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DueWeekly Tech: 07-04-2025 to 20-04-2025

Apr 20, 2025, 12 min read

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Hey everyone,

Itโ€™s great to connect with you all again after a week! As usual, the Dueweekly Report is out. This time, I came across some really interesting articles and blogs. They introduce some cool new tools like CyclopsUI and Choreo.

If you have some free time, I highly recommend checking them out. I donโ€™t think youโ€™ll be disappointed! Grab your PC, laptop, or phone and dive in.

Hope you all have a fantastic time! ๐Ÿ™Œ

AIOps / MLOps / LLMOps

1. Medium - Ollama + MCP Servers from Scratch

  • A Walkthrough to build Ollama with MCP, which become popular conception among couple weeks passthrough
  • With each step declare, you can do same with author because he try to attach code and explain each implementation, thatโ€™s pretty easier for approaching

2. Youtube - Deepseek R1 671b on a $500 AI PC!

  • Great youtube video give us a landscape and vision when you want to bring global LLM model into your home, with tiny pc around 500 buck, you can get yourself one of LLM with billion token, what !!! thatโ€™s insane ๐Ÿฅถ
  • This video also provide the benchmark, comparison and PC spec for supplying more information, and with them, you gonna build PC for serving LLM model easier ever.

3. Blog - Moore Threads vร  MUSA SDK โ€“ Cuแป™c chฦกi lแป›n nhแบฑm thay thแบฟ CUDA

  • The big rival of NVIDIA CUDA appears in couple day ago, so with the challenge and fierce competition in GPU market that led a couple of countries find to different way to validate the technologies, and China is one who starting first with MUSA SDK
  • With the new driven in standard GPU SDK, this will shift and push the compete to next level and we are user and we will have solution to make decision with cheaper. So well let see on next articles, I will try to back into this topics to see what news

4. Medium - 30+ MCP Ideas with Complete Source Code

  • Really cool article to let you know more about what is MCP, bunch of components with this conceptual, what actually case you can do with MCP, and thatโ€™s easier to approach, you can find more keyword and information to explore with new techniques
  • If you wanna find the real opensource implemented with MCP, This blog cover a lots of this up to 30+ Ideas, this one is really madness and truly helpful for who want to learn about MCP and get ready for quickstart with MCP

Architecture

1. Medium - How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs

  • If you try to learn about eBPF and real use case with Netflix Architecture, double-check this blog to learn how to Netflix use eBPF to control flow logs with VPC

2. Blog - How does Netflix manage to show you a movie without interruptions?

  • Again we talk about the Netflix architecture, one of interesting things in the technology world
  • You can get the more keywords, patterns and path to help get closer and expand more ways to understand concept of Netflix, why their service hard to get down with huge traffic every second
  • In the end, we can get the keynote from author with top 10 things which can learn from Netflix Arch

3. Medium - AWS: Building a Secure Modern Web Application Architecture

  • The detail walkthrough is using for building modern web with high-end technologies of AWS, if you want to learn and retrieve the concept for completely build web with cloud, this blog should be spent for yโ€™all
  • External build web, you will learn about how to secure your application in each layer, such as JWT, WAF and more conceptual to absorb

4. DevOps.com - Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Reference Architectures

  • New concept and rapidly growth in nowaday, via this article, you will know about what is IDP and Why you should ready to intercept this driven in the feature
  • Introduce a couple of samples to help you follow the this one for both Cloud Native and On Prem with self-hosted tools.

5. Medium - 10 Must-Know Cloud Native Architecture Patterns

  • Top 10 cloud architecture pattern you should learn for set the idea and mindset when you kick off any project, that pretty good for learning purpose and interview because this article tries to summary it into easier version
  • You will familiar with couple of pattern, like sidecar, ambassador or bff (backend for frontend). To find more about cloud architecture pattern, you should read Microsoft - Cloud design patterns

