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

Towards AWS

Towards AWS

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

Executive Summary

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Software 2.0

~9 min read · November 11, 2017 (Updated: December 7, 2022) · Free: Yes

I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just "another tool in your machine...

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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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Unlock WhatsApp Messaging in Home Assistant with Green API Custom Notifier

~4 min read · April 2, 2024 (Updated: November 29, 2024) · Free: Yes

green-api is a service that allows us to send and receive text, photo and video using stable...

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Trump's Gaza Proposal: A Negotiation Tactic for Real Change?

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Write A Catalyst

· ~2 min read · February 5, 2025 (Updated: February 10, 2025) · Free: Yes

The United State of Gaza?

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

Level Up Coding

Level Up Coding

· ~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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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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Your LLM Is Overqualified for Half Its Job: Jev for Cloud, DevOps and SRE Pipelines

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· ~19 min read · September 25, 2026 (Updated: September 25, 2026) · Free: Yes

Filipe Motta · Jev, TypeSafe AI, DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, Kubernetes · 2026

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Building My Own Self-Hosted dbt Cloud

~6 min read · June 25, 2026 (Updated: June 26, 2026) · Free: Yes

What if you could get 80% of the dbt Cloud experience while keeping everything self-hosted?...

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Monitoring Apache Ignite 3 with Prometheus and Grafana via OpenTelemetry (OTLP)

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

A complete step-by-step guide to spinning up a 3-node Apache Ignite 3 cluster with Docker Compose...

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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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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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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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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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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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[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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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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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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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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Running Production Minded Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi

~5 min read · February 15, 2026 (Updated: February 15, 2026) · Free: Yes

Most Kubernetes clusters are built in environments with excess capacity.

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Argo CD App-of-apps and Configuration as Data

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· ~8 min read · July 15, 2026 (Updated: July 15, 2026) · Free: Yes

App-of-Apps is how a lot of teams run many Argo CD applications from one place — but what it...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The invisible crisis in AI Observability

~4 min read · July 3, 2026 (Updated: July 3, 2026) · Free: Yes

Every time something breaks in production, most teams have no idea where to look, not just AI...

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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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We Built Google Maps for Kubernetes.

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· ~14 min read · July 15, 2026 (Updated: July 16, 2026) · Free: No

The first time you look at a map of Europe, you don&#39t need a legend to know Italy is the boot-...

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CI/CD Pipeline: Deploying a Hugo Blog to AWS with GitHub Actions + OIDC

JBrewInTheCloud

JBrewInTheCloud

· ~3 min read · April 16, 2025 (Updated: April 23, 2025) · Free: No

Overview

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

According to Context

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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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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celld: Durable Objects, Unbundled

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· ~11 min read · September 15, 2026 (Updated: September 15, 2026) · Free: Yes

celld, a new open-source project from Deno, reimplements Cloudflare&#39s Durable Objects model on...

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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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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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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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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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Real Engineers Reviewed Komodor and Groundcover. Here's What They Didn't Think to Ask.

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· ~9 min read · June 4, 2026 (Updated: June 4, 2026) · Free: No

Two of the most popular Kubernetes management tools on the market have serious problems that...

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AI coding agents write code fast. Why does review take so long?

~11 min read · October 1, 2026 (Updated: October 1, 2026) · Free: No

How to prevent scope creep, unnecessary refactors, and oversized pull requests with a task brief...

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