Unix, Linux, & Cloud!
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AWS’s new CloudWatch Prometheus collector isn’t new tech: it’s the 2023 AMP scraper pointed at a new destination, now with EC2, ECS, and MSK support too.
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A practitioner’s walkthrough of Anthropic’s SKILL.md format: what it is, when it earns its place, the exact file structure, and where teams get it wrong.
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Uber burned its 2026 AI budget by April. The token bill is the meter you can see — the one eroding your debugging skill doesn’t send an invoice. Both matter.
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“AI agent” gets used loosely — this guide fixes that. A plain-English explainer for beginners and IT pros: what agents are, how the perceive-reason-act loop works, key terms like tools, skills, and MCP, when NOT to use one, plus practical cost and security guardrails.
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Tired of re-explaining your project to Claude every session? A CLAUDE.md file gives Claude persistent context that loads automatically. This beginner’s guide covers what it is, where the files live, the load order, a sample file, and how to keep it lean.
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Lambda has quietly kept a second copy of your deployment code all along. A new setting lets your own S3 bucket be the single, auditable source of truth.
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Browser notebooks and AI coding sandboxes need a live session between requests. Lambda can’t hold state, EC2 is overkill. MicroVMs sit right in that gap.
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Security teams burn hours pivoting through CloudTrail and VPC flow logs per GuardDuty finding. A new AI agent now runs that whole investigation for you.
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In this post, I share my journey transitioning from Amazon Linux 2 to Bottlerocket as the EKS node OS, aiming for enhanced security with a hardened OS image.
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From scaling Kubernetes, observability, powering huge AI projects to real stories from PepsiCo, Flipkart, and Intuit, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 in Hyderabad was a deep dive into where cloud-native ecosystem is headed. Here’s my personal experience about the event.