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Sourced news, in-depth analysis and hands-on tutorials across AI engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure as code and security. Every article is reviewed by a human editor.
DevOps interview preparation for 2026: a 7-week roadmap, model answers for Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, Python and MCP, and two full system design walkthroughs.
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How an SRE agent, an AI gateway, an MCP server and a shopping agent on one Minikube cluster keep scope, auth, budgets and side effects in code.
16 min read
OpenAI's AI pipeline produced 948 Linux root exploits. What that means for Kubernetes nodes, and how to go from a vendor advisory to patched EKS nodes.
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How Kubernetes grew from Google's Borg and Omega lessons into a community project: the 2014 launch, 1.0, the features that mattered, and where it is going.
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How one Traefik v3.7 pod routes jithendar.com, MOKS, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki and Argo CD on a Minikube cluster, checked against Git and the running cluster.
16 min read
How jithendar.com ties structured logs, OpenTelemetry traces and Prometheus metrics together on Kubernetes, and the gaps a review found and fixed.
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How MOKS, my AI SRE agent, traces one question through LangGraph, tools and model calls, and what a review on the live cluster found and fixed.
20 min read
Eight areas where engineering teams make the decisions that matter most right now.
Systems the editor has built, and how they work.
MOKS investigates production problems with live Kubernetes, Prometheus and Loki evidence, keeping observed facts apart from suspected causes.
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How this site works - Next.js on Minikube with PostgreSQL, Redis, Cloudflare R2, built-in admin, audit log, encrypted backups and full observability.
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A polyglot microservices store - TypeScript, Python, Java - with an AI shopping assistant, MCP tools and full observability, deployed with Argo CD.
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The rules behind the publication, so you know what you can rely on.
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Writes and edits Jithendar.com and builds the systems behind it, including RoboShop AI, a public microservices storefront with an AI shopping assistant, deployed on Kubernetes.