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  <description>Notes on Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GitOps, observability and AI developer tools from Rajesh Sood, a Staff Cloud &amp; DevOps Engineer.</description>
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    <title>KEDA and Karpenter on GKE: Event-Driven Autoscaling</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>I Built a Runbook Search Tool That Cites Sources</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>It’s 2:47 AM, PagerDuty just fired, and you know you wrote a runbook for this exact situation months ago — you just can’t remember where.</description>
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    <title>Optimizing Cursor for Consumption Pricing</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>If you log into Cursor soon, you are going to notice a massive shift under the hood.</description>
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    <title>Ultimate Guide to Model Context Protocol (MCP)</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The AI landscape shifted dramatically with the introduction of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) , open-sourced by Anthropic.</description>
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    <title>Free Network Troubleshooting Tool That Runs Entirely in Your Browser</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>When something breaks at 2am, the last thing you want is six tabs open trying to figure out whether it&#x27;s DNS, SSL, or the site just being down.</description>
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    <title>Running Ollama Locally: LLMs on Your Laptop</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Run ChatGPT-level AI locally using Ollama. No subscriptions, no data leaks, no internet required.</description>
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    <title>Mastering Claude Code: Basics to Agentic Flows</title>
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    <description>Anthropic’s Claude Code stands out for one reason: it lives in your terminal and behaves like a real engineering partner.</description>
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    <title>AI Document Pipeline with AWS ECS &amp; Bedrock</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>In today’s data-driven world, processing and extracting insights from documents at scale is a common challenge.</description>
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    <title>DevOps learnings from The Phoenix and Unicorn Project</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Ever feel like your AI/ML projects are a mythical beast — part unicorn dream, part phoenix inferno?</description>
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    <title>Building an End-to-End MLOps Pipeline on AWS SageMaker</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>An open-source pipeline that automates training on SageMaker end to end — Terraform for infra, Docker for a custom PyTorch model.</description>
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    <title>Exploring Cursor CLI: An AI-Powered Terminal</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>If you’ve spent way too many hours glued to the terminal, you know how clunky it feels to switch contexts for AI help on your code.</description>
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    <title>Advanced Tips and Tricks for Cursor IDE</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>I’ve been using Terraform, Python, Bash, Kubernetes, and Jenkins for years — lately, Cursor IDE has become my go-to for boosting productivity.</description>
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    <title>AI-Powered IDEs: Cursor vs Windsurf vs Kiro</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>As a developer, I can tell you: AI-powered IDEs are a godsend.</description>
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    <title>Simplifying Kubernetes with ArgoCD: Your Go-To GitOps Solution</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Managing Kubernetes deployments across multiple environments can feel like herding cats.</description>
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    <title>AI Document Processing System: MCP, ECS &amp; S3</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How I built a serverless architecture that lets AI models intelligently fetch and summarize documents from S3 using the Model Context Protocol</description>
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    <title>Managing AWS Infra with Crossplane vs Terraform</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>For years, I’ve used Terraform to manage cloud infrastructure. It’s powerful and battle-tested — but I always felt there was a gap.</description>
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    <title>Building Large Language Models (LLMs) in Machine Learning</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, enabling text generation, summarization, and code completion.</description>
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    <title>Building and Deploying LLMs: A Real-World Guide</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT, LLaMA, and Falcon have revolutionized AI-powered applications, enabling chatbots, content generation, and more.</description>
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    <title>Deploying a Text-Gen AI App with AWS EKS &amp; GitOps</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>A real-world implementation of a text generation AI app powered by a Generative AI API — OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, or Hugging Face.</description>
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    <title>Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline with Terraform</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>An end-to-end Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline with Terraform for a sample e-commerce application, using advanced patterns.</description>
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    <title>Crossplane Automation for Cloud-Native Apps</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>As cloud-native applications continue to evolve, managing multi-cloud and hybrid environments efficiently becomes critical.</description>
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    <title>Troubleshooting Kubernetes Deployments</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestration platform, but managing and troubleshooting deployments can be challenging.</description>
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    <title>Cloud Security Engineer Job Responsibilities: A Comprehensive Guide</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>With the rise of cloud computing, security has become a top concern for organizations.</description>
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    <title>Immutable Infrastructure with Blue-Green Deployments using Terraform</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Immutable Infrastructure ensures deployed instances remain unchanged after deployment, reducing configuration drift and improving stability.</description>
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    <title>Mastering MySQL: Basics, Advanced Commands, and Best Practices</title>
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    <description>MySQL is one of the most widely used relational database management systems (RDBMS) in the world.</description>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>SSL certificates are crucial for encrypting web traffic and ensuring secure communication between clients and servers.</description>
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    <title>AWS Databases: Types &amp; Best Practices</title>
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    <description>AWS offers a wide range of database solutions for different workloads — from relational databases to NoSQL and in-memory databases.</description>
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    <title>Open Policy Agent (OPA): A Security Guide</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Security, compliance, and policy enforcement are crucial aspects of managing cloud and containerized environments.</description>
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    <title>Generative AI Skills Roadmap for DevOps Engineers</title>
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    <description>Generative AI is reshaping industries, and DevOps/Cloud Engineers are no exception.</description>
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    <title>Kubernetes Management: A Comprehensive Guide with Real-World Examples</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Managing a Kubernetes environment requires expertise in handling Pods, Clusters, Services, Monitoring, Namespaces, Deployments, Configurations, and Secrets.</description>
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    <title>Kubernetes Pods Failing: Advanced Troubleshooting</title>
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    <description>Kubernetes (K8s) is a powerful container orchestration tool, but even experienced DevOps engineers encounter failing pods.</description>
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    <title>Deploying an App with AWS EKS, Terraform &amp; ArgoCD</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>In modern DevOps workflows, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices streamline software delivery.</description>
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    <title>Deploying a Sample App with AWS EKS &amp; Terraform</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>In modern DevOps workflows, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines play a crucial role in ensuring scalable, repeatable, and automated deployments.</description>
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    <title>Setting Up AWS SageMaker Studio &amp; Training</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>AWS SageMaker is a fully managed service that allows developers and data scientists to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models at scale.</description>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is revolutionizing how developers define cloud infrastructure.</description>
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    <title>Azure DevOps: The Ultimate Guide</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Azure DevOps has become a go-to platform for managing CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and agile workflows.</description>
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    <title>Mastering HTTP Proxy Servers: Apache vs. Nginx</title>
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    <description>In modern web architectures, HTTP proxy servers play a crucial role in load balancing, caching, security, and request routing.</description>
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    <title>Argo CD: The Ultimate GitOps Continuous Deployment Tool</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>In the modern DevOps landscape, GitOps has emerged as a revolutionary approach to continuous delivery.</description>
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    <title>Azure Automation &amp; DevOps Pipeline Optimization</title>
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    <description>In today’s cloud-driven world, automating operational tasks and optimizing CI/CD pipelines is crucial for efficient DevOps practices.</description>
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    <title>Flux CD: A GitOps Continuous Deployment Tool for Kubernetes</title>
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    <description>In the cloud-native era, GitOps has become the de facto standard for managing Kubernetes deployments.</description>
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