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Don’t miss this: you don’t need DynamoDB table for state-locking anymore. New approach that Hashicorp took is much simpler and one might wonder why it wasn’t done this way from the start. Check out this piece by Kieran Lowe: https://kieranlowe.io/terraform-s3-backend-setup-skip-the-table

💕 Love is in the air, and the new Valentine's Day collection is in mkdev's store. Fans favorite illustration by mkdev is the best present for Saint Valentine's Day for your second half. And for yourself of course! And to be fair you don't even need a special date to get yourself a cool t-shirt. Treat yourself! 😻
Shop here: https://store.mkdev.me/#!/

How much fraud is there? As they say, “the number may surprise you”. Dive deeper into the world of preventing fraud in episode 55 of DevOps Accents with Katarina Pranjić from LexisNexis Risk Solutions: https://mkdev.me/posts/preventing-digital-fraud-with-katarina-pranji-from-lexisnexis-risk-solutions-55

What changes happened to the fraud landscape recently? More on that in episode 55 of DevOps Accents with Katarina Pranjić from LexisNexis Risk Solutions: https://mkdev.me/posts/preventing-digital-fraud-with-katarina-pranji-from-lexisnexis-risk-solutions-55

Our guest for episode 55 of DevOps Accents was Katarina Pranjić from LexisNexis. Here's a part of our conversation about synthetic identities. Check out the full episode wherever you get your podcasts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K-rEf_fUZY

Explore the power of container security with Kirill Shirinkin as he guides you through enhancing your CI pipeline with Clair, a tool that identifies vulnerabilities in container images. Learn to automate security scans using Clair to safeguard your deployments: https://mkdev.me/posts/scan-container-images-with-clair-v4

What can we do better to better protect people from fraud? More details in our conversation with Katarina Pranjić from LexisNexis Risk Solutions: https://mkdev.me/posts/preventing-digital-fraud-with-katarina-pranji-from-lexisnexis-risk-solutions-55

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Apparently Google Cloud has a decent native tracing solution, integration of which this article by Punit Sethi explores: https://punits.dev/blog/building-observability-with-google-cloud-services/

How did AI affect fraud? There are many ways, some of which are predictable, and some a very new. Full discussion with Katarina Pranjić from LexisNexis Risk Solutions in episode 55 of DevOps Accents: https://mkdev.me/posts/preventing-digital-fraud-with-katarina-pranji-from-lexisnexis-risk-solutions-55

Horror story time! In a land not so far away from mkdev's headquarters in Munich one insurance company almost had to cancel their IT migration. Because their legacy system was so old, it couldn’t generate the test cases needed to validate their new setup, turning a critical IT migration into a nightmare. 👻

That’s when our Head of Data & AI, Paul Larsen, stepped in. 🧙‍♂️

With his leadership, we built an AI-driven automation solution that:
✔️ Transformed dense insurance documents into a reference pricing engine, automatically converting specs into Python code.
✔️ Extracted test cases using LLMs so nothing slipped through the cracks.
✔️ Built a “delta-explainer” that traced every discrepancy back to its source.

Weeks of manual work? Gone.
Instead, they had an automated, AI-powered process that worked in days saving time, improving accuracy, and future-proofing their operations.

Still dealing with nightmares of outdated IT slowing you down? Let’s fix that! Contact us at paul@mkdev.me for GenAI wizardry.

Is Kubernetes starting to feel less like a powerful tool and more like a complexity monster? 🤔 In the new episode of the DevOps Accents podcast we dove into a conversation with Gerrit Schumann from mogenius, and it sparked a lot of thoughts. We asked some tough questions:

❓ Has the cloud-native landscape become too intricate?
❓ Are we placing unrealistic expectations on developers to be Kubernetes experts?
❓ Is there a better way to manage this complexity and empower teams?

Short answer -- The need for simplification is real. We discussed the rise of self-service platforms and the importance of abstracting away unnecessary complexity.
It's clear that while Kubernetes is incredibly powerful, we need to find ways to make it more accessible and manageable. We need to focus on enabling developers to focus on what they do best: building great software. While many of you are experiencing Kubernetes fatigue, we also urge you to take a closer look at mogenius given they are about to release a V2 that will bring a powerful new Kubernetes Manager for development teams. More details are in the episode, you don't want to miss it!

https://mkdev.me/posts/kubernetes-has-gotten-too-complicated-with-gerrit-schumann-from-mogenius-56

Explore lightweight, secure alternatives to Docker for building container images on Kubernetes, as Kirill Shirinkin demonstrates in this article. Learn to build with Buildah, analyze with Dive, and manage registries like AWS ECR using Skopeo: https://mkdev.me/posts/buildah-dive-skopeo-3-container-tools-for-building-images-on-kubernetes-cluster-with-gitlab-ci

In the 63rd mkdev dispatch Leo draws your attention to the speed with which the artificial intelligence market is developing and the regulations that start to rise because of that. Check it out and subscribe for more: https://mkdev.me/posts/regulate-impossible-to-let-loose-63

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Seventh yearly report from Catchpoint on the state site reliability engineering: https://www.catchpoint.com/asset/2025-sre-report

There is a catch up game most companies play with their infrastructure automation. More on it in episode 56 of DevOps Accents with Gerrit Schumann from mogenius: https://mkdev.me/posts/kubernetes-has-gotten-too-complicated-with-gerrit-schumann-from-mogenius-56

Explore the intricate balance of tools and team dynamics in DevOps with insights from Gerrit Schumann in episode 56 of DevOps Accents. Join us for a practical discussion on how companies can streamline operations and empower developers to achieve more with less cognitive overload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sF5YK8VIzI

Unravel the true nature of Kubernetes with Kirill Shirinkin! Is it a complex tech network or the new standard for app runtimes? Discover how K3s powers CI/CD jobs efficiently: https://mkdev.me/posts/kubernetes-is-just-an-api-let-s-see-it-on-k3s-cluster-running-on-aws-spot-fleet

Gerrit Schumann from mogenius suggests investing in strong policies, documentation, and infrastructure automation to efficiently scale operations without constantly increasing team size and training burdens. More details in our conversation with him in episode 56 of DevOps Accents: https://mkdev.me/posts/kubernetes-has-gotten-too-complicated-with-gerrit-schumann-from-mogenius-56

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Railway.com got irritated with Google Cloud enough (“o despite multi-million dollar annual spend, we get about as much support from them as you would spending $100”) to build its own data center in just 9 months - the project that they detail in this blog post: https://blog.railway.com/p/data-center-build-part-one

Gerrit Schumann says companies want control and flexibility, but real-world needs make infrastructure complex. DevOps teams are stuck fixing issues instead of automating, though this should change. More about it in the full episode of DevOps Accents with him: https://mkdev.me/posts/kubernetes-has-gotten-too-complicated-with-gerrit-schumann-from-mogenius-56