Tools

Why HTTPS Matters and How to Enable It Using Certbot

Introduction Securing your website is no longer optional, it’s a fundamental requirement. If your site is still operating over HTTP, it’s time to make the switch to HTTPS. This not only ensures data transmitted between your users and server is encrypted and secure, but also strengthens user trust,

Cloud

Stop Overpaying for AWS CloudWatch: Metric Optimization Tips

Introduction AWS Cloudwatch is the default monitoring service on AWS. When you’re using AWS, Cloudwatch is part of the package - you’ll automatically get default metrics when you asked for them or not. Things are good as long as you’re using these default metrics, but when you

DevOps

Wait4X: The Elegant Service Readiness Notifier for DevOps

Introduction In modern container-based architectures, one challenge is ensuring that services are ready before their dependencies attempt to use them. Wait4X is a handy CLI tool which solves this problem with a simple notification system. What Makes Wait4X Special? Unlike complex monitoring tools, Wait4X does one thing extremely well -

Building Autonomous AI Teams with CAMEL-AI

Introduction AI has transformed from a buzzword into an essential toolkit. AI capabilities continue to expand at a mind-boggling pace. While AI Agents are great, do you know what's even better? AI Workforces. What if you could simply create multiple agents with different roles and responsibilities? These agents

DevOps

6 Things You’re Probably Doing Wrong in Prometheus Monitoring

Prometheus is an incredibly powerful tool for monitoring your systems. Its flexible data model and expressive query language, PromQL, make it one of the most popular choices in the observability world. But — that flexibility comes at a cost. When you're just starting out with Prometheus, it's

Python

Python’s Biggest Bottleneck Just Got Optional: Meet the GIL-Free Era!

Are you experiencing performance bottlenecks in your Python applications? Have you wondered why your multi-threaded Python code doesn't fully utilize all CPU cores? The answer lies in Python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). For years, this mechanism has been a significant limitation for CPU-bound tasks in Python,

Cloud

How to Use ECS Exec to Access Fargate Containers with Terraform

Introduction Is it even possible to exec into a running container in ECS? It definitely is - but it’s not straightforward to setup. ECS Exec lets you connect to your containers on demand using the AWS CLI, giving you a way to inspect, debug, and fix issues inside your

LLM

Test your LLM applications right!

What’s the biggest challenge when building applications, whether they’re web-based, native, LLM-powered, or anything else? Testing! Every time you make a change, you need to ensure the application still functions smoothly and that your new features haven’t broken any part of the flow. To simplify this, we

Kubernetes

Using port-forward too often? KubeVPN Can help!

Introduction If you’ve worked with building or deploying anything on Kubernetes then you must have had the need to connect to a service running on a remote kubernetes cluster from your local system. This is often needed for debugging and testing. kubectl port-forward is the standard method used to

Cloud

Automating Cloudflare DNS Management with Terraform

Why use terraform for managing DNS records? If you're responsible for managing DNS records on Cloudflare across multiple domains, you know how repetetive it can be to keep updating DNS records all the time. You log into the Cloudflare dashboard, go to the DNS settings, and manually change

Tools

Supercharging AI IDEs with Model Context Protocol (MCP)

The past few months have been crazy. We see new AI innovations coming in every day. The amount of transformation is going to change the way we are used to doing things for the better. At KubeNine, we have been constantly adapting to the change - trying to keep up

Cloud

Why Google CloudRun is not an alternative for Amazon ECS!

Introduction ECS is a popular container orchestration service provided by AWS. You can run any application on ECS as long as you can containerise it. HTTP based applications or applications that consume messages from a queue - any use case - it just works, with no drama. When evaluating a

VPC in AWS and GCP: How are they fundamentally different?

Introduction Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) both offer VPCs, but they handle network scope, connectivity, and scaling in different ways. It’s important to know these differences when you’re building apps on these platforms. You might have heard often - “I know AWS - I

Cloud

Build a Simple S3 Storage Browser in React

It’s almost impossible to build a meaningful web application without object storage these days. Often in our apps we require access to files on s3 bucket. Working with AWS S3 often requires building interfaces to provide secure and accessible ways for interacting with stored files. However, creating such interfaces

Python

How We Leveraged Pydantic and Llama index for Data Extraction from unstructured files

Introduction Extracting information from PDF files is a common use case. Often we want to extract structured data from PDF files such as resumes, invoices, or reports. Extracting relevant information while maintaining a consistent structure is crucial for automation and further analysis. By leveraging LLMs and Pydantic, developers can transform

Python

Django Lifecycle Hooks: A better alternative to signals

As developers, we often encounter scenarios where certain actions need to be performed whenever something happens to our models. Whether it’s adding new data, updating existing records, or deleting something from the database. For years, Django signals have been the go-to solution for handling these kinds of requirements. They’

Cloud

All you need to know about Cloudflare tunnel

Introduction Imagine this: You're working on a cool new website or app on your computer, and you can’t wait to show it to a client or get some feedback from a team member. But here's the catch—you don’t want the hassle of setting

Tools

QB9: Your global bookmark on the internet

Ever been stuck searching for the right document or webpage, wasting time and energy clicking through tabs and folders? Picture this: you’re checking into a hotel, and the receptionist asks for your ID. It’s stored in your Google Drive, but after a frustrating few minutes of digging through

All you need to know about the Bottlerocket Operating System

Introduction Bottlerocket OS has been promoted by AWS for a while now. In fact it is the recommended default OS for EKS worker nodes. They also use the same OS for ECS as well. Although by design bottlerocket seems extremely promising but we are yet to see any official benchmark

Reduce Cost and Improve Security with Amazon VPC Endpoints

What If I Told You That You Could Reduce Your AWS Costs by Up to 90%? No, you’re not wrong—that’s entirely possible. For example, when working with S3 buckets, you can cut costs by as much as 90%. So, you might be wondering: what’s the secret

How to run Streamlit reliably in production using supervisor!

Streamlit is widely used by Python developers for rapid prototyping as well as running real production applications. Have you ever faced a situation where your Streamlit application suddenly stops working? Whether due to crashes or server issues. Most developers run streamlit using tmux or nohup - which work - but

Kubernetes

Adding Authentication to Any App in Minutes using OAuth2 Proxy!

Introduction Imagine this—you've built an amazing application, but there's one problem: it doesn’t support authentication out of the box. Now you need to secure it without rewriting code or building a custom auth system. That’s where OAuth2-Proxy can help. It’s a straightforward

DevOps

Jenkins or GitHub Actions? Deciding the Right CI/CD Tool for Your Workflow

Introduction Continuous Integration and Delivery is a key part of any software application. Be it a mobile app, a backend app or a website - everything requires CI/CD to make things easier for everyone. From testing and building code to deploying it across environments, CI/CD tools help simplify

Tools

Breaking free from Servers: Serverless RDBMS without the headaches

Introduction Sometimes, you might set up an RDS instance that gets queried only a few times a day. For example, QA instances used by testing teams during office hours often stay idle for the rest of the day, yet you still have to pay for the entire instance. This can

Cloud

EKS Auto Mode launched recently - is it worth the hype?

Introduction Running Kubernetes in production can be hard. Even with the managed options Kubernetes isn’t a bed of roses. AWS recently launched EKS Auto Mode which aims to offload some pain. While the features offered by the auto mode can be useful, almost all of them were already used