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: https://mkdev.me/posts/understanding-aws-data-transfer-costs

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: https://mkdev.me/courses

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. Read the lesson to deepen your container skills and understanding: https://mkdev.me/posts/runc-crun-container-standards-wrap-up

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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: https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/aws/reduce-your-operational-overhead-today-with-amazon-cloudfront-saas-manager/

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: https://mkdev.me/b/consulting

In the 71st mkdev 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! https://mkdev.me/posts/voice-mode-and-dictation-71

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Klaviyo engineering walks through how they used bloom filters to provide quick and reliable product recommendations, with the help of Redis: https://klaviyo.tech/bloom-filters-supercharged-product-recommendations-711d65c0a1b3

🔐 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. The result? Seamless migration, faster feature delivery, and a future-proof platform.

Case study 👉 https://mkdev.me/b/cases/mvc-case-study

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: https://mkdev.me/posts/built-in-aws-tools-for-cost-analysis-and-optimization

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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: https://planetscale.com/blog/anatomy-of-a-throttler-part-1

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 infrastructure and AI into one seamless experience: https://mkdev.me/posts/announcing-the-open-source-terraform-provider-for-openai

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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! We wish they would share more about the actual code structure: https://benchling.engineering/how-we-run-terraform-at-scale-da7bb75dc394

In the 72nd mkdev dispatch Leo analyses the path our cognitive skills are on due to recent technological advancements. Also inside: the real failure rate of EBS, scaling Prometheus, preventing outages at Google and other interesting articles from around the web: https://mkdev.me/posts/chat-gpt-is-causing-cognitive-decline-72

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 for your business: https://mkdev.me/b/audits

In this new Dockerless Course lesson, Kirill Shirinkin 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, and why Buildah is perfect for CI/CD automation. Read the lesson to master container building in a more secure and modular way! https://mkdev.me/posts/buildah-a-complete-overview

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For a fully-managed #Kubernetes cluster, EKS Auto Mode still requires some understanding of tools like #Karpenter, CSI drivers and more: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/under-the-hood-amazon-eks-auto-mode/

DevOps Accents is our podcast about all things DevOps, Cloud and AI, including interviews with experts from mkdev, mkinf, Iximiuz Labs, Embrace, Datadog, logz.io, Puppet and many other companies. Catch up with 60+ episode catalogue on https://mkdev.me/categories/podcast or wherever you get your podcasts!

In the 73rd mkdev dispatch Pablo announces our new Open Source Terraform Provider for OpenAI and shares some insights into the project. Also inside: the pros and cons of Lambdalith, observing machine learning workloads on Amazon EKS, Config Data Monitoring and more! https://mkdev.me/posts/we-are-happy-73

This lesson from Kirill Shirinkin’s Dockerless Course explains what a container manager is and why tools like Podman and ContainerD matter. It’s a quick guide to the layers behind Docker. Read it to better understand what really runs your containers: https://mkdev.me/posts/container-managers-and-containerd

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Bare Metal world also gets sweet automations and evolutions. Railway guys share some of the later innovations they introduced to their data centers: https://blog.railway.com/p/data-center-build-part-two

From providing training on the Service Mesh for Allianz Direct to optimizing Babbel’s cloud infrastructure: all of mkdev’s case studies can be found on our Cases page — https://mkdev.me/b/cases

Check it out to research our history and give us a call if your company needs help!