Real Engineers Reviewed Komodor and Groundcover. Here's What They Didn't Think to Ask.
Two of the most popular Kubernetes management tools on the market have serious problems that...
Deep Agents: LangChain Just Open-Sourced a Replica of Claude Code
Exploring Deep Agents: An Open-Source LangChain Framework for Coding Agents Inspired by Claude Code
Docker VPN & userspace Wireguard…
Adventures building a vpn server
If You Thought Claude Max 20x Meant 20x Weekly Usage — You Were Wrong
Paying double for four times the usage sounded like a no-brainer… until you realized what limit...
Kafka SASL Authentication: Usage & Best Practices
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...
TypeScript + OpenTelemetry: End-to-End Tracing from Browser to Node Without Guesswork
How to follow a single user action from click to database query without grepping logs or guessing...
LLMs on Kubernetes: The Easy Way
Sometimes, you just want to run a Large Language Model (LLM)… no Jupyter notebook, no training...
DevOps — Logging Standards and Best Practices
Logging is an art form, and log messages are one of the primary tools developers use to...
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...
Self-Hosted VPN with Headscale: One Mesh Network for Your Entire Homelab
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Build a Local Kubernetes Platform with kubara, kind, and Argo CD
Create a local kind cluster, generate reviewable platform state with kubara, and let Argo CD...
Ansible AWX: Infrastructure Automation on Top of Kubernetes
This article documents our team's research journey exploring Ansible AWX as an infrastructure...
Is This a Tool, a Skill, or an Agent?
A map of the Generative AI stack, and how everything fits
VictoriaTraces: Tracing, Observability, and OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry and Observability in theory, deploying VictoriaTraces on Kubernetes, integration...
A new Kubernetes package installer
Introduces a Kubernetes package installer designed for simple installation and post-installation...
LiteLLM: Metrics, Traces, and VictoriaMetrics Stack Integration
Configuring metrics and traces from LiteLLM to VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaTraces. iteLLM...
Ask vs guess culture
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!"...
Observability Is Converging. Humans Aren't the Only Ones Querying It Anymore
Putting metrics, logs, and traces into one columnar store, querying them together, and holding up...
Understanding IAM Policy Evaluation Logic and Permission Boundaries in AWS
Use IAM Policy Evaluation Logic and Permission Boundaries to secure and delegate AWS access with...
GitHub Copilot Coding Agent: The Complete Architecture Behind Agentic DevOps at Enterprise Scale
How GitHub Is Replacing Solo Developers With Autonomous Agent Teams, and What That Means for Your...
9 Apache Spark Alternatives You Should Know in 2026
Spark is not the only engine anymore. Here are the tools replacing it for compaction, analytics,...
Building My Own Self-Hosted dbt Cloud
What if you could get 80% of the dbt Cloud experience while keeping everything self-hosted?...
Life at the Port: Arrow, Parquet, Iceberg, and Polaris, Explained
A short story that walks through how these four Apache projects work together
Build your own Managed Kubernetes Service on Proxmox with CAPI
Build your own KaaS platform on Proxmox with Cluster API.
Unlock WhatsApp Messaging in Home Assistant with Green API Custom Notifier
green-api is a service that allows us to send and receive text, photo and video using stable...
Shutdown Signals with Docker Entry-point Scripts
Shutdown signals are hard to understand to start. Even harder when you add Docker and Entry-point...
Build an EKS cluster with Terraform
A simple infrastructure-as-code way, with custom VPC and ELB
Marp: Crafting Beautiful Presentations with Markdown
Effortless Slides, Powerful Impact
Claude Code Agent Skills 2.0: From Custom Instructions to Programmable Agents
Skills are no longer instructions. They are programs.
Apache Iceberg Compaction Best Practices
A production guide to compaction strategies, parameter tuning, maintenance sequencing, and...
Validating, scoring, and gating Kubernetes configuration after every change
Validating triggers provide the kind of guardrails that AI agents need in order to verify their...
Agent Data Protocol (ADP): The Missing Standard for Training LLM Agents
Training large language model (LLM) agents to act intelligently in real-world environments has...
Running Production Minded Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi
Most Kubernetes clusters are built in environments with excess capacity.
Finding & Exploiting Exposed Google API Keys for Bug $Bounties
Turn exposed Google API keys into real-world impact by accessing Gemini and other Google services...
AI Agents Don't Need Smarter Retrieval. They Need a Config Database
Today's AI agents are smart enough. They fail at Kubernetes chores anyway, because the answers...
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...
One Pane of Glass: Building a Real-Time LLM & Hardware Telemetry Dashboard
Leveraging llama.cpp telemetry and Linux kernel metrics for seamless monitoring
The invisible crisis in AI Observability
Every time something breaks in production, most teams have no idea where to look, not just AI...
Debugging Apache Iceberg: A Production Guide
Apache Iceberg gives you ACID semantics, schema evolution, partition evolution, and time travel...
MCP 2.0 Is Mostly Deletion. That's The Good Part.
Ok. MCP just shipped the biggest change since the day it launched, and the headline isn't a...
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