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Lauro Müller

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3 Signals Your Monolith Is Ready to Be Split

It's not about hype, it's about solving real problems. Here are the signals to watch for.

Nov 25, 2025

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6 min read

Issue #14: Ingress NGINX is Retiring. Here's What's Next

A hands-on guide to the Gateway API, the powerful and official successor to Ingress.

Nov 18, 2025

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9 min read

Issue #13: Nailing Modern DevOps Python Interviews (From Junior to Senior #5/5)

The modern DevOps interview tests your ability to build systems, not just write code. This guide shows you how to turn every technical question into a conversation about platform design, reliability, and security.

Nov 4, 2025

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9 min read

Issue #12: AWS Was Down, How About Your Application?

Just because a single (read, the biggest) AWS region was down, it doesn't mean your application had to be. In this issue, we explore the four Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies in detail, as well as when to use each of them.

Oct 24, 2025

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12 min read

Issue #11: Build an AI agent in 5 minutes with Docker and cagent

Go beyond a single AI and learn the next paradigm in development: building and managing autonomous, specialized agent teams.

Oct 21, 2025

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11 min read

Issue #10: Thinking in Systems - Senior Python Skills That Shape Teams (From Junior to Senior #4/5)

The leap to senior isn't about writing more complex code, but about using your skills to create leverage for your entire team. In this edition, we explore how to stop just solving tickets and start building the platforms, tools, and secure patterns that make entire classes of problems disappear.

Oct 14, 2025

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13 min read

Issue #9: Starting Your DevOps Career, AI Security, and Cloud at Scale

Today we explore a practical guide for aspiring DevOps engineers, real-world examples of how AI agents can be exploited to exfiltrate confidential information, Netflix's strategy for decentralized incident response, and Airbnb's lessons from a massive zero-downtime data migration.

Oct 7, 2025

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7 min read

Issue #8: Writing Python Code Your Team Actually Wants to Work With (From Junior to Senior #3/5)

Reliability is the foundation, but reusability is how you scale your impact as an engineer. We'll bridge the gap between junior and mid-level by focusing on the mindset of building tools, and learning how to design code that is meant to be shared, configured, and built upon by everyone.

Sep 26, 2025

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16 min read

Issue #7: K8s Observability Metrics, MCP Registries, The Lethal Trifecta, and More

In this issue, we unpack a curated list of articles covering the essential topics of the week. We're looking at the "lethal trifecta" in AI security, the discoverability of AI tools with MCP registries, and a fresh take on Kubernetes observability.

Sep 23, 2025

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9 min read

Issue #6: What the New GPT-5 Codex CLI Teaches Us about Prompt Engineering

In this edition, we're peeking under the hood of OpenAI's latest tool to uncover powerful prompting techniques you can use today to get better results.

Sep 19, 2025

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7 min read

Issue #5: Repo of the Week - The OpenAI Cookbook

Discover a handpicked selection of examples from the official OpenAI Cookbook, designed to take your prompt engineering skills from theory to practice. Dive into these notebooks, start experimenting with the code, and take your generative AI skills to the next level.

Sep 16, 2025

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7 min read

Issue #4: More AI Agents, Fewer Jobs

Connecting the dots between DevOps, Cloud, and AI to help you stay relevant and build systems that work in the real world.

Sep 12, 2025

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8 min read

Issue #3: Beyond Copy-Pasting: Essential Junior-Level Python Skills (From Junior to Senior Series #2/5)

The skills and mindset that form the foundation of good scripting and automation

Sep 5, 2025

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12 min read

Issue #2: Kubernetes 1.34, GitHub Copilot Models, Policy as Code, and much more

Connecting the dots between DevOps, Cloud, and AI to help you stay relevant and build systems that work in the real world.

Sep 2, 2025

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6 min read

Issue #1: Where Do You Really Stand? The DevOps Python Skills Self-Assessment (From Junior to Senior Series #1/5)

Understand the differences between Junior and Senior Python devs, and get a realistic assessment of where you stand in the journey.

Aug 29, 2025

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15 min read

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