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Feb 10, 2025 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Pay your taxes with Claude Code

Episode #47: How connecting Claude Code to Playwright MCP automated my tax return and revealed a bigger pattern

Feb 1 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Talk to your AI agent: the ultimate vibe coding

Episode #46: How voice-to-text unlocks a faster, smarter way to work with AI

Dec 15, 2025 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Claude Agent Skills: Teaching Your AI Agent to Wear Multiple Hats

Episode #45: How to teach Claude specialized capabilities without bloating your prompts

Nov 29, 2025 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Pinning GitHub Actions for Reproducibility and Security

Episode #44: Stop relying on mutable version tags. Lock your workflows to immutable commit SHAs for production-grade stability and security.

Nov 22, 2025 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Most Popular

Taskfile: a modern alternative to Makefile

Jul 15, 2023 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

A Thank You to my 1K Subscribers (And How Being Seen Changed Everything)

Jan 21, 2025 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

How to publish a post with the LinkedIn API

Oct 26, 2023 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Pay your taxes with Claude Code

Feb 1 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Recent posts

UV Package Manager: Better Python Dependency Management

Episode #43: Forget about Pipx, virtualenv, Poetry, pyenv (and many more) and embrace UV, the ultimate tool for your Python projects.

Feb 9, 2025 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

A Thank You to my 1K Subscribers (And How Being Seen Changed Everything)

Episode #42: On passing a thousand subscribers and how I "went viral" (at least for my standards).

Jan 21, 2025 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Powerful Load Balancing Strategies: Kubernetes Gateway API

Episode #41: From ClusterIP to Ingress and Gateway API. Discover the most common strategies to load balance services in Kubernetes.

Jan 8, 2025 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Steampipe: Query your cloud infrastructure with SQL for faster insights

Episode #40: SQL as a universal gateway to your cloud infrastructure and beyond.

Dec 14, 2024 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Powerful Command line tools for DevOps: Nushell and Jc

Episode #39: Revolutionize Your DevOps Toolkit with Nushell and Jc for Maximum Efficiency.

Nov 16, 2024 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

How to deploy Fleet and Elastic Agent on Elastic Cloud Kubernetes

Episode #38: Unlocking the Power of Integrations by Setting up Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes with Fleet and Elastic Agent

Sep 15, 2024 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Maximise Your Productivity: Harness Hot Reloading in Kubernetes

Episode #37: Accelerate Your Kubernetes Workflow with Hot Reloading. Master Fast Feedback Loops Using Tilt, K3d, and ttl.sh!

Aug 22, 2024 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Demystifying Log Collection in Cloud-Native Applications on Kubernetes

Episode #36: A DevOps Engineer’s Guide to Aggregating Distributed Logs with Kubernetes and Elastic tools.

Jul 24, 2024 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Kubernetes

Powerful Load Balancing Strategies: Kubernetes Gateway API

Episode #41: From ClusterIP to Ingress and Gateway API. Discover the most common strategies to load balance services in Kubernetes.

Jan 8, 2025 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

How to deploy Fleet and Elastic Agent on Elastic Cloud Kubernetes

Episode #38: Unlocking the Power of Integrations by Setting up Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes with Fleet and Elastic Agent

Sep 15, 2024 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Maximise Your Productivity: Harness Hot Reloading in Kubernetes

Episode #37: Accelerate Your Kubernetes Workflow with Hot Reloading. Master Fast Feedback Loops Using Tilt, K3d, and ttl.sh!

Aug 22, 2024 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Demystifying Log Collection in Cloud-Native Applications on Kubernetes

Episode #36: A DevOps Engineer’s Guide to Aggregating Distributed Logs with Kubernetes and Elastic tools.

Jul 24, 2024 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

From Zero to K8s Hero: 5 Must-Have Tools for Kubernetes

Episode #35: Stay ahead of the competition by mastering these 3 tools for beginners and these 2 for more advanced users.

Jul 13, 2024 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Dev environment with Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)

Ep #11: Discover the easiest way to setup a development environment for the Elasticsearch stack that can easily scale to a production cluster.

Nov 2, 2023 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Cloud Native Engineer

Cloud Native Engineer

Master cloud-native engineering with practical insights into Kubernetes, Python, DevOps, and system design. Real solutions from hands-on experience to elevate your technical skills.

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How to deploy Fleet and Elastic Agent on Elastic Cloud Kubernetes

Episode #38: Unlocking the Power of Integrations by Setting up Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes with Fleet and Elastic Agent

Sep 15, 2024 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Dev environment with Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)

Ep #11: Discover the easiest way to setup a development environment for the Elasticsearch stack that can easily scale to a production cluster.

Nov 2, 2023 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Reroute processor for Elasticsearch

Ep #1: How to split container logs into multiple data streams

Jun 26, 2023 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

Elasticsearch: ‘ignore_malformed’, The Antidote for Mapping Exceptions

Ignore fields that are not compliant with index mappings and avoid dropping documents during ingestion with Elasticsearch.

Jun 17, 2023 • Giuseppe Santoro 🚢

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