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Backup and Restore MySQL 8 Database with XtraBackup

~2 min read · November 13, 2019 (Updated: December 12, 2021) · Free: Yes

What is XtraBackup?

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Stop AI from Hallucinating Your Kubernetes YAML

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· ~6 min read · October 18, 2025 (Updated: October 18, 2025) · Free: Yes

Using a vCluster YAML MCP Server

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6 Tips to Writing a Great Helm Chart

~6 min read · July 3, 2023 (Updated: July 5, 2023) · Free: Yes

Methods to make your helm chart go from good to great and improve the quality of life of every...

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Integrating Active Directory (AD) with Keycloak for user federation

~2 min read · June 8, 2024 (Updated: November 23, 2024) · Free: Yes

Integrating Active Directory (AD) with Keyclgoak for user federation involves setting up Keycloak...

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Build your own Managed Kubernetes Service on Proxmox with CAPI

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· ~14 min read · October 18, 2025 (Updated: December 22, 2025) · Free: Yes

Build your own KaaS platform on Proxmox with Cluster API.

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Kubernetes configuration transformation orchestrators

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· ~7 min read · August 6, 2026 (Updated: August 6, 2026) · Free: Yes

Transformation is a powerful technique used by config-as-data tools, such as kustomize, kpt, and...

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Maintaining Apache Iceberg Tables: Compaction, Snapshots, Metadata and Orphan Files

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· ~27 min read · August 23, 2026 (Updated: August 23, 2026) · Free: Yes

The complete guide to Iceberg table maintenance — the four operations every table requires, why...

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IaC in the SRE Lens: War Stories and the Future

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· ~9 min read · October 13, 2025 (Updated: October 13, 2025) · Free: Yes

Introduction

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From Prompts to Loops: Building Autonomous Coding Agents

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· ~8 min read · June 28, 2026 (Updated: June 28, 2026) · Free: No

Why developers are moving from writing prompts to writing the systems that write prompts

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CI/CD Pipeline: Deploying a Hugo Blog to AWS with GitHub Actions + OIDC

JBrewInTheCloud

JBrewInTheCloud

· ~3 min read · April 16, 2025 (Updated: April 23, 2025) · Free: No

Overview

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MCP 2.0 Is Mostly Deletion. That's The Good Part.

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· ~14 min read · July 27, 2026 (Updated: July 28, 2026) · Free: Yes

Ok. MCP just shipped the biggest change since the day it launched, and the headline isn&#39t a...

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Our Kubernetes Cluster Was Costing $14,850/Month. We Moved to Fly.io for $680.

Level Up Coding

Level Up Coding

· ~7 min read · February 25, 2026 (Updated: February 25, 2026) · Free: No

A war story about infrastructure hubris, a CFO&#39s question nobody could answer, and the two...

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Is Node-RED Production Ready for Industrial Automation? Real-World PLC and Factory Deployments

~8 min read · March 10, 2026 (Updated: March 10, 2026) · Free: Yes

Walker Reynolds, Klaus Landsdorf, and Oriol Rius discuss how Node-RED is used in real Industry...

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One Pane of Glass: Building a Real-Time LLM & Hardware Telemetry Dashboard

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· ~6 min read · July 22, 2026 (Updated: July 22, 2026) · Free: No

Leveraging llama.cpp telemetry and Linux kernel metrics for seamless monitoring

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Build a Local Kubernetes Platform with kubara, kind, and Argo CD

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· ~8 min read · August 4, 2026 (Updated: August 4, 2026) · Free: Yes

Create a local kind cluster, generate reviewable platform state with kubara, and let Argo CD...

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Remote Code Development on Termux using VS Code and Neovim

~3 min read · December 21, 2020 (Updated: December 24, 2021) · Free: No

Overview

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AI is Here to Stay: Navigating the Uncertainty as a Developer

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· ~7 min read · July 28, 2026 (Updated: July 29, 2026) · Free: No

It is hard to find someone in software development/IT whose job wasn&#39t affected in some way by...

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Benchmark, Profile, Prove: A 12x Go Performance Win

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· ~13 min read · July 29, 2026 (Updated: July 29, 2026) · Free: Yes

How pprof and benchstat found schema recompilation hiding in a Grafana Kafka plugin&#39s hot path

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Inside Azure's AI Superfactory: How "Fairwater" Turns Every Gigawatt Into Useful Tokens.

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· ~8 min read · November 14, 2025 (Updated: November 14, 2025) · Free: No

A practical deep dive into the two-story liquid-cooled racks, flat AI fabric, and planet-scale AI...

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Kafka SASL Authentication: Usage & Best Practices

~8 min read · August 19, 2025 (Updated: August 20, 2025) · Free: Yes

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AI Agents Don't Need Smarter Retrieval. They Need a Config Database

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· ~5 min read · July 28, 2026 (Updated: July 30, 2026) · Free: Yes

Today&#39s AI agents are smart enough. They fail at Kubernetes chores anyway, because the answers...

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GitHub Copilot Coding Agent: The Complete Architecture Behind Agentic DevOps at Enterprise Scale

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· ~13 min read · February 20, 2026 (Updated: February 20, 2026) · Free: No

How GitHub Is Replacing Solo Developers With Autonomous Agent Teams, and What That Means for Your...

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Ask vs guess culture

~8 min read · August 18, 2023 (Updated: August 29, 2023) · Free: No

When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!"...

