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

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

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

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

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· ~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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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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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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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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One Pane of Glass: Building a Real-Time LLM & Hardware Telemetry Dashboard

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· ~6 min read · July 22, 2026 (Updated: July 22, 2026) · Free: No

Leveraging llama.cpp telemetry and Linux kernel metrics for seamless monitoring

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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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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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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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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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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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Agents, Context, and the Real Work of AI Development

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· ~7 min read · December 7, 2025 (Updated: December 8, 2025) · Free: No

I sat in on a Buckeye AI session this week that covered reinforcement learning, evaluations,...

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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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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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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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What Is kubara? A GitOps-First Approach to Reusable Kubernetes Platforms

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· ~10 min read · July 21, 2026 (Updated: July 21, 2026) · Free: Yes

How kubara combines a declarative platform contract, a curated component catalog, and Argo CD to...

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

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· ~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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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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Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps as a Real-Time State Store

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· ~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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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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I setup Kubermatic SecureGuard before it even existed

~8 min read · March 24, 2026 (Updated: March 24, 2026) · Free: Yes

Kubermatic just released SecureGuard — an open-source secrets management platform built on...

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From Physical Servers to Virtual Kubernetes Clusters

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

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

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· ~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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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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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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Deploying SageMaker Endpoints With CloudFormation

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

Infrastructure As Code With SageMaker

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Kubernetes configuration transformation orchestrators

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

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

Skills are no longer instructions. They are programs.

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MCP 2.0 Is Mostly Deletion. That's The Good Part.

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· ~14 min read · July 27, 2026 (Updated: July 28, 2026) · Free: Yes

Ok. MCP just shipped the biggest change since the day it launched, and the headline isn&#39t a...

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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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