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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

Avoid US East 1 When Possible

“No Ads” Isn’t a Moral Stance | ✉️ #87

In the 87th mkdev dispatch, Leo talks about the marketing approach of Anthropic and OpenAI during a recent Super Bowl ad drama. Also inside: advances in Slack's Chef Infrastructure, managing Cloudflare with IaC, and more!

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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 #86] Google (Gemini) Is Impressive Now

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In the 86th mkdev dispatch, Kirill changes his opinion about Google AI services he had a few months ago. Also inside: datacenters in space, the end of terraform cdk, Ruby 4.0.0 and more!

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.