The Systems Notebook
BasantExploring platform engineering, DevOps, and cloud systems in an era of AI and automation.
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Hello S3 Files: S3 is Now a Real File System
For years, cloud architects have lived by a strict rule: S3 is for objects, EFS/FSx is for files.
If you wanted to treat an S3 bucket like a local folder on your EC2 instance, you had to jump through hoops. You either used s3fs (which wa...
The Intelligence Inflection Point: When Pipelines Become a Full-Time Job
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1. Introduction: When Pipelines Become a Full-Time Job
You open a pull request.
The build fails.
The error references line 742 in a YAML file.
You scan indentation.
You check anchors and conditionals.
You...
AI Isn't Replacing DevOps. It's Absorbing the Boring Parts.
DevOps was never about YAML.
It just wore YAML as a mask—Terraform manifests, CI pipelines, and sprawling shell scripts. Those were merely the visible artifacts, the paper trail of a much deeper struggle. The real work of DevOps has always...
Claude Code just got a FREE mode
You can now run Claude Code using open-source models on your own machine by pointing it to an Anthropic-compatible endpoint like Ollama. You keep the Claude Code CLI experience (repo awareness, diffs, agentic flow) while avoiding Anthropic...
Curious what others think about this - especially folks who’ve built or used internal DevOps / IaC / DevEx platforms.
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Most setups I’ve seen have a “template catalog” for teams to browse Terraform or Helm blueprints, and then a separate flow for deployment (often with policies, guardrails, approvals, etc.).
But the more I work with these, th...
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DevOps Engineer turned AI enthusiast. Exploring the fusion of automation, infrastructure, and intelligent systems. Writing on MLOps, agentic workflows, and practical DevOps strategies.
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