In the 87th mkdev dispatch, Leo talks about the marketing approach of Anthropic and OpenAI during a recent Super Bowl ad drama. Also inside: advances in Slack's Chef Infrastructure, managing Cloudflare with IaC, and more! https://mkdev.me/posts/no-ads-isn-t-a-moral-stance-87

Welcome to DevOps Accents: our bi-weekly show on DevOps, Cloud, and AI, with hosts Pablo, Leo, and Kirill. Here are some recent highlights — find the podcast on your favorite platform!

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Service mesh shopping? This mkdev classic compares Linkerd vs Istio vs Kuma vs Consul Connect (plus a look at Cilium and OSM) across installation, data plane, mTLS, traffic control, and observability. Pick based on your environment — not hype. Read it now: https://mkdev.me/posts/the-best-service-mesh-linkerd-vs-kuma-vs-istio-vs-consul-connect-comparison-cilium-and-osm-on-top

ArgoCD Lightning Course! New to Argo CD? Here’s a solid intro to what it does, what it’s used for, and why it can be a game-changer. We also dig into features, projects, and application structure: https://mkdev.me/posts/what-is-argo-cd-and-why-would-you-need-gitops

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This post connects the decline of power users to real consequences: weaker privacy/audit ability, less resilience when platforms die, and a shrinking “builder pipeline” into engineering. A read to think about for sure: https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

GCP has hundreds of services. Picking the wrong one (Cloud Run vs App Engine, etc.) gets expensive fast. We’ll review what you run today and suggest better fits — tailored to your apps. See how it works & let’s talk: https://mkdev.me/b/audits/google-cloud-platform

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This is important also for platform engineering teams that expose a bit too many low level details to the platform users, hoping they will just pay attention to filling everything correctly: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/PeopleCannotPayAttention

In the 88th mkdev dispatch, Pablo talks about the advancements of Seedance 2.0 and the consequences of its release. Also inside: Running Claude Code dangerously, but safely, SRE as the future of software engineering, how AWS S3 is built and more! https://mkdev.me/posts/is-seedance-2-0-a-killer-88

Docker gets all the attention, but runc does the heavy lifting underneath. One of our most popular articles explains how containers really run, how OCI fits in, and why understanding the lower layers helps you debug and operate them better. Read it here: https://mkdev.me/posts/the-tool-that-really-runs-your-containers-deep-dive-into-runc-and-oci-specifications

Cloud should make things easier, not leave your team buried in endless service choices, messy configs, and rising costs. We help you find the right path in AWS, GCP, and multi-cloud environments. Check out our Public Cloud Consulting and schedule a call: https://mkdev.me/b/consulting/public-cloud