#mkdevWeeklyHighlight.For a fully-managed #Kubernetes cluster, EKS Auto Mode still requires some understanding of tools like #Karpenter, CSI drivers and more:

In the new Dockerless Course lesson, Kirill introduces Buildah, the rootless tool for building container images without needing Docker or a privileged daemon. You’ll learn how to build images both via Containerfiles and manual shell scripting:

We've worked with a wide range of infrastructure setups and team configurations — many of which we helped design or optimize. There's always room to improve. We know what great looks like and can help you achieve it. Check out mkdev Audits:

In the 72nd mkdev dispatch Leo analyses the path our cognitive skills are on due to recent technological advancements. Also: the real failure rate of EBS, scaling Prometheus, preventing outages at Google and other interesting articles from around the web:

#mkdevWeeklyHighlight.Even though this article has a strong focus on Terraform Cloud, the actual practices that allowed Benchling to improve their setup are not tool-specific. A rare breakdown of a real world large scale Terraform setup!

Tired of managing OpenAI configs by hand? mkdev just open-sourced a Terraform provider that lets you automate everything—from API keys to generative AI workflows—all as code. Read the article to see how it turns infra and AI into one seamless experience:

#mkdevWeeklyHighlight.In a 3-part series, Planetscale shares the specifics and considerations of implementing a throttler. It’s focused on a database system throttler, but the lessons are generally applicable:

94% of companies overspend on cloud—don’t be one of them. In this article, Kirill Shirinkin shows how to combine AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Trusted Advisor to track, control, and cut your cloud spending. Read it and start saving today:

🔐 Multiverse Computing, one of the Top 100 AI companies, needed a secure, scalable identity solution—fast. They partnered with mkdev to integrate a cloud-native system without slowing down core AI innovation. Read about the result in our Case Study 👉

#mkdevWeeklyHighlight.Klaviyo engineering walks through how they used bloom filters to provide quick and reliable product recommendations, with the help of Redis:

In the 71st dispatch Kirill tries to measure the pros and cons of live voice to text transcription in creative tasks. What is your experience? Also inside: using Airflow to reduce AWS bills, getting forked by Microsoft, premature optimization and more!

mkdev Consulting includes, but is not limited to: Cloud Native Consulting, AI & Data Consulting, DevOps Consulting. Check out our Consulting page for all the options and details, and schedule a call there and then:

#mkdevWeeklyHighlight.We used to recommend using CloudFlare for such functionality. As of now, if you are running on AWS, you should at least evaluate this new CloudFront capability instead:

In this Dockerless Course lesson, Kirill Shirinkin shows how to run containers with runc and crun, the runtimes behind tools like Docker. Discover what really happens under the hood — and why it matters. Deepen your container skills and understanding:

Want to learn Terraform? We’ve got it! Argo CD? We’ve got it! OpenShift? Helm? All of them and more, we’ve got you covered! Check out all the free courses by mkdev on our Courses page:

Worried about surprise AWS data transfer costs? Kirill Shirinkin breaks down where those charges come from and shares smart strategies to avoid them. Read this to stay in control of your cloud bill:

#mkdevWeeklyHighlight.We’d rather name this post "in defense of Terraform Monolith", as the author, Malcolm Matalka, provides many good arguments on why a single repository and single state can be a good solution in certain scenarios:

In the 70th mkdev dispatch Pablo talks about recent advancements in real-time voice translation and its implications for our picture of the future as we imagined it in the last century:

In this lesson, Kirill Shirinkin shows how to unpack a container image into a runnable bundle using umoci. It’s a hands-on look at what makes containers work—without Docker. Read it to deepen your understanding of container internals.

What is the next step for the developer of the future? Check out the full conversation with Tammuz Dubnov from AutonomyAI in episode 61 of DevOps Accents: