devops DevOps in 2025: The Pauperization Machine (Now With More AI and Less Brain Cells!) In 2021, concerns were about Kubernetes and sysadmin basics. By 2025, DevOps is characterized by AI over-reliance and waning technical depth. Kalvad prioritizes foundational knowledge over button-pushing and AI-generated solutions, critiquing current trends humorously.
alpine Live Free or RAM Hard: Declarative Linux Style Tired of bricking Linux servers? Try Alpine Linux: a lightweight, secure NixOS alternative. Explore diskless and data modes for better security and efficiency. Run Docker on 352MB RAM with our QEMU guide. Ideal for efficiency.
dns DNS Load Balancing: The Illusion of Simplicity Explore when to use DNS load balancing and the key conditions for its effectiveness in managing network traffic.
devops The DevOps is dead, long live the DevOps! DevOps has been diluted by marketing and misused job titles. Here is what the term actually meant, why it matters, and how to tell real ops work from YAML cosplay.
ansible It is Infrastructure as Code, not Infrastructure as YAML! YAML with templating is not Infrastructure as Code. A look at why sysadmins deserve real programming languages, and what tools like PyInfra offer over Ansible and Helm.
sqlite Uptime Kuma, SQLite and Litestream! How can you deploy a SQLite application on almost any cloud provider in a secure and reliable way!
archlinux Archlinux in Production? Is archlinux viable in production? Why you should use it too? Is that better than Ubuntu? (YES!!!)
selfhosting To Cloud or not to Cloud Why we moved part of our infrastructure off public cloud and into our own office: data residency in Dubai, rising Scaleway prices, and why we picked XCP-NG over KVM, bhyve, and Kubernetes.
sysadmin Dhakira, the cloud-native Web Server or Why Hosting some static assets is still so complicated? Why hosting Angular, Hugo, and Zola sites on Kubernetes is still painful, and what a cloud-native web server built for static assets should actually do.
airflow Apache Airflow on Clever Cloud A walkthrough of deploying Apache Airflow on Clever Cloud with PostgreSQL, Redis, and Celery, written for engineers who want to understand their stack instead of copy-pasting it.
sysadmin Sysadmin/DevOps/SRE people, we are on the way to a massive pauperization of our jobs! Why sysadmin, DevOps, and SRE roles are being devalued, how Kalvad still hires and trains real infrastructure engineers, and what we look for in interviews.
sysadmin How to handle a massive infrastructure problem A field-tested 5-step plan for handling a major infrastructure incident: business impact, technical status, inventory, monitoring, and solution.
automation N8N on Clever Cloud A practical walkthrough for deploying n8n on Clever Cloud with PostgreSQL, basic auth, and a Git-based workflow, so you can self-host your automation instead of renting it.