6. DevOps.vn - Triแปƒn khai PostgreSQL high availability vแป›i Patroni trรชn Ubuntu (Cแปฑc kแปณ chi tiแบฟt)

  • One of blog write in Vietnamese, if you wanna find the solution for building HA Postgres Cluster, this one will be spent for yโ€™all
  • When I take a look this tutorial, this one is kinda impressive with step by step and super detail, trust me, it doesnโ€™t make you disappointed
  • A couple of tools, which you will learn like patroni, HAProxy, etcd, keepalived, โ€ฆ

Career / Story

1. Medium - 7 Hidden Frustrations Every DevOps Engineer Faces

  • This blog is truly massive in good ways, he try to specific what problems encountered by DevOps Engineer, the story related look very familiar with who already or preparing for joining this journey
  • He try to give you couple of advice and I think that pretty truth, so you need to faith and believe for what you do, reduce tech debt, guide everyone in project to skill self-fining problem and you will be okay.

Data Engineer

1. Blog - I spent 5 hours understanding how Uber built their ETL pipelines.

  • One upon again, vutrinh brings a really good article to let us know how uber build ETL for your service, one of complex and interesting in the top because uber process from millions to billions data, so why if you wanna to discover about tech in big tech, go for it
  • He try to relate into the importance of analysis and process data in Uber, itโ€™s backbone of their business. Next, Apache Hudi submit a what role in Uber ETL Pipelines, he try to explain in detailing way with illustrations, 100% for sure you can imagine what workflow emerge
  • Out of the box, he gives us the statistical about performance and cost savings to prove the efficiency of implementation. Externally, he relates about Data Consistency, Data Quality and Observability pipeline

2. Medium - How We Cut Our Data Pipeline Costs by 80% Using One Overlooked Feature

  • This article gives you some advice and remediate solutions for reducing the cost spent for Data Pipelines in AWS Environment
  • When you want to implement anything else, especially Data Pipeline with AWS, make sure you double-check factor, progress and involve much documentation to figure out how much you will cost for your service
  • 4 Take note when you start to build data pipeline, including Identify Your Processing Patterns, Implement Granular State Tracking, Modify Data Loading to Use State Information and Validate Incrementally Processed Results

Developer

1. Medium - API Gateway Pattern in Microservices โ€” A Complete Guide

  • API Gateway is one of popular pattern when you implement microservice, that will bring up for you multiple values and you can learn about this concept via this articles
  • He will try to walkthrough each side of API Gateway, such as Features, Pros/Cons, Example, โ€ฆ and that one will provide mindset and path to research, explore and implement the API Gateway for yourself
  • Some API Gateways candidates which you can find are Eureka, Kong, โ€ฆ

Kubernetes

1. Medium - Top 13 Kubernetes Alternatives for Containers

  • This article introduces you what alternative Kubernetes Solution for running Container Service, this will let you expand collections and find suitable solution for your usecase
  • Some solution is really popular for both enterprise, like openshift, nomad or opensource, like mesos, swarm, โ€ฆ

2. Medium - From Helm Chart to Developer UI in 5 Minutes

  • The brand new tool uses to manage and create new helm for Kubernetes Cluster, with UI and totally free. You can double-check that one via GitHub - Cyclops and Maintainer Linkedin
  • This platform will let developer to solve the pain when deploying and setup anything inside Kubernetes with not much Kubernetes knowledge, and I think this once can helpful in some situation without devops to manage your Kubernetes
  • Cyclops already support CLI for automation in your pipeline, and we can use cyclops as platform developer - the concept led popular in 2025
  • So if you wanna find more information and explore about CyclopsUI, give them one insight at CyclopsUI - Documentation and other blogs at CyclopsUI - Blog

3. Medium - Zero-Downtime Deployments with Kubernetes

  • The collection practicing covering some situations for helping imagine what should be configured to prevent zero downtime deployment with Kubernetes
  • This articles is very simple but detailing as well, I means each configuration will correspond example.
  • BTW, if you wanna find some tools to workaround with concept, you should involve flagger - wonderful tools to led you control deployment strategy

