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Recent Posts
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Backstage in a weekend: an IDP and golden paths for a small team
An Internal Developer Platform isn't only for enterprises: a minimal Backstage in docker-compose with one Software Template gives a service catalog and a 'new service in one click' win already at 3-5 engineers. What it takes and where the traps are.
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AI SRE agents in 2026: what they actually do and where they break
AWS DevOps Agent and Azure SRE Agent both hit GA in March 2026. We break down the working model of AI SRE agents: what they actually do (triage, correlation, runbook execution), where they break, and how to build human-in-the-loop with approval gates so the agent stays a co-pilot instead of a new source of incidents.
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CloudNativePG in production: HA, backups, and major upgrades without downtime
Standing up CloudNativePG is easy — production begins on day-2. We cover automatic failover and split-brain protection, ScheduledBackup and PITR restore (Barman Cloud Plugin), the metrics that actually matter, minor and major upgrades without a long downtime, and why prod rests on a tested restore, not a configured backup.
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CloudNativePG: production-ready Postgres on Kubernetes without voodoo
CloudNativePG turns "Postgres in k8s" from an anti-pattern into a normal way to keep the database next to the app: one Cluster CR gives you a primary and replicas, automatic failover, S3 backups via the Barman Cloud Plugin, and PgBouncer through Pooler. We walk through a 3-pod manifest, the storage traps, and how to test failover.