A personal newsletter from Sam documenting the author's learning process in DevOps. The excerpts provided are very short test-style issues, so the substance is hard to judge.
Website: https://samlord.me/
Practitioner-written DevOps and cloud articles that walk through real client engagements, such as refactoring Terraform repositories, renaming production AWS ECS services and debugging Kubernetes shutdown behavior. Readers get detailed, step-by-step accounts of the problems, trade-offs and fixes involved.
A developer blog covering hands-on DevOps topics such as GitHub Actions security, OIDC authentication with Azure, and debugging open source tooling. Readers get practical walkthroughs with concrete commands, background on supply chain attacks, and first-hand accounts of working with AI on complex bugs.
A cloud infrastructure engineer documents practical fixes for running LMCache tiered KV-cache storage with vLLM, covering a broken fs_native adapter, a missing capacity declaration, and Swift s3api addressing problems. Other posts reflect on honest, legible infrastructure design and describe deploying Element chat on the Genestack platform.
Deep-dive debugging write-ups on Nix, devenv, Postgres and Elixir, each tracing a real problem to its root cause. Readers get step-by-step investigation and the underlying mechanics, such as file descriptor limits, eval caching and query planning.
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