With the recent rise of AI tools usage, many fear that their workload will increase unproportionally. But is there a downside to this rise of productivity? Juan Pablo from CodeGPT talked about it in detail in the final episode of DA of last year: https://mkdev.me/posts/ai-helpers-for-developers-with-juan-pablo-from-codegpt-52

Who benefits the most from the adoption of AI tools and helpers? What teams in your company can find them useful? We analyze the present and the future of LLM usage in conversation with Juan Pablo from CodeGPT: https://mkdev.me/posts/ai-helpers-for-developers-with-juan-pablo-from-codegpt-52

Need help deciding if Argo CD is right for you? Check out our guide at https://mkdev.me/argocd and use the attached chart to make the call! Share it with your network! 🚀

We have a special relationship with Miro. We've been using their canvas tools for team collaboration and planning since they first came out, and we're big fans of their work. And now we finally got their Strategic Account Manager, Maks Semyonovykh, on our very first podcast of new 2025 season to chat about how team collaboration tools have evolved and whether they're really valuable now. Or are they just a way for managers to show they're cool and in touch with the latest trends?

Everyone's got an opinion on this, and it'll depend on your role on the team and your habits. But we've got the right opinion. What's that? Tune in to the podcast and see if our opinion matches yours. :)

The links to YouTube and Spotify inside 👇

Also in this episode:
- History of Miro;
- Online vs. Offline events;
- The rising role of AI agents;
- Using LLMs for creative work;
- Synchronous and asynchronous collaboration.

https://mkdev.me/posts/team-tools-in-the-age-of-ai-with-maks-semyonovykh-from-miro-53

Discover how Pablo Inigo Sanchez demonstrates deploying a Ruby on Rails app on Google Cloud Run, setting up a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions and Terraform, and optimizing costs by streamlining the cloud build process: https://mkdev.me/posts/google-cloud-run-with-ci-cd-via-terraform-cloud-and-github-actions #CloudRun #DevOps

Catch up with the last mkdev dispatch of last year and all the previous dispatches before it, and also sign up to get the first one of 2025 this Friday! All the best hand-picked DevOps, Cloud and AI content coming your way: https://mkdev.me/posts/the-last-one-of-2024-60

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A nice refresher on database indexes and some tips on creating them in Postgres, written by Milly Leadley: https://incident.io/blog/choosing-the-right-postgres-indexes

Was online work just a COVID necessity, or was it a growing thing of itself? What should be the balance between online and offline work events? More on this in episode 53 of DevOps Accents with Maks Semyonovykh from Miro: https://mkdev.me/posts/team-tools-in-the-age-of-ai-with-maks-semyonovykh-from-miro-53

Everyone has their take on the current place of AI and its real-life implementation. Here’s our discussion of that with Maks Semyonovykh from Miro in the latest episode of DevOps Accents: https://mkdev.me/posts/team-tools-in-the-age-of-ai-with-maks-semyonovykh-from-miro-53

Explore the seamless integration of Kubernetes with AWS! Pablo Inigo Sanchez guides you through setting up Application Load Balancers automatically with EKS Fargate. Learn to navigate VPCs, subnets, and more for a smoother cloud experience: https://mkdev.me/posts/getting-traffic-to-eks-using-alb-ingress-controller-with-amazon-eks-on-fargate

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If you have trouble following everything that is happening in LLM space, then this blog post is for you. All important releases, trends etc of 2024, well explained and with some follow up material to further entertain yourself: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/

Not everyone is a natural-born speaker. Can tools like Miro help them to work in a group? More about teamwork and brainstorming solutions in conversation with Maks Semyonovykh: https://mkdev.me/posts/team-tools-in-the-age-of-ai-with-maks-semyonovykh-from-miro-53

Our guest for episode 53 of DevOps Accents was Maks Semyonovykh from Miro. Watch this part of our talk about the role of AI in modern collaborative tools, or check out the full episode wherever you get your podcasts! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwgIJ9xWze8

What was the process like of becoming a company like Miro? Dive deeper into the history of a popular tool for collaboration in episode 53 of DevOps Accents with Maks Semyonovykh: https://mkdev.me/posts/team-tools-in-the-age-of-ai-with-maks-semyonovykh-from-miro-53

Last year, we worked with a client who developed a cutting-edge LLM architecture. It was so innovative that off-the-shelf solutions look pedestrian. It was the kind of project that gets us out of bed in the morning. However, innovation is rarely smooth sailing. Their models encountered a wall with GPU issues — bugs as cryptic as hieroglyphs.

That’s where we stepped in. We didn’t just troubleshoot the problems — we thoroughly examined the setup, addressed the hardware and infrastructure, and resolved the issues that were hindering operations. And it wasn’t just about making things work; it was about bringing their vision to life, ensuring their architecture could scale without compromise.

If you’re wondering how to make AI work for your business, let’s talk.

Join our free webinar where Paul Larsen, our Head of AI, will walk you through exactly how we approach projects like these and show you how to scale AI effectively in your organization: https://mkdev.me/webinars/scaling-ai

Dive into serverless Kubernetes with Pablo Inigo Sanchez as he explores AWS EKS Fargate and Firecracker, demonstrating how to set up from scratch and manage resources efficiently. Perfect for those looking to optimize their cloud infrastructure! https://mkdev.me/posts/serverless-kubernetes-with-aws-eks-and-fargate

Is customer support broken? Sure it is, duh.. With all those useless bots and million clicks... Together with Caolan Melvin we discuss the modern approaches to customer support and how to fix it. We have to consider the context of the times and how modern users prefer to communicate, as well as the revolutionary AI technologies that are either helping or hindering the creation of quality support. We break it down in this new episode of the DevOps Accents podcast.

Also in this episode:

- How to present your startup at an event;
- VoxMail soultions for customer support problems;
- How people interact with different types of customer support options;
- How the size of the company affects its customer support solutions;
- Will humanizing the chatbots help in the future?
- VoxMail mission.

As for the VoxMail, the solution that Caolan is working on, it lets customers leave voice messages straight on your website, which are then transcribed and even translated using AI. This means people can explain their issues or questions more naturally by just talking, and your team gets both the voice recording and a text version to handle it quickly. The name "Vox" comes from the Latin word for "voice", so it's all about giving your customers a way to speak up — literally. Vox Populi! :)

https://mkdev.me/posts/humanizing-customer-support-with-caolan-melvin-from-voxmail-54

In the 61st mkdev dispatch Kirill applies what he learned about creating systems and setting goals in his personal life to crate a work-related advice. Also inside: multi-cloud, leaving Kubernetes, migrating billions of records and more. Read now and subscribe for more! https://mkdev.me/posts/systems-and-goals-61

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How hard incrementing a counter can be? When it comes to the systems of Netflix scale - much harder than you can expect. This blog post goes into details not only of their final implementation, but also of various alternatives: https://netflixtechblog.com/netflixs-distributed-counter-abstraction-8d0c45eb66b2

Is going to an offline event beneficial for your startup? What can you do at a conference or convention that you can’t do online? Full convo in episode 54 of DevOps Accents with Caolan Melvin from VoxMail: https://mkdev.me/posts/humanizing-customer-support-with-caolan-melvin-from-voxmail-54