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?

Decentralized by Design, Centralized by Convenience

Control Your AI Helper

How GPT-6 Astra Killed My Ruby on Rails App

Kirill Shirinkin handed GPT-6 Astra a long-postponed migration of mkdev.me from Ruby on Rails to Hugo and let it run with surprisingly little supervision. The result worked — but the path there was full of overengineering, impressive autonomy, missed details, and a few good lessons about what today’s most capable coding agents are actually like to work with.

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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 #93] I Robot

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In the 93rd mkdev dispatch Pablo talks about how humanoid robots are becoming a real industry in 2026, and why right-to-repair rules must cover them before buyers get locked into closed, unrepairable machines.

DevOps Accents, episode 69: Is the Internet Really Decentralized?

The internet is “decentralized”… until one cloud provider has a bad day. This time on DevOps Accents, Leo, Pablo, and Kirill break down where decentralization actually exists, where we’ve centralized by convenience, and why outages feel inevitable in today’s cloud-driven world.