Nicolai
nklya.bsky.social
Nicolai
@nklya.bsky.social
Engineer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://nklya.medium.com
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Unmesh Joshi finds LLMs to be a useful tool, but explains why their help becomes illusory if they shortcut the essential learning loop of our professional practice.

martinfowler.com/articles/llm...
The Learning Loop and LLMs
How continuous learning shapes effective software development with LLMs
martinfowler.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I've shared an updated version of my Agentic AI and Security article on @martinfowler.com's website:
martinfowler.com/articles/age...

(This is based on all the great research being done by others especially @simonwillison.net - my aim is to provide an accessible overview for others)
October 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Terraform Weekly #244 - Terraform Pipeline Caching issues, Microsoft Graph, Bots Write Bad Terraform, IaC Reviews, Terraform without the state file bottleneck
www.weekly.tf/p/issue-244-...
Issue #244 - Terraform Pipeline Caching issues, Microsoft Graph, Bots Write Bad Terraform, IaC Reviews, Terraform without the state file bottleneck
www.weekly.tf
September 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Terraform Weekly #242 - Overmind, Advanced Terraform Patterns for Teams, Production-Grade Video Upload Platform on AWS, AWS ECS, GitHub Actions with Azure and OIDC
www.weekly.tf/p/issue-242-...
Issue #242 - Overmind, Advanced Terraform Patterns for Teams, Production-Grade Video Upload Platform on AWS, AWS ECS, GitHub Actions with Azure and OIDC
www.weekly.tf
September 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Terraform Weekly #241 - Terraform with GitLab, Secure CI/CD with Okta, Traces & Profiling, Throttling for AWS API Gateway and Lambda, Managing AWS Tags
www.weekly.tf/p/issue-241-...
Issue #241 - Terraform with GitLab, Secure CI/CD with Okta, Traces & Profiling, Throttling for AWS API Gateway and Lambda, Managing AWS Tags
www.weekly.tf
September 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Terraform Weekly #240 - Upgrade to AWS EKS v21, Karpenter in EKS, GitHub Actions Runner Controller, Serverless Image Resizer, Container Orchestrator
www.weekly.tf/p/issue-240-...
Issue #240 - Upgrade to AWS EKS v21, Karpenter in EKS, GitHub Actions Runner Controller, Serverless Image Resizer, Container Orchestrator
www.weekly.tf
September 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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The latest #Kubernetes release v1.34 AKA "Of Wind & Will," is here 🥳 with a staggering 58 enhancements!

We sat down with Release Lead Vyom Yadav (Software Engineer at Canonical) on the podcast to get some behind the scenes insights 📷

kubernetespodcast.com/episode/259-...
August 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Terraform Weekly #239 - IaCConf, S3 Tables using Glue Jobs, LocalStack and Outbox Pattern, Serverless Chat, Terraform Module Tests, tfclean, iam-convert
www.weekly.tf/p/issue-239-...
Issue #239 - IaCConf, S3 Tables using Glue Jobs, LocalStack and Outbox Pattern, Serverless Chat, Terraform Module Tests, tfclean, iam-convert
www.weekly.tf
August 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Terraform Weekly #231 - Multi-Region AWS RDS, Region Meta-Argument in AWS Provider v6, Terraform State in Memory, Production-Ready MySQL on GCP, Terraform vs Bicep
www.weekly.tf/p/issue-231-...
Issue #231 - Multi-Region AWS RDS, Region Meta-Argument in AWS Provider v6, Terraform State in Memory, Production-Ready MySQL on GCP, Terraform vs Bicep
www.weekly.tf
June 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Terraform Weekly #229 - Terraform State, Ephemeral Resources, Super Mario Game on AWS EKS, depends_on, Enterprise-Grade AWS CI/CD Pipeline
www.weekly.tf/p/issue-229-...
Issue #229 - Terraform State, Ephemeral Resources, Super Mario Game on AWS EKS, depends_on, Enterprise-Grade AWS CI/CD Pipeline
www.weekly.tf
June 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Terraform Weekly #226 (sponsored by @terrateam.io) - ECS for Minecraft Server, Lambda Functions in Rust, Serverless LocalStack, Azure Verified Modules, Azure Landing Zones, Terratags

Terrateam - Terraform CI/CD Without Limits ( github.com/terrateamio/... )

www.weekly.tf/p/issue-226-...
Issue #226 - ECS for Minecraft Server, Lambda Functions in Rust, Serverless LocalStack, Azure Verified Modules, Azure Landing Zones, Terratags
www.weekly.tf
May 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Terraform Weekly #225 - Using MCP with Terraform, AWS Transfer Family, Terraform Export from the Azure Portal, AKS Cluster in Production, Trivy, aztfexport
www.weekly.tf/p/issue-225-...
Issue #225 - Using MCP with Terraform, AWS Transfer Family, Terraform Export from the Azure Portal, AKS Cluster in Production, Trivy, aztfexport
www.weekly.tf
May 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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🇪🇪 9th May message from the border city of Narva facing 🇷🇺 side!
May 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Redis is open source again: antirez.com/news/151
May 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Redis 8 RC1 is out! New features include numerous performance improvements, more commands around hash field expiration, and a new data type written by @antirez.bsky.social—the OG himself—called vector sets.

