The Rawkode Academy Technology Matrix
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Introducing the Technology Matrix

A curated, interactive guide to the Cloud Native ecosystem

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David Flanagan
Dec 2, 2025
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Introducing cuenv: Type-Safe Environments and Parallel Tasks with CUE

Type-safe environments, secrets that never leak, and parallel tasks

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David Flanagan
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Building a Production-Ready CUE Library for Rust

FFI, memory safety, and production-grade architecture

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David Flanagan
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Wassette WebAssembly-based security for AI agent tooling
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Wassette: A New Era of Security for AI Agent Tooling

How Microsoft's new toolkit revolutionizes MCP server sandboxing

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David Flanagan
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News Digest for August 4th, 2025

A dispatch from the cloud-native world, where the height of innovation is apparently pointlessly reinventing YAML while shaking down the community for container images like a common street mugger

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David Flanagan
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FluxCD: Why the GitOps Pioneer Remains Its Future

Beyond initial convenience lies architectural truth.

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David Flanagan
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KEP-2831: Kubelet Tracing Finally Brings Node-Level Observability to Kubernetes

GA release brings node-level observability to Kubernetes

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David Flanagan
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Lazyjournal: A Log Viewer for Cloud Native Environments

Centralized log access for developers and system administrators

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David Flanagan
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Kyverno 1.14 ValidatingPolicy: CEL Changes Everything

Platform Engineering Policy-as-Code Revolution

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David Flanagan
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Production Deployments with Dagger and GitLab CI

Containerized builds, automatic previews, and zero-config deployments

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David Flanagan
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Federated GraphQL for Microservice Architecture

Seamless Data Access Across Service Boundaries Without Compromise

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David Flanagan
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The Rawkode Academy Architecture

Over-Engineering for Fun & Profit

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David Flanagan
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Zed: Show & Tell

A modern code editor, written in Rust

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How to ask for help

Learn to ask questions that people want to answer

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