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?

Conferences & Hiring

Bits & Pretzels 2025 Impressions

Explaining AI Explainability: The Current Reality for Businesses

In the second article of his explainable AI series, Paul Larsen looks at what today’s XAI tools really deliver for different stakeholders—from users to regulators—and where they still fall short for trust, liability and high-risk decisions.

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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 #82] The Post-Hype Year in Tech

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In the 82nd dispatch Pablo talks about the IT industry of 2025 finally moving away from the hype cycle of 2024, the reality check for Cloud and other industry trends. Also inside: Signal's post-quantum makeover, Pipelining in psql, Kubernetes Gateway API and more!

DevOps Accents, episode 65: How Tech Hiring Really Works Now?

In this episode of DevOps Accents Kirill is back from Bits and Pretzels 2025 in Munich and is ready to discuss the conference experience with Leo and Pablo. We also talk about networking and tech hiring in 2025 and anywhere ops.