Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps as a Real-Time State Store
What if your services could react to configuration changes the moment they happen — no message...
Self-Hosted VPN with Headscale: One Mesh Network for Your Entire Homelab
(Part 1/2)
CloudnativePG: postgres database the modern way
For years, running a highly available (HA) PostgreSQL cluster was considered one of the...
Ask vs guess culture
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!"...
This is why you should not learn to use Docker
You're a developer and you think you should "Learn to use Docker" ? Today, I'll...
Microsoft Foundry — AI Agent Service Deep Dive.
A builder's guide to tools, memory, workflows, evaluation, and observability in Foundry Agent...
[July 2026] AI Community — Activity Highlights and Achievements
We love sharing the accomplishments of the Google AI communities over the month. We appreciate...
Open Data Lakehouse: A Practical Guide
The architecture, components, and operational reality of building a production open data...
The invisible crisis in AI Observability
Every time something breaks in production, most teams have no idea where to look, not just AI...
A new Kubernetes package installer
Introduces a Kubernetes package installer designed for simple installation and post-installation...
If You Thought Claude Max 20x Meant 20x Weekly Usage — You Were Wrong
Paying double for four times the usage sounded like a no-brainer… until you realized what limit...
Benchmark, Profile, Prove: A 12x Go Performance Win
How pprof and benchstat found schema recompilation hiding in a Grafana Kafka plugin's hot path
From Physics Events to Real-Time Analytics with Kafka Streams
A lightweight stream processing application that transforms raw motion and collision events from...
I setup Kubermatic SecureGuard before it even existed
Kubermatic just released SecureGuard — an open-source secrets management platform built on...
Build your own Managed Kubernetes Service on Proxmox with CAPI
Build your own KaaS platform on Proxmox with Cluster API.
Maintaining Apache Iceberg Tables: Compaction, Snapshots, Metadata and Orphan Files
The complete guide to Iceberg table maintenance — the four operations every table requires, why...
Agents, Context, and the Real Work of AI Development
I sat in on a Buckeye AI session this week that covered reinforcement learning, evaluations,...
Testing Kairos as an OS for k8s cluster
The article and files to build/test Kairos OS can be found here:...
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...
MCP 2.0 Is Mostly Deletion. That's The Good Part.
Ok. MCP just shipped the biggest change since the day it launched, and the headline isn't a...
Transcribing any Youtube Video with Python: A Step-by-Step guide
Script that actually works
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...
Build an EKS cluster with Terraform
A simple infrastructure-as-code way, with custom VPC and ELB
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
Debugging Apache Iceberg: A Production Guide
Apache Iceberg gives you ACID semantics, schema evolution, partition evolution, and time travel...
Docker VPN & userspace Wireguard…
Adventures building a vpn server
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...
celld: Durable Objects, Unbundled
celld, a new open-source project from Deno, reimplements Cloudflare's Durable Objects model on...
Keycloak Clustering Made Easy for Production (release 26.7.3)
Exploring the new JDBC-PING default transport stack with Docker Compose for Local Clustering
Kubernetes configuration transformation orchestrators
Transformation is a powerful technique used by config-as-data tools, such as kustomize, kpt, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The 12 Components of Google BigQuery
Folks have been discussing BigQuery quite a bit these days, which is fantastic. But there's a...
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,...
Ansible AWX: Infrastructure Automation on Top of Kubernetes
This article documents our team's research journey exploring Ansible AWX as an infrastructure...
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...
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 My Own Self-Hosted dbt Cloud
What if you could get 80% of the dbt Cloud experience while keeping everything self-hosted?...
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...
Monitoring Apache Ignite 3 with Prometheus and Grafana via OpenTelemetry (OTLP)
A complete step-by-step guide to spinning up a 3-node Apache Ignite 3 cluster with Docker Compose...