Postgres on AWS RDS + EKS
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…
Fixing the OpenAI Tool Calling API
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.
Attack of the Clones
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
Pwning Kubernetes
Kubernetes is insecure by default! Let’s Pwn it to make a Pwoint (see what I did there?) 😜.
Postgres on K8s
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…
Advanced Kubernetes Scheduling and Autoscaling
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.
Mastering Spot Instances on Kubernetes for Fun and Profit
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…
Github Actions Versioning
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
EKS IP Address Assignment
It was a dark night. The wind was howling outside. Suddenly, I got a Slack message that our EKS cluster has run out of IP addresses 😱. To be continued…
First 4 Weeks
I recently joined a cool startup with some awesome people! It’s unbelievable how much happened in just 4 weeks.