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Unleash Your AI Agent: Automate Time Tracking With LangGraph and Meta Llama 3

A Deep Dive into Building and Optimizing AI Tools for Everyday Tasks

12 min readMay 3, 2024

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How To Create an Event Driven Architecture (EDA) in Python

Build scalable and flexible systems using Python

24 min readMay 21, 2023

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Python Persistence Perfected

Optimizing data storage with the repository and unit of work patterns

13 min readApr 10, 2023

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The Secret to Selling Your Software Architecture

5 Strategies for convincing stakeholders and gaining approval

7 min readMar 6, 2023

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Developers on Autopilot: How AI Assistants Are Transforming Software Development

Are AI Tools Helping or Hurting Developers’ Core Skills?

8 min readMay 8, 2024

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How To Conquer the 2024 Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) Exam

Strategies From My Personal Journey

9 min readApr 15, 2024

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Mastering Kubernetes Audit Logs

Ensuring Security and Compliance Through Detailed Insights

7 min readApr 13, 2024

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Securing Kubernetes With OPA Gatekeeper

Ensuring Compliance and Security Across Your Kubernetes Cluster with the Open Policy Agent Gatekeeper

9 min readFeb 29, 2024

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Mastering Kubernetes Security — My Journey With Admission Controllers

From Novice to CKS Ready

7 min readFeb 25, 2024

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Mastering Kubernetes With Kubectl

Understanding kubeconfig authentication

8 min readFeb 13, 2024

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Patrick Kalkman

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IT Architect, Developer & Writer passionate about open-source, AI, and agile. Driven by lifelong learning and knowledge sharing.

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