Agents, Context, and the Real Work of AI Development
I sat in on a Buckeye AI session this week that covered reinforcement learning, evaluations,...
AI vs Data Science vs ML: The Choice That Could Make or Break Your Future
Why learning the wrong label in 2025 could cost you thousands, and how one quiet field is...
Building a Production-Grade HA Kubernetes Cluster on a Homelab with $0 in Cloud Costs
How I turned four Proxmox nodes, some enterprise surplus drives, and an afternoon into a fully...
Kafka SASL Authentication: Usage & Best Practices
Remote Code Development on Termux using VS Code and Neovim
Overview
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...
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...
VictoriaTraces: Tracing, Observability, and OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry and Observability in theory, deploying VictoriaTraces on Kubernetes, integration...
Kubernetes configuration transformation orchestrators
Transformation is a powerful technique used by config-as-data tools, such as kustomize, kpt, and...
Building an AI Agent That Runs Your SRE Operations — What I Learned, What Works, and How You Can Do…
Every SRE team has the same story. Here is how we change the ending.
Our Kubernetes Cluster Was Costing $14,850/Month. We Moved to Fly.io for $680.
A war story about infrastructure hubris, a CFO's question nobody could answer, and the two...
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...
From Physical Servers to Virtual Kubernetes Clusters
Understanding the need for Kubernetes multi-tenancy with vCluster
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...
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...
Kafka Oauth Bearer setup with OpenID Connect(OIDC) and Keycloak
I had difficulties setting up a Kafka cluster to use SASL_PLAINTEXT/SASL_SSL OAUTHBEARER...
Open Data Lakehouse: A Practical Guide
The architecture, components, and operational reality of building a production open data...
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,...
Microsoft Foundry — AI Agent Service Deep Dive.
A builder's guide to tools, memory, workflows, evaluation, and observability in Foundry Agent...
Building My Own Self-Hosted dbt Cloud
What if you could get 80% of the dbt Cloud experience while keeping everything self-hosted?...
I setup Kubermatic SecureGuard before it even existed
Kubermatic just released SecureGuard — an open-source secrets management platform built on...
Integrating Active Directory (AD) with Keycloak for user federation
Integrating Active Directory (AD) with Keyclgoak for user federation involves setting up Keycloak...
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
OpenAI Codex CLI: From Broken Install to Multi-Agent Orchestration (Production Guide)
OpenAI Codex CLI Complete Guide from Installation to Multi-Agent Production Systems
Claude Code Agent Skills 2.0: From Custom Instructions to Programmable Agents
Skills are no longer instructions. They are programs.
ClickHouse Shard Rebalancing on Kubernetes: From Talk to Operator
TL;DR
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...
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...
We're a 3-person tech team running production Kubernetes — So we built an AI SRE
We build a decentralized data platform. Client data never leaves their infrastructure — that's...
Running Production Minded Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi
Most Kubernetes clusters are built in environments with excess capacity.
Apache Iceberg Compaction Best Practices
A production guide to compaction strategies, parameter tuning, maintenance sequencing, and...
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...
Dynamic And Static Health Framework (DASH) At OVHCloud
Unified Quality Framework with Machine-Readable Reports and Transparent Governance
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...
GitOps with Terraform using tofu-controller: Grafana and Hashicorp Vault as Code
Why GitOps shouldn't stop at Kubernetes.
Micronaut vs Quarkus: The Battle for Supersonic JVM Apps
When it comes to building lightweight, high-performance Java applications, Micronaut and Quarkus...
A Mental Model for Claude Code: Skills, Subagents, and Plugins
I spent weeks confused by the feature ecosystem. Here is the mental model I wish I had from the...
Under the Hood: Using OpenTelemetry to Monitor Your AI Coding Agent
As you incorporate coding agents into your workflow, understanding how they behave becomes...
Building an AI Native Developer Platform
Developers are the primary actors in a software engineering organization — and with that top of...
Getting Started With Astro — The Innovative Static Site Generator
An SSG for multiple frameworks, minimizing the JS we ship