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Solving Real-Time Event Correlation in Distributed Systems (Thu, 27 Nov 2025)
Modern digital platforms operate as distributed ecosystems — microservices emitting events, APIs exchanging data, and asynchronous communication becoming the norm. In such environments, correlating events across multiple sources in real time becomes a critical requirement. Think of payments, orders, customer metadata, IoT sensors, logistics tracking — all flowing continuously.
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Run LLMs Locally Using Ollama (Thu, 27 Nov 2025)
Over the past few months, I’ve increasingly shifted my LLM experimentation from cloud APIs to running models directly on my laptop. The reason is simple: local inference has matured to the point where it’s fast, private, offline-friendly, and surprisingly easy to set up. Tools like Ollama have lowered the barrier dramatically. Instead of wrestling with GPU drivers, manually downloading weights, or wiring up custom runtimes, you get a single lightweight tool that can run models such as Llama 3.1, Mistral, Phi-3, DeepSeek R1, Gemma, and many others, all with minimal configuration.
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AWS Airflow vs Step Functions: The Data Engineering Orchestration Dilemma (Thu, 27 Nov 2025)
There's a moment in every data engineering project when you realize your growing collection of batch jobs, data transformations, and scheduled tasks needs proper orchestration. You've probably duct-taped together some Lambda functions with CloudWatch Events, maybe written a few shell scripts with cron jobs, and now you're looking at AWS, wondering: should I go with Managed Airflow (MWAA) or Step Functions? I've seen teams make both choices, and here's the truth: neither is universally "better." The right answer depends on what you're actually building, who's maintaining it, and how your data engineering team thinks about workflows.
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Automating FastAPI Deployments With a GitHub Actions Pipeline (Thu, 27 Nov 2025)
Deploying FastAPI apps manually gets old fast. You SSH into a server, pull the latest code, restart the service, and hope nothing breaks. Maybe you remember to run tests first. Maybe you don't. One forgotten environment variable or skipped test, and your API is down. Users get 500 errors. You're frantically SSHing back in to fix it.
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DevOps Cafe Podcast

DevOps Cafe Ep 79 - Guests: Joseph Jacks and Ben Kehoe (Mon, 13 Aug 2018)
Triggered by Google Next 2018, John and Damon chat with Joseph Jacks (stealth startup) and Ben Kehoe (iRobot) about their public disagreements — and agreements — about Kubernetes and Serverless. 
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DevOps Cafe Ep 78 - Guest: J. Paul Reed (Mon, 23 Jul 2018)
John and Damon chat with J.Paul Reed (Release Engineering Approaches) about the field of Systems Safety and Human Factors that studies why accidents happen and how to minimize the occurrence and impact. Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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DevOps Cafe Ep. 77 - Damon interviews John (Wed, 20 Jun 2018)
A new season of DevOps Cafe is here. The topic of this episode is "DevSecOps." Damon interviews John about what this term means, why it matters now, and the overall state of security.  Show notes at http://devopscafe.org
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