Agents as Pets: An Experiment
Most AI agent runners treat each agent as disposable cattle. I built Vinculum in a weekend to explore the opposite end of the spectrum: stateful agents you treat like pets.
Argo ApplicationSets Are Easy. Making Your App Deployable Is Not.
Per-PR preview environments with Argo CD ApplicationSets are the easy part. The hard part is making your app actually deployable on its own — the work an agent can't do for you.
Building Access Management for ISO 27001 on Keycloak
How we built a lightweight IAM solution on Keycloak to manage permissions across all our tools - driven by ISO 27001, not by budget for an enterprise product.
Vibe-Docs: Documentation Won't Make It
Traditional documentation is becoming obsolete. AI reads your actual codebase faster and more accurately than anyone reads your outdated Confluence wiki. Write clean code, document your decisions, let AI handle the rest.
Why I Ditched TypeORM for Kysely (And Why You Should Too)
I ditched TypeORM for Kysely and finally understand what my database queries are doing. Less magic, more control, actually type-safe.
Why Backstage might not be worth it
I spent months building an internal developer platform on Backstage, then scrapped it and rebuilt it in days. Here's why its plugins are just frontend displays — and when to skip it.
Setting Up EBS Storage in Your AWS EKS Cluster: A Quick Guide (Because I Tend to Forget)
A no-fluff reference for wiring up EBS storage on AWS EKS — install the CSI driver, set the IAM permissions, and make EBS the default storage class.
How Talos Won My Heart (and My Clusters)
From RKE2 with Rancher to K3s to Talos Linux: my Kubernetes journey, and why an immutable, API-driven, minimal OS finally won over me and all my clusters.
Kubernetes Operators: Streamlining Complexity in the Cloud-Native World
Kubernetes Operators package operational knowledge into software, automating the lifecycle of complex, stateful applications through Custom Resource Definitions. Here's how they work.
Backstage? I thought you were doing software engineering!
From Spotify's internal tool to a CNCF project: what Backstage is, the developer-portal problem it solves, and why platform engineering teams keep reaching for it.
backstage/sign-in-with-github
how to set up GitHub authentication and add a user to backstage