How I transformed AWS’s demo retail microservices application into a production-ready, cost-optimized platform using Terraform, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and EKS Auto Mode. Background The AWS Retail Sample App is a microservices-based demo designed to showcase cloud-native workloads. While it demonstrates architecture concepts, it’s not “production-ready” out of the box. The objective of this project was…
I chatted to an engineer about how they chose what got updated, and what didn’t, for the new V8 Cyclone.
Roborock is a big player in the world of vacuum cleaners, and it’s latest release, the H60 Hub Ultra looks to be a terrific addition to its lineup. And it’s now had a 50% price drop just weeks after launching.
Gigabyte’s Aorus RTX 5060 Ti AI BOX delivers desktop GPU performance in a compact Thunderbolt 5 enclosure with docking functions.
After my own expensive lesson, I started obsessively tracking these patterns everywhere. Here are 5 real cases I’ve analyzed—and the debugging steps that could have prevented each one. Two years ago, a $200 AWS surprise nearly ended my tech journey as a student in Lagos. That painful lesson turned into obsessive cost optimization research. Now…
It’s that time again! As a maintainer of several packages on the Arch Linux User Repository (AUR), keeping my packages up-to-date is a key part of my routine. Today, I’m excited to share that I’ve successfully pushed updates for two more of my Python-based packages: python-zconfig and python-reparser. This post details the update process for…
I actually started to write about creating my own Kubernetes Operator, but decided to make a separate topic about what a Kubernetes CustomResourceDefinition is, and how creating a CRD works at the level of the Kubernetes API and the etcd. That is, to start with how Kubernetes actually works with resources, and what happens when…
Open-source AI used on phones and in cars can lose their safeguards, but university scientists find retraining these reduced models restores the protections.
LG will expand its webOS offering in vehicles, with delivery of the Xbox and Zoom apps.
FuriosaAI, which rejected Meta’s $800 million buyout offer, presented new sustainable AI demo with OpenAI in Seoul.
