Content by mkdev

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AI Strategy Guide: How to Scale AI Across Your Business

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Evolution of Capacity Management: From Bare Metal to Kubernetes

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Processing Background Jobs on AWS: Lambda vs ECS vs ECS Fargate

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The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Cost Optimization

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The carrot and stick of the EU AI Act

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What is the EU AI Act?

Kubernetes Innovation

Terraform Won. Kubernetes Won. Your Tech Choices Are Over.

Unlimited image generation with Nano Banana Pro and custom Claude Code Skill

Nano Banana Pro might be the best image gen model right now — but the real trick is how Kirill wired it into Claude Skills. 100+ icon iterations, 4K control, self-critiquing generations, and sane context handling. $45 well spent.

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Announcing the Open Source Terraform Provider for OpenAI

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Tired of managing OpenAI configs by hand? mkdev just open-sourced a Terraform provider that lets you automate everything—from API keys to generative AI workflows—all as code. Read the article to see how it turns infrastructure and AI into one seamless experience.

Dockerless

Re-explore containers from open standards perspective: learn all about Open Container Initiative (OCI) and how to see containers for what they really are.

[mkdev dispatch #83] The Internet Is CloudFlare

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In the 83rd mkdev dispatch, Kirill talks about the recent CloudFare outage and what it means for the modern Internet. Also inside: Amazon API Gateway Portal, Husky's query engine, zero downtime database migrations and more!

DevOps Accents, episode 66: Is Kubernetes an Engineering Choice or a Must

In this episode of DevOps Accents, Kirill previews for Leo his speech for DevOps Pro Europe 2026. He examines the rise of Kubernetes as a near-requirement in tech—for both organizations and professionals—and why its dominance has surprisingly little to do with scaling, microservices, or capacity concerns.