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...
Data Lakehouse: Infrastructure
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· ~6 min read · September 19, 2025 (Updated: September 20, 2025) · Free: YesArchitecting a sophisticated Data Lakehouse platform on AWS, using EKS and cutting-edge...
Kafka Oauth Bearer OIDC setup with Azure Event Hubs and Azure Active Directory
You can read the initial Kafka Oauthbearer OIDC Keycloak setup tutorial to have a better...
Building a Production-Grade Apache Spark Platform on Kubernetes
Deploying the Spark Operator, Building Custom Images, Running Structured Streaming through Helm,...
[July 2026] AI Community — Activity Highlights and Achievements
We love sharing the accomplishments of the Google AI communities over the month. We appreciate...
Mastering ArgoCD Management: Advanced GitOps Techniques for Flexibility and Scale
Building an AI Native Developer Platform
Developers are the primary actors in a software engineering organization — and with that top of...
Remote Code Development on Termux using VS Code and Neovim
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Apache Iceberg Compaction Best Practices
A production guide to compaction strategies, parameter tuning, maintenance sequencing, and...
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...
Running Production Minded Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi
Most Kubernetes clusters are built in environments with excess capacity.
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
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...
Building My Own Self-Hosted dbt Cloud
What if you could get 80% of the dbt Cloud experience while keeping everything self-hosted?...
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...
Benchmark, Profile, Prove: A 12x Go Performance Win
How pprof and benchstat found schema recompilation hiding in a Grafana Kafka plugin's hot path
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,...
Under the Hood: Using OpenTelemetry to Monitor Your AI Coding Agent
As you incorporate coding agents into your workflow, understanding how they behave becomes...
Ansible AWX: Infrastructure Automation on Top of Kubernetes
This article documents our team's research journey exploring Ansible AWX as an infrastructure...
Build your own Managed Kubernetes Service on Proxmox with CAPI
Build your own KaaS platform on Proxmox with Cluster API.
Debugging Apache Iceberg: A Production Guide
Apache Iceberg gives you ACID semantics, schema evolution, partition evolution, and time travel...
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...
Validating, scoring, and gating Kubernetes configuration after every change
Validating triggers provide the kind of guardrails that AI agents need in order to verify their...
Docker VPN & userspace Wireguard…
Adventures building a vpn server
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...
Open Data Lakehouse: A Practical Guide
The architecture, components, and operational reality of building a production open data...
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...
OpenAI Codex CLI: From Broken Install to Multi-Agent Orchestration (Production Guide)
OpenAI Codex CLI Complete Guide from Installation to Multi-Agent Production Systems
Is This a Tool, a Skill, or an Agent?
A map of the Generative AI stack, and how everything fits
Maintaining Apache Iceberg Tables: Compaction, Snapshots, Metadata and Orphan Files
The complete guide to Iceberg table maintenance — the four operations every table requires, why...
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.
This simple secret makes AI infinitely more intuitive.
Once you see it this way, you'll never unsee it.
Software 2.0
I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just "another tool in your machine...
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...
Best Jupyter Notebook Alternatives in 2025
I've been using Jupyter Notebook since 2019, when it was introduced in a cloud computing...
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,...
Backup and Restore MySQL 8 Database with XtraBackup
What is XtraBackup?
From Zero to Event-Driven: Migrating a Traditional CRUD App to Axon Framework
A Step-by-Step Refactoring Journey — Same Domain, Radically Different Architecture
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...
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
Self-Hosted VPN with Headscale: One Mesh Network for Your Entire Homelab
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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...