Redis 8 RC 1: hub.docker.com/_/redis.
Vector sets: github.com/redis/redis/...

@redis.io
hub.docker.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Terraform Weekly #216 - Essential Tools for Terraform, Checks with terraform_data and Azure, Existing Helm Charts with Terraform, Serverless, Terraform Model Context Protocol, AWSCC
www.weekly.tf/p/issue-216-...
Issue #216 - Essential Tools for Terraform, Checks with terraform_data and Azure, Existing Helm Charts with Terraform, Serverless, Terraform Model Context Protocol, AWSCC
www.weekly.tf
March 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Terraform Weekly #215 (looking for sponsors) - AWSCC with Guard Hooks, Lambda Layers, Event-Driven Scheduler, #LocalStack with Serverless, #Terraform in Depth by Robert Hafner, InfraSpec, Func Provider
www.weekly.tf/p/issue-215-...
Issue #215 - AWSCC with Guard Hooks, Lambda Layers, Event-Driven Scheduler, LocalStack with Serverless, Terraform in Depth by Robert Hafner, InfraSpec, Func Provider
www.weekly.tf
March 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Talked with a Head of Eng at a startup who added a pretty clever “fingerprinting” to a takehome exercise to get proof if it was completed by copy+pasting it into an LLM.

100% of takehome submitted were done like this. He asked ppl submitting if they used any AI: 25% said yes
March 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Terraform Weekly #214 (looking for sponsors) - AWS Glue to Airflow, Terralith (again), Orchestrating AI, EKS Auto Mode, SSH with AWS Session Manager, Terraform Git Backend www.weekly.tf/p/issue-214-...
Issue #214 - AWS Glue to Airflow, Terralith (again), Orchestrating AI, EKS Auto Mode, SSH with AWS Session Manager, Terraform Git Backend
www.weekly.tf
February 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Terraform Weekly #213 (looking for sponsors) - Terraform Code for Scalability and Maintainability, S3 Tables, Terraform State in Azure, Can I Tf, Terraform Modules Releases For Monorepos, Terralith
www.weekly.tf/p/issue-213-...
Issue #213 - Terraform Code for Scalability and Maintainability, S3 Tables, Terraform State in Azure, Can I Tf, Terraform Modules Releases For Monorepos, Terralith
www.weekly.tf
February 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Terraform Weekly #211 - Docker Images in ECR, Upgrade to Serverless V2, OpenTofu Encrypted State with Git, From CloudFormation to Terraform, Circular Dependencies, TerraConstructs (CDKTF) www.weekly.tf/p/issue-211-...
Issue #211 - Docker Images in ECR, Upgrade to Serverless V2, OpenTofu Encrypted State with Git, From CloudFormation to Terraform, Circular Dependencies, TerraConstructs (CDKTF)
www.weekly.tf
February 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Terraform Weekly #208 - Resource Conflicts and Failures in #Azure, AWS #WAF with Reactive Infrastructure, GitHub Actions with Azure, Secure Grafana, terraform-validate-explorer
www.weekly.tf/p/issue-208-...
Issue #208 - Resource Conflicts and Failures in Azure, AWS WAF with Reactive Infrastructure, GitHub Actions with Azure, Secure Grafana, terraform-validate-explorer
www.weekly.tf
January 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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@kubernetespodcast.com just published our #Kubernetes 1.32 release episode featuring lead, @fsmunoz.bsky.social!
We discuss new feature highlights, deprecations and removals, and the release theme's multi-layered meaning. kubernetespodcast.com/episode/243-...
Kubernetes Podcast from Google: Episode 243 - Kubernetes v1.32 Penelope, with Frederico Muñoz
Release Lead Frederico Muñoz walks us through the 1.32 release: new feature highlights, deprecations and removals, and the release theme: Penelope.
kubernetespodcast.com
December 12, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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I really wish more people that come up with metrics for measuring team/developer productivity had a chance to work as an engineer in high performing teams.

1/3
December 12, 2024 at 3:09 PM