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How to Patch Linux Servers Using Ansible (Playbook Walkthrough)

One Ansible playbook for Ubuntu and RHEL: rolling batches with serial, reboots only when required, and pre- and post-checks that stop a bad rollout early.

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Kubernetes Monitoring: A Layer-by-Layer Guide

What to monitor in Kubernetes, from control plane and etcd to workloads, plus eBPF tracing with a DaemonSet, collection patterns and alerting that works.

How to Structure a Second Brain for AI Agents

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How to Structure a Second Brain for AI Agents

Every knowledge method ever written assumes you wake up tomorrow still being yourself. An agent doesn't, and that changes the whole design.

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Do We Have AI Under Control? How We Govern an AI Workforce

In March 2025 I asked whether we really have AI under control. Sixteen months running an AI workforce later: you govern the harness, not the model.

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“IT is far too expensive” – and why the bill lands on the wrong desk

The licence price is the smallest number. Why cost control does not come from more central IT governance, but from named owners.

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AI Agent Memory: How We Give Stateless Agents Continuity

An agent run is a process, not a person — it starts, works, exits, and forgets. Here's the workplace we built around that: five memory stores across Slack, a calendar and a per-agent Second Brain, and the rules that keep them from rotting.

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Cut your observability bill at the source

Today we're launching LinkMesh — a control plane for your OpenTelemetry collector fleet that lets you drop the noise, redact the risk, and route what's left, before a single byte leaves your network.

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Application Observability Tracing Auto Instrumentation

Exploring Application Observability in 2025: Can we achieve true zero-code distributed tracing & auto-instrumentation on Linux VMs? Tested OpenTelemetry Injector, eBPF tools like Beyla/OTel eBPF, and more. Progress is huge, but not fully magical yet.

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Observability - Reliability and Consistency with OpenTelemetry Weaver

OpenTelemetry Weaver (v0.16.1) revolutionizes observability by enforcing Semantic Conventions in CI/CD pipelines. This CLI tool validates telemetry data, generates type-safe SDKs, and auto-documents signals, ensuring consistent, governable observability across systems.

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Deploying Kafka in Production: From Zero to Hero (Part 3)

Building a secure, scalable Kafka cluster on GCP with TLS encryption, mTLS authentication, and ACLs. Part 3 of our series explores a production-ready message bus setup on Docker, paving the way for enterprise-grade OAuth in Part 4.

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Deploying Kafka in Production: From Zero to Hero (Part 1)

Learn how to spin up a single-node Apache Kafka with Docker, forming the solid foundation for a robust message bus on GCP. This post covers minimal configurations, basic ZooKeeper setup, and real-time streaming, setting the stage for advanced security and scalability.

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AI On Premise - Part 2 Practice

Feed all your sensitive data into an AI knowledge base, that can answer your questions? No problem - as long it is running in house. Weaviate for AI-Powered Knowledge Management On Premise.

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AI On Premise - Part 1 Theory

Weaviate for AI-Powered Knowledge Management On Premise. Discover how Weaviate, an AI-powered vector search engine, revolutionizes knowledge management.

Azure AI - Automatically capture form data with artificial intelligence

Azure AI - Automatically capture form data with artificial intelligence

Revolutionize your expense recording process effortlessly using Microsoft Form Recognizer, an AI-powered document extraction service. This Azure-based solution seamlessly recognizes, extracts, and labels data from scanned or photographed receipts, converting them into JSON format.

Journey to an intelligent Azure Chat Bot - Part 5

Journey to an intelligent Azure Chat Bot - Part 5

In this blog series we build a versatile and useful chatbot based on azure, microsoft bot framework, nodejs, teams, chatgpt. Today - Dialog Design, Prompts, Validation and custom API Integrations.

Journey to an intelligent Azure Chat Bot - Part 2

Journey to an intelligent Azure Chat Bot - Part 2

In this blog series we build a versatile and useful chatbot based on azure, microsoft bot framework, nodejs, teams, chatgpt. Today - Deploy Chatbot to Azure with an automated CICD Pipeline

Journey to an intelligent Azure Chat Bot - Part 1

Journey to an intelligent Azure Chat Bot - Part 1

In this blog series we build a versatile and useful chatbot based on azure, microsoft bot framework, nodejs, teams, chatgpt. Follow along on the journey