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Rapid UI Prototyping with Python Streamlit: Audio Transcription, End-to-End

Rapid UI Prototyping with Python Streamlit: Audio Transcription, End-to-End

Introduction Podcasts, video calls, and voice calls produces hours of speech every day. Turning that speech into text is now routine for meetings, customer-support calls, and more. A simple audio to text tool can help us capture conversations on meetings, phone or our smart watch - once recorded we can

Add Blazing Fast Search to Your Django Site with Algolia

Add Blazing Fast Search to Your Django Site with Algolia

Introduction Most web applications struggle with search functionality as they scale. Users expect instant, accurate results with typo tolerance and intelligent filtering capabilities that traditional database queries simply cannot deliver efficiently. Building these features from scratch requires significant development resources and ongoing infrastructure management. Even with proper indexing, SQL queries

How a Simple Open Source Tool Drastically Improved Our Time to Ship GitHub Actions

How a Simple Open Source Tool Drastically Improved Our Time to Ship GitHub Actions

Introduction Every DevOps team knows the frustration: you push a change to your GitHub Actions workflow, then wait several minutes for the pipeline to execute, fail, and force another round of commits. And then it goes on in a loop. At KubeNine, we encountered this same delay while iterating on

Simplifying AWS CloudTrail Log Analysis using NLP

Simplifying AWS CloudTrail Log Analysis using NLP

Introduction Cloud security auditing is critical but often tedious and time-consuming. AWS CloudTrail logs every API call and user activity, offering a detailed audit trail. But combing through these logs manually or writing complex CloudWatch Insights queries is a painful and error-prone task. We at KubeNine have built an AI-powered

Why We Chose Vaultwarden for Password Management — And Why It Might Work for You

Why We Chose Vaultwarden for Password Management — And Why It Might Work for You

Introduction When we started looking for password managers for our DevOps team, Bitwarden Cloud was a natural first stop. It’s trusted, secure, and user-friendly — but it came with limitations that didn’t sit well with our priorities as a self-hosting, cost-conscious DevOps consultancy. * We don’t do black boxes:

How This AWS Architecture Keeps Notifying You Until You Fix It - Repeated Alarm

How This AWS Architecture Keeps Notifying You Until You Fix It - Repeated Alarm

By default, Amazon CloudWatch Alarms send a notification only when the alarm changes state — for example, from OK to ALARM. If the alarm remains in the ALARM state, no additional messages are sent. This can be a problem in production environments or for support teams who rely on timely updates

Let Your Kubernetes Workloads Sleep: Using Snorlax to Cut Non-Prod Cluster Costs

Let Your Kubernetes Workloads Sleep: Using Snorlax to Cut Non-Prod Cluster Costs

Non-production workloads running on Kubernetes need not be up 24/7. In order to cut cost we can easily shut down a lot of them during non-work hours or on weekends. This small change can add to significant cost saving in large environments. Snorlax helps you do exactly that. By

Why HTTPS Matters and How to Enable It Using Certbot

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,

Wait4X: The Elegant Service Readiness Notifier for 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

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

6 Things You’re Probably Doing Wrong in Prometheus Monitoring

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

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,

Test your LLM applications right!

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

Using port-forward too often? KubeVPN Can help!

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

Supercharging AI IDEs with Model Context Protocol (MCP)

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

VPC in AWS and GCP

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