Articles
34 articles
Articles and tutorials for engineers building and running production systems.
Article·David Flanagan·7 min read
Lazyjournal: A Log Viewer for Cloud Native Environments
Centralized log access for developers and system administrators
Article·David Flanagan·4 min read
Kyverno ValidatingPolicy with CEL: Working Examples (2026)
Migrating from ClusterPolicy with side-by-side examples
Tutorial·David Flanagan·7 min read
Deploy to Cloudflare from GitLab CI with Dagger (Tutorial)
Containerized builds, automatic previews, and zero-config deployments
Article·David Flanagan·8 min read
Federated GraphQL for Microservice Architecture
Seamless Data Access Across Service Boundaries Without Compromise
Article·David Flanagan·6 min read
The Rawkode Academy Architecture
Over-Engineering for Fun & Profit
Article·Stefan Ruzitschka·3 min read
Zed: Show & Tell
A modern code editor, written in Rust
Guide·Russell Waite·3 min read
How to ask for help
Learn to ask questions that people want to answer
Tutorial·David Flanagan·7 min read
QuestDB on Kubernetes
I was first introduced to QuestDB by my former colleague, David Simmons, who now runs their Developer...
Tutorial·David Flanagan·3 min read
Packet Metadata for SaltStack
In my last article, we spun up some bare metal compute on Packet with Pulumi and installed SaltStack....
Tutorial·David Flanagan·5 min read
SaltStack on Packet with Pulumi
WIP: You probably don't want to read this yet 😂 I joined Packet on July 27th (4 days ago, at the tim...
Tutorial·David Flanagan·7 min read
Automate Google Calendar Invitations with Slack and Pipedream
When I was working at InfluxData, I put together a programme that aimed to solve a common business ch...
Tutorial·David Flanagan·9 min read
Contributing to nixpkgs
I've been using NixOS, on and off, for around 2 years now.