Archive - The DankTec Newsletter

🚀 Weekly Tech Recap: Chip Happens (May 12–18, 2025)

Here's something different, a new GenAI service from AWS. And move over RegularSQL, NoSQL & CurrentSQL, there's a NewSQL in town.

May 20 •

🚀 Weekly Tech Recap: Cache Me If You Can (May 5-11, 2025)

Caching made even harder. Reddis goes back to Open Source & AI is already reprogramming humans!

May 12 •

🚀 Weekly Tech Recap: Boring Edition (April 28–May 4, 2025)

The week that wasn't... Join us for some machine sycophancy, DNSSEC hell & another Python package manager, yay.

May 3 •

April 2025

🚀 Weekly Tech Recap: Bro Edition (April 21–27, 2025)

Yo fam, here’s your no-BS rundown of what’s poppin’ in tech this week. Let’s get it.

Apr 27 •

Never Assume Anything — Always STS:AssumeRole Everything!

In this article I’m going to show you how to implement a secure cloud authentication framework using modern best-practices and tools in the AWS…

Apr 7 •

Hacked Australian Super Funds appear to be Oracle Cloud customers.

An industry-spanning coordinated cyber attack resulting in theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars was launched today. We suspect many of the funds…

Apr 4 •

February 2024

How to Choose Technology

In a complex, fast-paced landscape with constantly shifting goalposts and endless choice it can be tricky to decide on tech and even tricker to be…

Feb 3, 2024 •

January 2024

K3s on DigitalOcean, fully automated

In this tutorial we utilize Terraform & Ansible to deploy a K3s cluster on cheap DO Droplets.

Jan 16, 2024 •

December 2023

Logs are boring… and expensive

There is a solution! And it’s not a commercial product!

Dec 19, 2023 •

The Rise of The Free SSL Certificate

In this article I delve into how the SSL Certificate landscape has changed, and the trade-off between free+automated and expensive+manual.

Dec 1, 2023 •

November 2023

The Dead Dream of Cloud Portability

Why can't we just switch clouds vendors?

Nov 24, 2023 •

The History of Infra-As-Code

Let's take a look at the history behind some of these frameworks to guess at what the future will look like.

Nov 22, 2023 •

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