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EU AI Act Explained by Paul Larsen

Understand what you need to know about new EU legislation with this series of articles on EU AI Act and what it means for different companies.

Articles in this series

  1. 1What is the EU AI Act, and why does it matter?
  2. 2When does the EU AI Act come into force, and what does this mean for your business?
  3. 3My company is using ChatGPT. Does the AI Act Literacy requirement apply to us?
  4. 4The carrot and stick of the EU AI Act's literacy requirements: Benefits, Compliance, and Risks
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The Dockerless Course

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

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  1. 1What’s Wrong With Docker? Introduction to the Dockerless Course
  2. 2What Is a Container? Open Container Initiative Explained
  3. 3Where Container Images Are Stored: Introduction to Skopeo
  4. 4The Standards Behind the Modern Container Images
  5. 5Container Bundle Deep Dive
  6. 6runc, crun & Container Standards Wrap Up
  7. 7Buildah: A Complete Overview
  8. 8Container Managers and ContainerD
  9. 9Podman: A Complete Overview
  10. 10CRI and Cri-O
  11. 11Dockerless: Container Standards Landscape
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Argo CD Lightning Course

Learn all you need to know to start using Argo CD in a series of quick articles!

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  1. 1What is Argo CD, and why would you need GitOps?
  2. 2Argo CD Installation and Architecture
  3. 3Argo CD Clusters and Repositories - Two Core Components
  4. 4How to deploy Applications within Projects in Argo CD
  5. 5Argo CD Self-Heal, Sync Windows and Diffing
  6. 6Argo Ecosystem: Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Argo Events, Argo Rollouts, Argo Everything
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OpenShift/OKD Course

Learn the core concepts behind OpenShift 4 cluster management, starting from re-imagined installation experience down to the fundamental features that make this system special.

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  1. 1Production OpenShift Cluster in 35 Minutes: First look at OKD 4 and the new OpenShift Installer
  2. 23 Core Features of OpenShift 4 Cluster Management: Fedora CoreOS, cri-o and MachineSet API
  3. 3How to Configure OpenShift 4 Cluster Nodes: MachineConfig Operator and CoreOS
  4. 4 OpenShift 4 Troubleshooting: Your Cluster is Broken, What's Next?
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Terraform Lightning Course

Rapid introduction into Terraform and Infrastructure as Code. You will learn how to use Terraform to manage multi-cloud environments, starting with most basic concepts and going to …

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  1. 1Infrastructure as Code and How Terraform Fits Into It
  2. 2Terraform Fundamentals: State Management and Dependency Graph, Creating the First Server
  3. 3Configuring Terraform Templates: Variables and Data Resources
  4. 4Terraform Tips & Tricks, Issue 1: Format, Graph and State
  5. 5Creating Multi-cloud Terraform environment with the help of remote state backends and AWS S3
  6. 6Refactor Terraform code with Modules
  7. 7Creating Kubernetes Clusters with Terraform: Learning Provisioners
  8. 8Terraform Tips & Tricks, Issue 2: Registry, Locals and Workspaces
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Dockerless

In this series of articles Kirill Shirinkin talks about life without Docker and alternative tools you can use to perform tasks without it.

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  1. 1Dockerless, part 1: Which tools to replace Docker with and why
  2. 2Dockerless, part 2: How to build container image for Rails application without Docker and Dockerfile
  3. 3Dockerless, part 3: Moving development environment to containers with Podman
  4. 4The tool that really runs your containers: deep dive into runc and OCI specifications
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How to become a programmer: stories of our mentors

One of the most painful questions for newbies is “where do I start?”. In this series mkdev mentors will give their answers. Not only will they tell how they became programmers, but …

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  1. 1How to become a RoR web developer: Ivan Takarlikov’s story
  2. 2Where to begin as a programmer: Ilya Konovalov’s story
  3. 3How to become a RoR Developer: Stas Mehonoshin’s story
  4. 4How to become a programmer: Kirill Shirinkin's story
  5. 5How to become a Python Developer: Aleksey Kurylev's story
  6. 6How to become a Java & Spring Developer: Rinat Muhamedgaliev’s story
  7. 7How to become a QA Engineer: Pavel Konev’s story
  8. 8How to become a PHP-developer: Ruslan Kuptsov’s story
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Development of GrooveHQ Ruby Gem

In this series we will create a gem for working with API of GrooveHQ. This service doesn't have its own client API libraries. The final result is available on GitHub and rubygems …

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  1. 1How to create a gem for working with an API
  2. 2Writing an API gem: choosing the structure and the tools
  3. 3Writing an API gem: how to write tests for an external API
  4. 4Writing an API gem: What is Hypermedia API and how to make friends with it
  5. 5Writing an API gem: the final metaprogramming
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