Mar 20 · 3 min read · 🧠 Why I Took This Challenge I wanted to move beyond tutorials and actually understand how real-world applications run in containers. So I picked a production-grade Laravel app: BookStack. Goal: 👉 Ru
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Mar 17 · 7 min read · Monitoring and observability are not the same thing. I didn't fully get that until I started contributing to OpenTelemetry. Here's what 5 merged PRs taught me that no course could. The Word Everyone
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Mar 14 · 6 min read · Kubernetes comes with many powerful built-in resources like: Pods Deployments Services ConfigMaps Secrets These resources allow us to deploy and manage applications effectively. But Kubernetes
Join discussionFeb 12 · 8 min read · Submitting Kubernetes v1.34 conformance results for Kubespray. Every Kubernetes distribution needs to prove it behaves like Kubernetes. That proof comes through the CNCF Kubernetes Conformance Program, a standardized set of 424 end-to-end tests that ...
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Feb 9 · 8 min read · What is kgateway, and Why Should You Care? If you're building cloud-native applications, you've probably encountered: Managing API traffic between services Routing requests to different LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, etc.) Implement ratelimiting o...
Join discussionFeb 9 · 1 min read · Beat 4-year costs: AI degree-level skills in 18 months Thinking about an AI or computing degree at a place like the University of Maine, but worried about 4 years on campus and tens of thousands of dollars in tuition, housing, and fees? For many stud...
Join discussionJan 22 · 8 min read · What I learned building MicroBuf, a small gRPC + NATS experiment that taught me more than 6 months of reading Medium posts Why I Built This I've been a backend engineer for about 18 months now. Most of my work has been on REST APIs—Node.js services t...
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