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A step by step walkthrough with all the commands of upgrading from PG 13 to PG 16. Worth bookmarking for the future: zurl.co/CSgY0
December 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Is Kubernetes innovation slowing down, and what does that mean for the trade-offs between managed and self-hosted setups? Full conversation in DevOps Accents 66: zurl.co/AqUXN
December 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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A useful guide on how to see the data for what it is: zurl.co/zfPVi
December 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Learn THE SECRET of how to become a speaker at a conference. Only joking, it’s not that hard. Check out the full episode of DevOps Accents: zurl.co/Ds7oD
December 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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This must be the first exciting none traditional Terraform state usage we saw in a couple of years: zurl.co/hqOW7
December 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Are big conferences a good place to get hired? Check out the full discussion in episode 65 of DevOps Accents: zurl.co/c8Z5r
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Since April, Montana is the first U.S. state to enshrine ‘Right to Compute’ into law. Thanks, Governor Dutton! zurl.co/Ag6jF
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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An entertaining (but probably not for everyone) walk through how environment variables work: zurl.co/PKymx
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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It’s features like this, not more Bedrock stuff, that makes us excited about AWS again: zurl.co/bpQnt
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Most famous use case for RDS Proxy is probably still "Lambdas", so it's nice to see a bit more traditional usage of this proxy, at scale: zurl.co/Dzk00
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Numbers are impressive - the question is when we can get this as a default config, so that we don't need to activate this mode ourselves: zurl.co/SfwRN
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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This is smart: use S3 to transfer big amounts of data between A and B, due to the way S3 is priced. Definitely useful for big migrations that would otherwise cost a lot of data egress fees: zurl.co/MHeGK
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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As always, major Postgres releases bring a load of new features and improvements. Tudor Golubenco from Xata does a great job of giving us an overview together with practical examples: zurl.co/XoJBC
October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Why are the reasoning models currently the default? They are too slow! More on how our brain interacts with Chat GPT and others in episode 64 of DevOps Accents with Paul Larsen: zurl.co/iT0zx
October 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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This is great, we don’t need to make everyone install extra tooling required to open up console sessions to our containers: zurl.co/EtwsS
October 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
How to assess your error budget for core cognitive abilities? In episode 64 of DevOps Accents, Paul Larsen, our Head of Data & AI, is back to discuss with Leo recent studies from Microsoft and MIT about ChatGPT and critical thinking: zurl.co/AGTPf
October 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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This is seriously cool stuff that will simplify certificate management a lot and remove at least one component from your K8s clusters: zurl.co/1ToXB
September 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
97% of your org are data consumers. Only ~3% are data engineers or data scientists.
Suzanne El-Moursi explains that the real challenge isn’t building more charts, it’s serving the 97% of employees who rely on data to make decisions every day. Full episode:
mkdev.me/posts/data-s...
September 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Docker made containers popular. OCI made them portable. But at scale you need more: orchestration, networking, storage.

In the final #Dockerless chapter: CRI, CNI, CSI, Kata Containers: the future of a standardized, open infra ecosystem. Link below 👇

#Kubernetes #CloudNative
September 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Prompt engineering is the new English.
Words = interface to AI.

Now language skills matter more than ever when working with models and agents. In this DevOps Accents episode with Suzanne EL-Moursi we unpack Data Science 2.0: mkdev.me/posts/data-s...
#DataScience #AI #DevOps #podcast #DevOpsAccents
September 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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What does it take to crawl 1 billion pages in 2025? On AWS, following the architecture the author came up with: 25 hours; $500 and 12 EC2 instances. Check out the full article to see how: zurl.co/fVEeX
September 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Episode 62 of DevOps Accents with Mark Fussell from Diagrid & Dapr available now! The place of sidecar architecture now and in the future, and many other topics discussed: zurl.co/070PP
August 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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What you would usually use a front end framework for can now be achieved with CSS and vanilla JavaScript. Lack of framework means simpler builds, faster delivery and less moving pieces, dependency management and maintenance: zurl.co/Anmpr
August 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
From the times of the client-server model to 2025: check out our conversation with with Mark Fussell from Diagrid & Dapr in episode 62 of #DevOpsAccents: zurl.co/NPXws
August 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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DSQL is now generally available and is entirely per-usage based. Apparently, inserting 12 000 000 rows with 800mb of storage will cost you less than a dollar per month: zurl.co/DEgVg
August 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM