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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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AI is Here to Stay: Navigating the Uncertainty as a Developer

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· ~7 min read · July 28, 2026 (Updated: July 29, 2026) · Free: No

It is hard to find someone in software development/IT whose job wasn&#39t affected in some way by...

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Kafka SASL Authentication: Usage & Best Practices

~8 min read · August 19, 2025 (Updated: August 20, 2025) · Free: Yes

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Best Jupyter Notebook Alternatives in 2025

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Pathway to Data Analysis

· ~7 min read · June 21, 2025 (Updated: June 22, 2025) · Free: No

I&#39ve been using Jupyter Notebook since 2019, when it was introduced in a cloud computing...

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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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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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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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Marp: Crafting Beautiful Presentations with Markdown

~6 min read · July 22, 2025 (Updated: October 15, 2025) · Free: No

Effortless Slides, Powerful Impact

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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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Deploying SageMaker Endpoints With CloudFormation

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TDS Archive

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

Infrastructure As Code With SageMaker

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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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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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Ms Sql Server con docker-compose

~1 min read · November 29, 2022 (Updated: November 29, 2022) · Free: Yes

Ejemplo practico

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Vibe Coding a Kubernetes Media Server: What I Learned About AI-First Engineering

~15 min read · March 25, 2026 (Updated: March 25, 2026) · Free: Yes

Zero Kubernetes experience. One week of vibe coding. What AI gets right — and where it needed a...

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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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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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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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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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DevOps — Logging Standards and Best Practices

~8 min read · June 25, 2024 (Updated: November 22, 2024) · Free: No

Logging is an art form, and log messages are one of the primary tools developers use to...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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