I wanted a cheap, production-grade homelab Kubernetes cluster. Most cloud providers charge €70+/month just for the control plane and my setup on Hetzner Cloud runs for about €10/month using Talos Linux, Cilium, and WireGuard. Everything…
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There’s a question that comes up in a lot of infrastructure teams sooner or later: should we manage our Kubernetes resources with Terraform? I’ve quite some time thinking about this….and I would say no. I…
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There is a lot of noise right now about letting AI “fix” your infrastructure (be it via aws cli commands, or in the case for this article: kubernetes). You paste an error, the AI suggests…
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There is this decade old discussion: Cloud vs. On-Prem which is better? This article solves this debate and gives you guidelines on what to do for your business. Infrastructure exists on a spectrum of trade-offs,…
I really do enjoy coding. I always have. It’s one of those purely creative things where you sit in front of a task, think about it, and after hours or days arrive at a solution.…
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You see them in meeting rooms, at family gatherings, in government offices. They wear suits or sensible shoes or carry briefcases that suggest a kind of mastery you haven’t yet achieved. Their confident strides and…
Running a language model with the same quality of ChatGPT within your own company requires expensive hardware.
But don’t worry, there is an optimization: Quantization can drastically reduce the hardware requirements of LLMs (up to 80%). In this post, I’ll explain how it works.
Using cloud services like Microsoft Azure often raises questions about data protection, especially when it comes to processing sensitive data within the EU. Here’s an important detail you should be aware of: Even if you…
You know those days when everything feels wrong from the moment you open your eyes? When that first email hitting your inbox directly is super annoying and on top then your laptop freezes… 😡 You…
This goes to the little voice in my head: Fuck you, yes I want it enough.
Most of what you think you know about AI is probably wrong. Dead wrong. And I’m not talking about the “robots-taking-over-the-world” kind of wrong (though that’s wrong too). I’m talking about the fundamental “who’s-winning-and-why” kind of wrong.
As you integrate AI systems into critical business processes, they become a stronger target for cyberattacks. Attackers continuously develop new methods to exploit vulnerabilities in AI models, making the security of these systems a challenge.…
I witnessed this yesterday: my neighbor’s daughter stood transfixed by a butterfly landing on a fence post, her body so still she seemed part of the garden. Seconds later, she was tearing across the lawn, arms spread wide, chasing nothing but her own delight. The contrast was beautiful in its purity.
Read this article BEFORE you pitch Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, LanceDB,… to your boss. For this article, I assume you know what a vector database/index is. If not, please check out this article explainer article by…
I am currently building an AI video cutting tool (10LevelUp.com) and as a launch strategy, I want to add it to a few of those “AI Tools/There is an AI for this” website lists. They…
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Install golang in a somewhat recent version in Ubuntu is quite annoying. Here a on-line command which will do the trick for you. (Replace 1.21 with whatever version of go you want to install) What…
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Black Friday is not just for big retailers; it’s a golden opportunity for indiehackers and SaaS companies to shine. In this guide, we’ll explore why Black Friday matters for small businesses, provide top tips for…
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It is a sunny day here in Lisbon, I am walking by the central station and hear a street musician. Actually, it is a special kind of musician: The guy is a rapper. He brought…
Do you have plans how your life should look like. Laid out all nicely step-by-step in a huge-ass Excel spreadsheet? This is not how life works, or how it should work. Remember back, a year,…
If there is one thing everyone hates, it is a leader who claims to be still “one of the pack”. Is that you? If yes, you have to stop doing this. Now. I mean it.…
Are you running into any of the following postgres connection limit errors pq: sorry, too many clients already pg: too many connections for database “exampledatabase” pg: too many connections for role “examplerole” Yes? Great news:…
TLDR; I am closing down my SEO/Website performance tool vitalfrog.com. Sadly I never managed to build it into a business with a working business model. Thanks for everyone supporting it! While writing this post I…
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Time is essential to every project manager, and the ability to manage time is one thing a project manager actively works on throughout their career, and I know that is why you are reading this…
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First and foremost: This post is not about WhatsApp vs anything else, yes it is Facebook/Meta/EvilCorp, yes Signal is better 😉 This is just a short thought I have: Why is WhatsApp not doing affiliate…
First things first: I love the movement to use more privacy-friendly website analytics tools. More and more small startups are popping up and help you to move away from Google Analytics. And each and every…
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TLDR; After years of searching around I finally found a Linux backup setup that fits my needs: Borg + Vorta + BorgBase As long as I can think back, backing up my Linux system always…
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As you might already have recognized I am in favor of strong privacy technology to counter the surveillance in our current age. One pillar to archive this is to get developers thinking about this and…
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