Every time I start installing Arch Linux, it’s like a new journey: it seems like nothing much has changed over the years, but every time something new happens. I’ve written about this a lot, and it’s time to write about it again because I bought a new laptop. At first, I was too lazy to… Read More »
We have VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaLogs running on an AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster. We do major upgrades to EKS by creating a new cluster, and therefore we have to transfer monitoring data from the old VMSingle instance to the new one. For VictoriaMetrics, there is the vmctl tool which can migrate data through the APIs… Read More »
Terraform has two ways to bring existing resources under Terraform management – using the Terraform CLI and the terraform import command, or using the import resource. Why might we need to import resources? if we already have a manually configured (the “clickops”) service that we want to bring under Terraform management (for example, the common… Read More »
We have an automation for AWS IAM that creates EKS Access Entries to give AWS IAM Users access to an EKS cluster. I don’t remember if I wrote it myself or if some LLM generated it (although judging by the code, I did 🙂 ), but later I discovered an unpleasant feature of how this… Read More »
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 »
In the previous article, we figured out what an MCP is in general, and created a basic MCP server that was connected to Windsurf – see AI: What is the MCP? Now, let’s try to create something more useful, for example, an MCP server that will connect to VictoriaLogs and receive some data. In fact,… Read More »
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 »
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 »
The last time I’ve used decorators in Python about 10 years ago, in Python 2, and I want to refresh my memory a bit, because now I’ve started using them quite actively, so want to see how it works under the hood, and what it is in general. The post turned out a bit… weird?… Read More »
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 »