Yearly Archives: 2025

AI: Introduction to Ollama for local LLM launch

31 May 2025
 

 I would really like to play with some LLMs locally, because it will allow to better understand the nuances of their work. It’s like getting acquainted with AWS without having dealt with at least VirtualBox before – working with the AWS Console or AWS API will not give an understanding of what is happening under… Read More »

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AI: What is the MCP?

21 May 2025
 

 Everyone around us is talking about MCPs all the time, and it’s time to understand the topic. So, today we will deal with the basic concepts – “what it is in general”, then we will write our own “micro-MCP server”, and in the next post – something more real, about working with VictoriaLogs. LLM Limitations… Read More »

Python: introduction to the Celery, and its monitoring configurations

20 May 2025
 

 To put it very simply, Celery is something we can use to perform tasks outside of our main service. For example, there is a Backend API that has some kind of endpoint to which mobile devices send information that the user has created a new whatever in the application. The task of the Backend is… Read More »

Kubernetes: find a directory with a mounted volume in a Pod on its host

18 May 2025
 

 We have an AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service with the VictoriaMetrics stack deployed (see VictoriaMetrics: deploying a Kubernetes monitoring stack). I need to migrate the data from the old VMSingle Pod to the new one on the new cluster, and to do this, I need to find VMSingle’s data on an EC2. Note: regarding the migration… Read More »

Nexus: Configuring Docker proxy repository, and ContainerD in Kubernetes

17 May 2025
 

 I wrote about launching Nexus in the Nexus: launch in Kubernetes, and PyPI caching repository configuration post, now I want to add Docker image caching to PyPI, especially since Docker Hub introduces new limits from April 1, 2025 – see Docker Hub usage and limits. We’ll do it as usual: first run manually locally on… Read More »

Nexus: launch in Kubernetes, and PyPI caching repository configuration

17 May 2025
 

 In Kubernetes, we run GitHub Runner for the build and deploy of our Backend API, see GitHub Actions: Running Actions Runner Controller in Kubernetes. But over time, we noticed that there was too much traffic on the NAT Gateway – see VictoriaLogs: a Grafana dashboard for AWS VPC Flow Logs – migrating from Grafana Loki.… Read More »

PostgreSQL: using EXPLAIN and setting up “auto_explain” in AWS RDS

12 February 2025
 

  I have already mentioned the EXPLAIN feature in the PostgreSQL: AWS RDS Performance and monitoring blog post, but this is such an interesting and useful thing that it’s worth talking about it separately. In addition, AWS RDS for PostgreSQL has the ability to enable Execution Plans logging with EXPLAIN, which is also useful for… Read More »