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...
Is Node-RED Production Ready for Industrial Automation? Real-World PLC and Factory Deployments
Walker Reynolds, Klaus Landsdorf, and Oriol Rius discuss how Node-RED is used in real Industry...
DevOps — Logging Standards and Best Practices
Logging is an art form, and log messages are one of the primary tools developers use to...
Claude Code: creating Kubernetes debugging AI Agent for VictoriaMetrics
Creating a Claude Code Marketplace and a Claude Code Plugin with a custom AI agent for Kubernetes...
Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps as a Real-Time State Store
What if your services could react to configuration changes the moment they happen — no message...
What Is kubara? A GitOps-First Approach to Reusable Kubernetes Platforms
How kubara combines a declarative platform contract, a curated component catalog, and Argo CD to...
Build an EKS cluster with Terraform
A simple infrastructure-as-code way, with custom VPC and ELB
Getting Started With Astro — The Innovative Static Site Generator
An SSG for multiple frameworks, minimizing the JS we ship
I made PostgreSQL INSERT operations 36 times faster in Python
You probably already know that rule number one when performing inserts is to use bulk inserts,...
Microsoft Foundry's New Agent Stack, Explained in 12 Diagrams
Tool search that cuts input tokens by more than 97%, native voice agents, crash-resilient hosted...
Backup and Restore MySQL 8 Database with XtraBackup
What is XtraBackup?
Maintaining Apache Iceberg Tables: Compaction, Snapshots, Metadata and Orphan Files
The complete guide to Iceberg table maintenance — the four operations every table requires, why...
Yes you should understand backprop
When we offered CS231n (Deep Learning class) at Stanford, we intentionally designed the...
7 Data Compaction Engines for Apache Iceberg in 2026
Compaction used to be running Spark on cron jobs. Now we have smarter options: what are they, and...
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...
Kafka SASL Authentication: Usage & Best Practices
Apache Iceberg Compaction Best Practices
A production guide to compaction strategies, parameter tuning, maintenance sequencing, and...
AsciiDoc over Markdown
I taught myself HTML a long time ago, on a software called HotDog (Pro?). There wasn't such a...
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...
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...
VictoriaTraces: Tracing, Observability, and OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry and Observability in theory, deploying VictoriaTraces on Kubernetes, integration...
Agents, Context, and the Real Work of AI Development
I sat in on a Buckeye AI session this week that covered reinforcement learning, evaluations,...
Data Lakehouse: Infrastructure
fresha-data-engineering
· ~6 min read · September 19, 2025 (Updated: September 20, 2025) · Free: YesArchitecting a sophisticated Data Lakehouse platform on AWS, using EKS and cutting-edge...
From Physics Events to Real-Time Analytics with Kafka Streams
A lightweight stream processing application that transforms raw motion and collision events from...
FrontOps. How structured logging saves you from console output chaos
One library can solve all your development problems and make it predictable
Running Production Minded Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi
Most Kubernetes clusters are built in environments with excess capacity.
Argo CD App-of-apps and Configuration as Data
App-of-Apps is how a lot of teams run many Argo CD applications from one place — but what it...
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...
Build your own Managed Kubernetes Service on Proxmox with CAPI
Build your own KaaS platform on Proxmox with Cluster API.
Inside Azure's AI Superfactory: How "Fairwater" Turns Every Gigawatt Into Useful Tokens.
A practical deep dive into the two-story liquid-cooled racks, flat AI fabric, and planet-scale AI...
The New Agents Window in VS Code: A Technical Deep Dive into the Agent Host, Sessions, Hooks, and…
VS Code now ships a dedicated Agents window, a second window built for running and tracking AI...
Life at the Port: Arrow, Parquet, Iceberg, and Polaris, Explained
A short story that walks through how these four Apache projects work together
The invisible crisis in AI Observability
Every time something breaks in production, most teams have no idea where to look, not just AI...
Microsoft Foundry — AI Agent Service Deep Dive.
A builder's guide to tools, memory, workflows, evaluation, and observability in Foundry Agent...
Your Customers Shouldn't Be Your Alert System: A Deep Dive into MELT
Stop relying on users to report outages. Learn how unifying MELT, OpenTelemetry, & modern...
OpenAI Codex CLI: From Broken Install to Multi-Agent Orchestration (Production Guide)
OpenAI Codex CLI Complete Guide from Installation to Multi-Agent Production Systems
Building a Local 3-Node Apache Ignite Cluster with Docker Compose
A step-by-step guide to orchestrating, configuring, and querying an open-source, distributed...
From Zero to Event-Driven: Migrating a Traditional CRUD App to Axon Framework
A Step-by-Step Refactoring Journey — Same Domain, Radically Different Architecture
Integrating Active Directory (AD) with Keycloak for user federation
Integrating Active Directory (AD) with Keyclgoak for user federation involves setting up Keycloak...
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...
I setup Kubermatic SecureGuard before it even existed
Kubermatic just released SecureGuard — an open-source secrets management platform built on...