23+ hour, 12+ min ago   (1684+ words) Search interest backs this up. “step function aws” pulls roughly 4,400 monthly US searches with low keyword competition, according to DataForSEO data pulled in August 2026, which tells you a lot of engineers are hitting this exact wall right now: they know…...

1+ day, 34+ min ago   (386+ words) This post covers the Terraform-specific details: the two-endpoint architecture, the provider flags that AWS requires but that Spinifex doesn't enforce, state management, and the workbooks in the Spinifex repository that cover common infrastructure patterns. Spinifex exposes two endpoints. The main…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1657+ words) Before you start, make sure your tooling is current. Express mode is a recent addition and older CLI or CDK versions won’t recognize the deployment-config flag. Express mode is available in all AWS commercial regions at no additional cost beyond…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (196+ words) As of early 2026, Proxmox reports more than 800,000 hosts running the platform worldwide, and major providers including OVHcloud and Hetzner run Proxmox in production at scale. The platform has grown steadily since 2023, driven by organisations looking to move off VMware following…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (777+ words) An AlreadyExists, AlreadyAssociated, or creation conflict often triggers the wrong response: delete something and run apply again. Do not do that. Terraform is not necessarily saying the infrastructure is wrong; it is saying it is trying to create something the…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (320+ words) If you've ever spent 3 hours debugging a missing 2-space indentation in a 1,000-line Kubernetes YAML file or copy-pasting the same service definition between docker-compose.yml, Helm templates, and Terraform HCL — you're not alone. Today, I’m excited to share Infra Lang…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1232+ words) There's a moment every platform team hits: Argo CD is syncing beautifully, deployments are declarative, and yet moving a release from dev to staging to production still means a human editing a values file and hoping. The deployment problem is…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (252+ words) The data lakehouse has become the default architecture for analytics on AWS in 2026. It combines the best of both worlds: the low-cost, schema-flexible storage of a data lake (S3) with the performance, ACID transactions, and governance of a data warehouse — without…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (739+ words) Argo CD said the deploy was "Healthy" — it just meant the manifests applied, not that checkout stopped returning 500s. We pushed a checkout service change, CI passed, Argo CD synced clean, dashboard all green. Ninety seconds later, our alerting channel lit…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (792+ words) After posting some content on social media platforms about pyATS, I received some questions from different sources: "Should I learn pyATS or Ansible first?" For me, it's the wrong question you are asking, not because it is dumb; it's actually…...