Thought Claude Max 20x Meant 20x Weekly Usage — You Were Wrong

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· ~3 min read · September 3, 2026 (Updated: September 3, 2026) · Free: No

Paying double for four times the usage sounded like a no-brainer… until you realized what limit...

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Our Kubernetes Cluster Was Costing $14,850/Month. We Moved to Fly.io for $680.

Level Up Coding

Level Up Coding

· ~7 min read · February 25, 2026 (Updated: February 25, 2026) · Free: No

A war story about infrastructure hubris, a CFO&#39s question nobody could answer, and the two...

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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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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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