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Docker Development Workflows That Actually Work
Stop fighting Docker in local dev: multi-stage builds, bind mounts, Compose overrides, and the patterns that make containers feel native.
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CI/CD Pipelines That Don't Get in Your Way
How to design CI/CD pipelines that are fast, reliable and genuinely trusted by your team: caching, parallelism, environment parity and deploy strategies.
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Monitoring and Alerting Strategies That Reduce Alert Fatigue
Design monitoring and alerting that surfaces real problems: SLO-based alerts, symptom detection, routing hierarchies, runbook automation and noise reduction.
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Kubernetes Probes: Liveness, Readiness and Startup
Configure Kubernetes liveness, readiness and startup probes correctly to prevent cascading failures, avoid restart loops and route traffic only when ready.
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Pulumi and TypeScript for Cloud Infrastructure
A hands-on guide to managing cloud infrastructure with Pulumi and TypeScript: resource composition, state, secrets handling and testing infrastructure code.
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GitOps with Flux and ArgoCD: Infrastructure by Pull Request
A practical guide to GitOps with Flux and ArgoCD: repository structure, drift detection, automated reconciliation and progressive delivery by pull request.
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Zero-Downtime Deployments: Blue-Green and Canary
A practical guide to zero-downtime deployment strategies: blue-green deployments, canary releases and rolling updates with automated rollback.
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Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi: Beyond Terraform
A practical comparison of Pulumi and Terraform: how general-purpose languages enable abstractions, testing and composition that HCL cannot express.
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Service Mesh Fundamentals: Istio and Linkerd in Practice
Service mesh architecture through Istio and Linkerd: traffic management, mutual TLS, observability and circuit breaking — and when it is not worth it.
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Observability Stack: Metrics, Logs and Traces in Practice
Set up a full observability stack with Prometheus metrics, structured JSON logging and OpenTelemetry tracing, and see how each signal connects to the others.
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GitOps: Managing Infrastructure Through Pull Requests
GitOps workflows that manage Kubernetes infrastructure through pull requests with ArgoCD and Flux: repo structure, sync policies, health checks, rollbacks.
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Kubernetes Resource Management and Autoscaling Strategies
Kubernetes resource requests, limits, QoS classes, Horizontal and Vertical Pod Autoscalers and cluster autoscaling, balanced for cost and reliability.
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