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Strimzi: Deploy Kafka in easy mode

Kafka is great for high throughput messaging, but, if you read about it online, it’s a pain to set up and manage. Critical Manufacturing MES uses Kafka, so eventually I ended up installing a couple of clusters.

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August 5th 2026

I'm having a nice time with herdr but this feature set seems really interesting

Orca — The most powerful Agent Development Environment (ADE)

July 29th 2026

Easier to use worktrees are great for parallel agent sessions, gonna try this out

treehouse

June 21st 2026

All of Rui's articles are great, but this one's a banger!

Running microVMs in Proxmox VE, The Easy Way