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Welcome to the Digitalis Blog — a curated space for professionals seeking detailed perspectives on the technologies shaping tomorrow’s digital infrastructure. Our content delves into advanced topics such as cloud-native architectures, AI and machine learning deployment, DevOps methodologies, data engineering, and scalable software solutions.

Why and How I Use Distributed Inference to Run a Large Language Model (LLM)

Why and How I Use Distributed Inference to Run a Large Language Model (LLM)

As large language models (LLMs) become more powerful and complex, efficiently running them for real-world applications is increasingly challenging.

Kubernetes: downscale your costs

Kubernetes: downscale your costs

The Hidden Costs of Kubernetes – and How to Control Them

How to run Kubernetes on premises for beginners

How to run Kubernetes on premises for beginners

It is easier than you thought

Future-Proof Your Cloud: Considering European Options Beyond the Hyperscalers

Future-Proof Your Cloud: Considering European Options Beyond the Hyperscalers

Make Europe Great Again

The importance of synchronised time in a distributed Cassandra cluster.

The importance of synchronised time in a distributed Cassandra cluster.

On a daily basis most of us don’t notice a phenomenon called “time drift”.

What are Tombstones in Cassandra and Why Are There Too Many?

What are Tombstones in Cassandra and Why Are There Too Many?

I have been asked about tombstones in cassandra, often from users who suddenly are experiencing a slow cluster, some nasty timeouts, a…

Collecting metrics, traces and logs

Collecting metrics, traces and logs

Simplicity is better

The risks of AI to your data

The risks of AI to your data

Is your company at risk?

Why and how we collect logs

Why and how we collect logs

Crash dump collected

Scaling New Heights: Modernising Your Application with Kubernetes

Scaling New Heights: Modernising Your Application with Kubernetes

One step at a time

How to mount a Google bucket to a Kubernetes pod

How to mount a Google bucket to a Kubernetes pod

And save a few dollars

Back to foundations: SSH

Back to foundations: SSH

Tips and tricks

Kafka Poison Message Antidote

Kafka Poison Message Antidote

Data validation and comprehensive error handling is one of those important tasks in building a Kafka application that I see skipped far too…

Tricks of the trade: working with environments

Tricks of the trade: working with environments

Switching between workloads and environments safely

How to add CORS to S3 with CloudFront

How to add CORS to S3 with CloudFront

DNS Resolution in an Hub-And-Spoke network setup using Private Hosted Zones in AWS

DNS Resolution in an Hub-And-Spoke network setup using Private Hosted Zones in AWS

Apache Airflow Branching (and gotcha!)

Apache Airflow Branching (and gotcha!)

Apache Airflow is a powerful, open-source tool that allows you to define workflows for data engineering and even general workflow…

Running containers without load balancers

Running containers without load balancers

ECS and Cloudflare

Azure : AWS Single-Account Access from manual to automated using 3 easy steps.

Azure : AWS Single-Account Access from manual to automated using 3 easy steps.

Custom Virtual Machine images for Azure and AWS

Custom Virtual Machine images for Azure and AWS

Managing your Bitbucket CI/CD repos using Terraform

Managing your Bitbucket CI/CD repos using Terraform

As a DevOps engineer we all understand the pain of managing source code and repositories. Now add to that scale and complexity of CI/CD and…

Hung Kafka Transactions

Hung Kafka Transactions

In a previous post (Read/Process/Write with Kafka Transactions) I talked about how transactions work within Kafka.

Kubernetes: look mum, no Load Balancer

Kubernetes: look mum, no Load Balancer

Running Kubernetes without an Ingress

Terraform: keeping your code dry

Terraform: keeping your code dry

Managing multiple environments

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