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A platform engineer's honest account of using Claude Code, MCP integrations, and GitOps to manage a Kubernetes cluster that has no business being run by a single person. The Absurd Premise Here are the numbers. Three Proxmox bare-metal Dell Optiplex ...
A journey through self-hosted LLMs, MCP integration challenges, and cost-effective observability The promise is compelling: connect your personal knowledge base to AI assistants while keeping everything within EU borders. No data leaving the contine...
Your Nextcloud instance holds years of notes, projects, recipes, contacts, and documents. But when you need to find something, you're stuck typing exact keywords and hoping for the best. Search "car repair" and miss that note titled "Vehicle maintena...
Nextcloud MCP Server The Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem continues to grow, and I’m excited to introduce the new Nextcloud MCP server! This server bridges the gap between your development environment and your Nextcloud instance, specifically t...
As organizations embrace streaming data, Apache Kafka has emerged as the backbone for low-latency, high-throughput event processing. This distributed streaming platform enables companies to build real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. H...
This post demonstrates how to utilize OAuth2 in Faust Streaming applications as an alternative authorization flow compared to using static API credentials. Faust is a streaming library for Python. It provides stream/event processing primitives a la K...