When I started incorporating AI tools into my workflow, I was first frustrated. I didn’t get the 5x or 10x gains others raved about on social. In fact, it slowed me down. But I persisted. Partly because I see it as my professional duty as a software engineer to be as productive as possible, partly because I’d volunteered to be a guinea pig in my organization. After wrestling with it for some time, I finally got my breakthrough discovery—the way to use AI tools well involves the same disciplines we’ve applied in software development for decades: Break work down into…
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This article explains how to use the Arconia framework to enhance the developer experience with Spring Boot. This project is a recent initiative under active development. However, it caught my attention because of one feature I love in Quarkus and found missing in Spring Boot. I am referring to a solution called Dev Services, which is likely familiar to those of you who are familiar with Quarkus. Dev Services supports the automatic provisioning of unconfigured services in development and test mode. Similar to Quarkus, Arconia is based on Testcontainers and also uses Spring Boot Testcontainers support. To learn how Spring…
AlertD this week emerged from stealth to launch a DevOps platform that leverages generative artificial intelligence (AI) to provide deeper insights into Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments by automatically generating dashboards that make it possible to more easily discover and visualize issues. Fresh off raising $3 million in initial funding, AlertD CEO Geoff Hendrey said […]
Python is one of the most accessible programming languages for beginners, and it is used in various applications, including data analysis, web applications, automation, testing, and more. If you’ve already started with Python basics, you might be wondering a very practical question: Is Python enough to get a job?The short answer is: Python can open doors to your first role, especially at the entry level, but it usually needs to be combined with projects, core computer skills, and a clear story on your resume.This article walks through where Python helps, which kinds of Python job roles are realistic, how college…
My friends, I’ve been around long enough in the world of DevOps, cybersecurity and cloud-native to see the “next big thing” fade into “just another dashboard.” But today I’m here to tell you: observability isn’t just another tool—it might very well be the killer app of our era. The Rise of Observability Remember when “monitoring” […]
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Docker + Unsloth: Build Custom Models, Faster Building and Running Custom Models Is Still Hard Running AI models locally is still hard. Even as open-source LLMs grow more capable, actually getting them to run on your machine, with the right dependencies, remains slow, fragile, and inconsistent. There’s two sides to this challenge: Model creation and optimization: making fine-tuning and quantization efficient. Model…
When I created the website on WordPress, I was expecting all the features I had on our WordPress.com which powers this website. As I called out in my previous post, this is not the case. I wanted a way to allow people to subscribe to my content. It turns out that I needed an email marketing solution which was quite a surprise.The search is onI had a very basic list of needs.A way to subscribeSubscriber managementEmail subscribersThe first platform recommended by WPBeginner whose parent company is the source for many of my plug ins was Constant Contact. I then looked…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes how AI agents access tools, APIs and data. Learn how SREs can leverage MCP to build smarter, automated workflows.
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