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Agentic AI Infrastructure with a Human in the Loop
draft2727 words · 14 min readSurvey of agent orchestration frameworks and HITL layers, with a practical breakdown of self-hosting and Slack/email/Linear/GitHub/GitLab/Terraform/Ansible integration.
Indoor mapping technologies and approaches
draft2903 words · 15 min readA technical survey of sensing technologies and SLAM algorithms used to build floor plans and 3D models of building interiors. Covers ultrasound, time-of-flight, LiDAR, vision, radar, and inertial methods, with build recommendations for tiny indoor mapping devices.
Validating an external IBM MQ TLS integration from a GCP Cloud Run Job
2362 words · 12 min readEnd-to-end procedure for proving network reachability, TLS handshake, channel authentication, and queue authorization against a remote IBM MQ qmgr from a Cloud Run Job using pymqi and a CMS keystore.
Replacing an L7 header-routing nginx proxy with a GCP Application Load Balancer
2321 words · 12 min readMigrating a Kubernetes-deployed nginx proxy that dispatches HTTPS traffic by header value to a GCP global external Application Load Balancer using Internet NEGs and URL-map header matches.
AI Compute Hardware: Data-center GPUs, Client NPUs, and Edge AI
draft4247 words · 22 min readRoles of GPU, CPU, DPU; CUDA programming model; NVIDIA / AMD Instinct / Intel Gaudi data-center accelerators; AMD Ryzen AI, Intel Core Ultra, Apple Neural Engine, Qualcomm Hexagon client NPUs; Jetson Orin, Coral, Rockchip edge silicon; NVLink generations.
Importing a GCP Cloud Run service into Terraform state
draft721 words · 4 min readProcedure for importing a manually deployed Cloud Run service into Terraform state. Covers the IAM binding when the runtime service account differs from the Terraform actor, lifecycle ignore_changes for CI-managed image and env vars, and the multi-container template behavior of gcloud run services update.
Fortigate NGFW VM From Azure Marketplace
draft2353 words · 12 min readAWS RDS database access via AWS SSM
draft341 words · 2 min readSafest way to access an RDS PostgreSQL instance via AWS SSM.
Azure Flexible Servers For PostgreSQL Downscaling
1042 words · 6 min readCloud specialist's continious activity.
Splitting a shared Terraform state into per-environment backends
1458 words · 8 min readMigrating a shared dev/prod Terraform state into separate Azure backends without recreating resources. Covers terraform state mv between local files and remote backends, the handling of data blocks, outputs, and random_* resources, plus rollback via reverse state mv and switching the storage account or container for an existing environment.
Raspberry Pi
2217 words · 12 min readCost‑effective, high‑performance computing for businesses and the home.
Proxmox: VLAN bridges and Huawei Dorado FC storage
1366 words · 7 min readProxmox node configuration covering VLAN-aware bridge networking and VM IP assignment, plus FC SAN integration with a Huawei Dorado array. Includes orphaned LVM volume cleanup, ALUA multipath with the Huawei trailing-space vendor identifier, shared LVM across cluster nodes, and foreign volume group import via vgimportclone.