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Gemini 4 Argon in Practice: API Changes, Costs and Ten Long-Horizon Workflows
Workstation engineering guide: 1M unified window, long decode, thinking levels, Argon + Flash orchestration, cost model, safety, and ten worked workf…
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Big Prometheus at Scale: Pros, Cons, and a MoSCoW Map of Observability Tools
Workstation rewrite of the Big Prometheus problem space: Thanos, Cortex/Mimir, VictoriaMetrics, M3/Chronosphere — plus MoSCoW across OTEL, Grafana, S…
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WSL Vault Technical Deep Dive: Zero-Trust Secrets, Dual Control, MFA & Multi-Region HA
Technical deep dive: envelope hierarchy, dual-control workflows, MFA, leases, active/active multi-region HA, feature tours, and presentation chapters
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Workstation AI Shop on Ring Promoter: Orbit, Version-Verified Health and the Path from INT to PROD
Technical guide: shop Helm/CI mapping, Orbit semantics, version-verified health for the AI agent, secrets per ring, promote API, and a production che…
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Ring Promoter vs Argo CD, Kargo, Spinnaker and CI: Release Workflow Design and Architecture Decision Records
Technical deep dive: full feature matrix, head-to-heads, three release workflow designs, failure modes prevented, and worked ADRs with a decision che…
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GitLab Runners on Kubernetes: hyperscale cost optimisation with the Kubernetes executor
Operator vs Helm, Kubernetes executor values, concurrency, DinD, autoscaling levers, observability and a FinOps checklist
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How We Protected the Payments Secure FinTech App with WSLProxy Edge, an Open-Source API Gateway
The engineering write-up: threat model, the api_gw pipeline, every setting we used, the CORS incident we fixed in three minutes, and a checklist for…
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