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OpenAI Codex CLI: From Broken Install to Multi-Agent Orchestration (Production Guide)

~16 min read · November 18, 2025 (Updated: November 26, 2025) · Free: No

OpenAI Codex CLI Complete Guide from Installation to Multi-Agent Production Systems

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Shutdown Signals with Docker Entry-point Scripts

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· ~5 min read · August 17, 2020 (Updated: January 2, 2026) · Free: Yes

Shutdown signals are hard to understand to start. Even harder when you add Docker and Entry-point...

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9 Apache Spark Alternatives You Should Know in 2026

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· ~18 min read · August 2, 2026 (Updated: August 2, 2026) · Free: Yes

Spark is not the only engine anymore. Here are the tools replacing it for compaction, analytics,...

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Testing Kairos as an OS for k8s cluster

~18 min read · October 10, 2023 (Updated: October 10, 2023) · Free: Yes

The article and files to build/test Kairos OS can be found here:...

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Deep Agents: LangChain Just Open-Sourced a Replica of Claude Code

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Spillwave Solutions

· ~6 min read · March 24, 2026 (Updated: April 8, 2026) · Free: No

Exploring Deep Agents: An Open-Source LangChain Framework for Coding Agents Inspired by Claude Code

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How to Manage Keycloak with the Command Line: No UI Required (release 26.7.1)

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· ~9 min read · August 18, 2026 (Updated: August 19, 2026) · Free: No

Step-by-step instructions for managing realms, clients, roles, and users straight from your terminal

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LiteLLM: Metrics, Traces, and VictoriaMetrics Stack Integration

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· ~13 min read · July 21, 2026 (Updated: July 21, 2026) · Free: Yes

Configuring metrics and traces from LiteLLM to VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaTraces. iteLLM...

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Understanding IAM Policy Evaluation Logic and Permission Boundaries in AWS

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AWS in Plain English

· ~6 min read · November 7, 2024 (Updated: November 13, 2024) · Free: No

Use IAM Policy Evaluation Logic and Permission Boundaries to secure and delegate AWS access with...

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7 Data Compaction Engines for Apache Iceberg in 2026

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· ~16 min read · July 10, 2026 (Updated: July 12, 2026) · Free: Yes

Compaction used to be running Spark on cron jobs. Now we have smarter options: what are they, and...

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What Is kubara? A GitOps-First Approach to Reusable Kubernetes Platforms

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· ~10 min read · July 21, 2026 (Updated: July 21, 2026) · Free: Yes

How kubara combines a declarative platform contract, a curated component catalog, and Argo CD to...

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Deploying SageMaker Endpoints With CloudFormation

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TDS Archive

· ~5 min read · August 16, 2022 (Updated: August 17, 2022) · Free: No

Infrastructure As Code With SageMaker

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nb-cli: A Command-Line Interface for AI Agents and Notebook Automation

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Jupyter Blog

· ~10 min read · May 11, 2026 (Updated: May 11, 2026) · Free: Yes

The rise of AI coding agents has transformed how we think about developer tools. Large language...

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Vibe Coding a Kubernetes Media Server: What I Learned About AI-First Engineering

~15 min read · March 25, 2026 (Updated: March 25, 2026) · Free: Yes

Zero Kubernetes experience. One week of vibe coding. What AI gets right — and where it needed a...

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Agent Data Protocol (ADP): The Missing Standard for Training LLM Agents

~4 min read · November 4, 2025 (Updated: November 4, 2025) · Free: Yes

Training large language model (LLM) agents to act intelligently in real-world environments has...

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I made PostgreSQL INSERT operations 36 times faster in Python

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· ~3 min read · October 3, 2024 (Updated: May 20, 2026) · Free: Yes

You probably already know that rule number one when performing inserts is to use bulk inserts,...

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Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps as a Real-Time State Store

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Sahibinden Technology

· ~7 min read · April 16, 2026 (Updated: April 16, 2026) · Free: Yes

What if your services could react to configuration changes the moment they happen — no message...

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Agents, Context, and the Real Work of AI Development

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· ~7 min read · December 7, 2025 (Updated: December 8, 2025) · Free: No

I sat in on a Buckeye AI session this week that covered reinforcement learning, evaluations,...

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Finding & Exploiting Exposed Google API Keys for Bug $Bounties

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InfoSec Write-ups

· ~13 min read · May 23, 2026 (Updated: May 23, 2026) · Free: No

Turn exposed Google API keys into real-world impact by accessing Gemini and other Google services...

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Kafka Oauth Bearer OIDC setup with Azure Event Hubs and Azure Active Directory

Towards Data Engineering

Towards Data Engineering

· ~7 min read · March 4, 2023 (Updated: February 26, 2025) · Free: Yes

You can read the initial Kafka Oauthbearer OIDC Keycloak setup tutorial to have a better...

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This simple secret makes AI infinitely more intuitive.

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AI Advances

· ~6 min read · December 13, 2025 (Updated: December 14, 2025) · Free: No

Once you see it this way, you&#39ll never unsee it.

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Unlock WhatsApp Messaging in Home Assistant with Green API Custom Notifier

~4 min read · April 2, 2024 (Updated: November 29, 2024) · Free: Yes

green-api is a service that allows us to send and receive text, photo and video using stable...

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Argo CD App-of-apps and Configuration as Data

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· ~8 min read · July 15, 2026 (Updated: July 15, 2026) · Free: Yes

App-of-Apps is how a lot of teams run many Argo CD applications from one place — but what it...

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