4. Medium - Platformless: How Choreo Built a Secure Kubernetes Platform with GitOps

  • This is massive article as well, shout out to Artem Lajko to write the coolest topics and articles
  • Alright, author introduces a new concept - platformless, it is same as Heroku, Developer pushes the code into git and anything will take care by this platform and we will not care about anything infra, ops, โ€ฆ (One of popular will led to top in 2025) and Author relates to Choreo - Next gen for platformless
  • Choreo is such wonderful tools with huge number integration tools, such as argocd, cilium, keda, โ€ฆ and this article try to help you understand this platform a lots with detailing explain, tooling or concept layer.
  • In the end, you can imagine what choreo work with hand-on example, it pretty easier for caching with good illustrations. If you are not enterprise user of Choreo, you can find to opensource version - OpenChoreo

5. Medium - Why Argo CD Wasnโ€™t Enough: Real GitOps Pain and the Tools That Fixed It

  • The first part in series building real GitOps Strategies of JosephCheng, he tries to solve problem managing much yaml file and it will increase a lot effort when change one of them (NOTE: In this situation, we can use helm template but if only Kubernetes Manifest for each deployment, that will cause pain for sure ๐Ÿ˜ƒ)
  • So he try to refer into kro - I donโ€™t know but previous kro is experiment of AWS Lab, so but now they become individual and continuous development with such great features
  • kro helps you to define complex multi-resource constructs as reusable components in your applications and systems. It does this by providing a Kubernetes-native, vendor agnostic way to define groupings of Kubernetes resources.
  • kro will become rival of Helm Template someday, it let Kubernetes environment and platform become more interesting but also increase complex when choose tools for starting ๐Ÿฅถ
  • You can continue to read another blog in series at Part2 and Part3

6. Medium - Kubernetes Without Docker Is the Future โ€” Are You Ready?

  • The blog covers about the drive CRI of Kubernetes in new workload strategies, used containerd and except docker
  • Introduce new tools, platform and concept for developer to follow, but itโ€™s not new and have bit noise when migrate but still okay. If you wanna find the more information containerd, crictl or kaniko, I think you already to get yourself ready for integrating.

7. Medium - HomeLab Kubernetes Platform with a single Terraform apply

  • Introduce you about concept to setup Homelab server with Kubernetes and Promox, that really cool stuff to learn to let you know what layer should be prepared
  • This article relate about run terraform for setup environment, including promox, talos, cni, csi and loadbalancer for Kubernetes Cluster

8. Medium - Why and Why Not of Enabling Swap in Kubernetes

  • One upon again, shout out to Hungwei Chiu with great articles and let you know more reason why and why not to use swap mem in Kubernetes Cluster
  • Memory is one of things hard to control in Kubernetes, if you give more time to understand about this component, It will help you reduce much headache for your Kubernetes Cluster. He tries to let us know about the what trade off and what efficiency when not use or use swap in Kubernetes Cluster for real scenarios
  • Anything should be put in scale and give the experiment, and let take the look on couple of next Kubernetes versions about what implementation and api support us for us managing memory in good behavior.

9. Medium - Why Your Kubernetes Setup Is One Config Away From Catastrophic Failure

  • The cool articles let you know about what impact of configuration behavior when our write to deploy or operate application inside Kubernetes, the author gives detail example and what things you should do to patch your mistake
  • This articles will take the walkthrough via some situations, such as resources reservation, Health Probe, PDB Configure, Deprecated Version, โ€ฆ

Technology

1. Medium - Highlights KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 ๐Ÿš€

  • The keynote of KubeCon in Europe 2025, If you donโ€™t stay there like me, this article cover a lots of information to following, and introduce a brand new tools, feature of exist product and moreover for discovering
  • You can watch the video series about this conference at Youtube - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 Europe

2. Aiven - 16 Ways Tiered Storage Makes Apache Kafkaยฎ Simpler, Better, and Cheaper

  • To easy approach this concept, you should have a bit knowledge about Tiered Storage - that one will significant to improve more reliable, reduce cost and bring more value for your Kafka Cluster
  • If you know about AutoMQ - Queue Platform that leverage S3 to building success with Kafka concept and now we got S3 with Kafka for tired storage to led new way to control your Kafka Log segment
  • When you read this article, you will figure the impact of tiered storage bring for Kafka Cluster to resolve the problem storage of Kafka, which big problem when we talk about Kafka and now we got solution

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