DevOps & Cloud

Week 3 of building in public — a CLI, a web app, and a GitHub Action that writes your pull requests for you. Continue reading on Medium »

The tool that quietly does the job of five — and why DevOps teams are switching fast. Continue reading on Medium »

For about five years or so, I've reverse-engineered my way through building Vault secrets engines (AKA a type of plugin). While Vault has a number of them alrea

The Linux, MacOS, and Windows terminal is no longer just for commands. Thanks to apps like Wave, you can have a veritable toolbox at your disposal in a single w

Understanding what each tool does, when to use it, and how they fit into modern container workflows Continue reading on CodeX »

Understanding what each tool does, when to use it, and how they fit into modern container workflows Continue reading on CodeX »

Understanding what each tool does, when to use it, and how they fit into modern container workflows Continue reading on CodeX »

In this article, we delve into the AWS CLI v2 commands for managing RDS parameter groups. We cover crucial operations such as creation… Continue reading on Medi

I've been running Jenkins in one form or another for years now. Different companies, different sizes...

Why Your Kubernetes Log Parsing Is Silently Dropping Events (And How to Fix It) You're...

KumoMTA Setup Guide 2026: Ubuntu, Docker, Kubernetes & Production...

I've been spending a lot of time building and deploying MCP servers, experimenting with tool...

A deep dive into drunk-lib and drunk-app Helm charts — a library-first approach to Kubernetes deployments with OCI distribution and Claude Code AI plugins for v

Why You Ship a Whole Elephant in a Box to Deliver a Fly Continue reading on Medium »

GitHub ➜ Jenkins ➜ OWASP ➜ SonarQube ➜ Docker ➜ Trivy ➜ ArgoCD ➜ Kubernetes ➜ Prometheus ➜ Grafana  Continue reading on Medium »

How to use Charm's VHS to create GIF-based visual regression tests for your CLI's terminal output —...

Hello, this is my first post on Medium. It might also be considered my first tryout. The topic is small, which makes it a great candidate… Continue reading on M

A macOS update silently swapped rsync. My public repo's git history vanished. My first fix made it worse. Then I merged a bad commit without checking the diff.

They all provision infrastructure. They do not all solve the same problem. Here is the side-by-side breakdown that actually matters in… Continue reading on Medi

New act Plugin for SuperCLI GitHub Actions local runner — run, list, validate, and test...

Why every Industry 4.0 initiative without stable deployment pipelines is a time bomb Continue reading on Medium »

If you want to launch a powerful monitoring dashboard without dealing with complex installations, running Grafana in Docker is one of the… Continue reading on M

When I started working with Azure Container Apps, I expected the basics to be straightforward. Run a container, expose a port, done. And… Continue reading on Me

A single Python file with zero dependencies that runs anywhere Python runs. No setup, No config files, No PIP install, No Docker, No NPM… Continue reading on Me

You didn’t change anything. No deploy. No config update. Continue reading on Medium »

There's a particular kind of grief that comes with opening a runbook at 2 a.m. and realizing, halfway...

Originally published at fatihsennik.com You were running your own servers. You thought you...

Every tool in this setup was tested in real projects with actual traffic and workload. These are the tools that performed well enough to… Continue reading on Me

My talk at NDC focused on Multi-Region Active-Active architecture. For the demo, I deployed a platform capable of scaling across N Azure… Continue reading on Me

We deployed the same Next.js app + Postgres database to Fly.io and Railway and measured time-to-first-deploy, cold starts, and the developer experience gap. Rai

Harden MCP retries and rate-limit handling with route budgets, quota owners, idempotency guards, backoff evidence, exhausted-budget denials, and receipts.

Modern software development has changed completely. Applications are no longer deployed directly on...

A Terraform engineer’s guide to using CLAUDE.md as a security, cost, and misconfig guardrail, not just project context Continue reading on Medium »

TL;DR This architecture uses Karpenter + KEDA + Dragonfly on EKS to scale GPU inference pods from...

Every developer knows the pain: you have a great idea, open your terminal, and then... spend the next...

On Second Thought — Episode 08 A new service is started. The README is written, then the...

When managing thousands of applications by a single ArgoCD instance, GitOps can quickly become operational chaos. In this post, I’ll share… Continue reading on

A role-play guide to how Helm turns fragile Kubernetes YAML into one consistent, versioned application package. Continue reading on Towards Dev »

"Choosing a container engine isn't about fashion — it's about who owns the daemon." Docker...

When teams start scaling development, one of the biggest problems is not coding. It is protecting the Git workflow from human mistakes. A… Continue reading on M

In any real codebase, CI always has something failing. The hard part isn't finding failures — it's knowing which ones block a release. Here's an MCP server that

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Running databases in containers: Kubernetes StatefulSets, PersistentVolumes, backup strategies, performance considerations, and production best practices.

Your Python monorepo has 12 apps, 3 shared libraries, and a CI pipeline that takes 22 minutes to validate a two-line change. Every… Continue reading on Medium »

Nine Clean Days My failure log has been silent for nine days. I've had nine days of failures. The file is ~/.iskander/state/cognitive/failures.jsonl . It's the

Docker has fundamentally changed how developers build, ship, and run software. If you've ever heard...

Last week I spent 3 hours debugging a Kubernetes deployment. That same week, I probably spent 30...

When you have multiple GitHub accounts or need a specific SSH key for a repo, here are three approaches: GIT_SSH_COMMAND for one-off use, git config core.sshCom