In the olden days 🏰 (a few years ago) upgrading a Kubernetes cluster was a stressful task 😰 that could bring the system down 💥 or at the very least cause major disruption, deployment moratorium 🚫, and significant toil for most of the engineering team 😓. I’m happy to report that this is no longer the case 🎉…

Once upon a time there was a lazy man🚶‍. Let’s call him Gigi (because that’s his name) 😊. Gigi would go to extreme lengths to avoid work. This is the story of how Gigi used browser automation 🤖 to avoid clicking the mouse 🐭 a few times on a web page.

“Laziness is the mother of invention.” ~ Anonymous

You have an AWS EKS cluster ⎈ and your workloads use a managed Postgres DB 🌐 deployed on AWS RDS. You need to access it from your laptop using your favorite DB visualization tool. What’s the best way to do it 🤷 ?

Keep reading to find out…

The design of the OpenAI tool calling API can cost you major bucks 💵. In this blog post I dive into the nuances of tool calling and show how one brave library (simple-openai) fixed it for you.

Imagine that nobody has to type git clone ever again! Can you even begin to comprehend what a gigantic improvement in the quality of life of every developer it would be? This pipe dream has just become a reality! Enter Cyclone🌀 - a little Rust program I built to make the world 🌍 a better place.

WARNING: This is a Kubernetes-free Post

Kubernetes is insecure by default! Let’s Pwn it to make a Pwoint (see what I did there?) 😜.

Your postgres DB 🌐 runs in the cloud with a private IP address. It requires a password 🔐. You need to access it from your laptop for a quick psql session. What’s the best way to do it 🤷 ? Keep reading to find out…

What do you know about the intricate web 🕷️ of interactions between advanced Kubernetes scheduling techniques and the cluster autoscaler? Probably not enough… read on to get a taste of some gnarly nuances and how to deal with them.

Spot instances are da bomb 💣!! You just have to be careful they don’t explode in your face 💥🤯 Let’s explore how to effectively use spot instances with Kubernetes…

TIL: When using un-pinned versions you must use @v. When using pinned patch versions use the exact release tag @, which may or may not have a v prefix