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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

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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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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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Why does Playwright MCP use so many tokens?

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· ~6 min read · September 30, 2026 (Updated: October 1, 2026) · Free: Yes

Playwright MCP&#39s accessibility snapshots pile up in context turn after turn. I benchmarked...

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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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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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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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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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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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Finding & Exploiting Exposed Google API Keys for Bug $Bounties

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· ~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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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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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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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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A Mental Model for Claude Code: Skills, Subagents, and Plugins

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· ~12 min read · March 4, 2026 (Updated: March 4, 2026) · Free: Yes

I spent weeks confused by the feature ecosystem. Here is the mental model I wish I had from the...

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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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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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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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Zero-Cost Non-Prod EKS: Scale to Zero Nodes with KEDA Cron + Karpenter

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· ~17 min read · May 31, 2026 (Updated: June 1, 2026) · Free: No

Executive Summary

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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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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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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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Testing Kairos as an OS for k8s cluster

~18 min read · October 10, 2023 (Updated: October 10, 2023) · Free: Yes

The article and files to build/test Kairos OS can be found here:...

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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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Kafka Oauth Bearer setup with OpenID Connect(OIDC) and Keycloak

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· ~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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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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Kafka SASL Authentication: Usage & Best Practices

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

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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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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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This simple secret makes AI infinitely more intuitive.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Best Jupyter Notebook Alternatives in 2025

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· ~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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Yes you should understand backprop

~7 min read · December 19, 2016 (Updated: June 21, 2018) · Free: Yes

When we offered CS231n (Deep Learning class) at Stanford, we intentionally designed the...

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