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Personal notes on systems engineering and IT: guides, deep dives, dissections, and sometimes reflections.

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AWS Lambda MicroVMs

Zero to llama.cpp: Run Local LLMs on Windows with AMD GPUs

Project: bumpflow

What's inside the pkpass file?

"I think I suck at my job"

Migrating from ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway: A Practical Kubernetes Guide

2025 in review

Advent of Sysadmin 2025

Secure Your Wi-Fi Privacy: Randomize MAC Address with Bash

Centralized EKS monitoring across multiple AWS accounts

ARG:2025

Solving EKS Cluster Games

Kubernetes to RDS: secure connections via IAM roles without passwords

EKS Auto Mode custom NodeClasses and NodePools

Solving The Big IAM Challenge

CI/CD guide: store Playwright test results in AWS S3

Installing Python dependencies in AWS Lambda: easy pip guide

Bash functions

Everything* as code

A Beginner's Guide to AWS S3 Block Public Access

Deploying React application with AWS Amplify

Hidden files in an S3 bucket

How to minimize docker image size: 4 key approaches

Solving Sad Servers scenarios: part 2

First year overview

Solving Sad Servers scenarios: part 1

AWS open-sourced Secrets Manager Agent: what does that mean?

Checking IAM policy length using Terraform

Story time: how I locked myself out of root account and how I fixed it

Signing your git commits with GPG key

Linux battery management

CKA or not CKA: my thoughts about certification and stuff

Git hooks: a painless way to use them

Server's first aid kit: a quick way to determine if your server is alive and well

Bash aliases and why I love them

Landing and blog: how-to and why at all

Automatic git commit

Using AWS Parameter Store instead of Gitlab CICD Variables

Ready player one