DevOps — Logging Standards and Best Practices
Logging is an art form, and log messages are one of the primary tools developers use to...
Kubernetes configuration transformation orchestrators
Transformation is a powerful technique used by config-as-data tools, such as kustomize, kpt, and...
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...
Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps as a Real-Time State Store
What if your services could react to configuration changes the moment they happen — no message...
How to Manage Keycloak with the Command Line: No UI Required (release 26.7.1)
Step-by-step instructions for managing realms, clients, roles, and users straight from your terminal
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...
Ask vs guess culture
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!"...
Open Data Lakehouse: A Practical Guide
The architecture, components, and operational reality of building a production open data...
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...
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...
A new Kubernetes package installer
Introduces a Kubernetes package installer designed for simple installation and post-installation...
Dynamic And Static Health Framework (DASH) At OVHCloud
Unified Quality Framework with Machine-Readable Reports and Transparent Governance
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...
A Golden Path for Terraform With AI Agents: Efficient, Responsible and Productive on Any Cloud
Filipe Motta · September 2026
The 12 Components of Google BigQuery
Folks have been discussing BigQuery quite a bit these days, which is fantastic. But there's a...
Deep Agents: LangChain Just Open-Sourced a Replica of Claude Code
Exploring Deep Agents: An Open-Source LangChain Framework for Coding Agents Inspired by Claude Code
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...
Kafka SASL Authentication: Usage & Best Practices
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...
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...
From Physics Events to Real-Time Analytics with Kafka Streams
A lightweight stream processing application that transforms raw motion and collision events from...
[July 2026] AI Community — Activity Highlights and Achievements
We love sharing the accomplishments of the Google AI communities over the month. We appreciate...
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...
Best Jupyter Notebook Alternatives in 2025
I've been using Jupyter Notebook since 2019, when it was introduced in a cloud computing...
nb-cli: A Command-Line Interface for AI Agents and Notebook Automation
The rise of AI coding agents has transformed how we think about developer tools. Large language...
Why does Playwright MCP use so many tokens?
Playwright MCP's accessibility snapshots pile up in context turn after turn. I benchmarked...
Keycloak Clustering Made Easy for Production (release 26.7.3)
Exploring the new JDBC-PING default transport stack with Docker Compose for Local Clustering
Building an AI Native Developer Platform
Developers are the primary actors in a software engineering organization — and with that top of...
6 Tips to Writing a Great Helm Chart
Methods to make your helm chart go from good to great and improve the quality of life of every...
Life at the Port: Arrow, Parquet, Iceberg, and Polaris, Explained
A short story that walks through how these four Apache projects work together
Self-Hosted VPN with Headscale: One Mesh Network for Your Entire Homelab
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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,...
We Built Google Maps for Kubernetes.
The first time you look at a map of Europe, you don't need a legend to know Italy is the boot-...
Tailwind Creator Found Claude Code 50% Slower Than Not Using an LLM
Creator of Tailwind CSS, Adam Wathan, tried using AI to help design some components for the first...
22 More Ways to Make Money with n8n (No Code, No Nonsense)
By very popular demand: after my first piece — "11 Ways to Make Money with n8n (Without...
celld: Durable Objects, Unbundled
celld, a new open-source project from Deno, reimplements Cloudflare's Durable Objects model on...
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.
Ansible AWX: Infrastructure Automation on Top of Kubernetes
This article documents our team's research journey exploring Ansible AWX as an infrastructure...
Marp: Crafting Beautiful Presentations with Markdown
Effortless Slides, Powerful Impact
Integrating Active Directory (AD) with Keycloak for user federation
Integrating Active Directory (AD) with Keyclgoak for user federation involves setting up Keycloak...
I setup Kubermatic SecureGuard before it even existed
Kubermatic just released SecureGuard — an open-source secrets management platform built on...