Cloud architecture / DevOps / FinOps / AI
Hi, I'm Máté
Experienced DevOps engineer and cloud architect with a background in software development, finance and service management. Writing on infrastructure, automation, AI, people, or whatever grinds my gears.
Latest writing
RSS- Excel Will Outlive Us All There’s a kind of person who pops up in every AI discussion thread: while someone is running the numbers on how many jobs are going to evaporate in the next five years, these fo... Read article →
- Make ZSH Great Again Tired of not being able to use vim to edit shell commands? Read article →
- ChatGPT, Please Stop the Mental Illness There is a very specific kind of suffering that only appears when you ask ChatGPT to write something simple and it responds like it was raised in a bunker by LinkedIn influencer... Read article →
- UX Extravaganza - Electricity Meter Reading The dreaded email arrived: it’s time for the annual electricity meter reading. I immediately noticed it wasn’t from the usual company this time, but it didn’t look like phishing... Read article →
- Junior vs. Senior Skillsets: The Case for Hiring Juniors, Even in a Bad Market A recent conversation with a colleague sparked an interesting thought about how we evaluate developers at different stages of their careers. It went something like this: Read article →
- Grok 4: I Wanted to Believe With legions of impatient X users standing guard, the release of xAI’s Grok 4 has finally happened. But man, the amount of shills enthusiastic, real life users reposting the sam... Read article →
- Unlocking Ubuntu LUKS2 encryption automatically at boot Tired of asking for a KVM every time you need to reboot your server to unlock your LUKS2 encryption? Read article →
- Install an OS without KVM I wanted to install RHEL on a Hetzner bare metal server, but there was a large demand for KVMs and I didn’t want to wait. I’ve found a tutorial on how to install Proxmox from th... Read article →
- Install RSAT via Powershell Note to self – I needed to install RSAT on a build agent, so using the “optional features” GUI was not possible. Read article →
- Azure DevOps - build pipeline billing extravaganza Azure DevOps has a nice little feature called Azure Pipelines. It’s a great CI/CD tool, especially if you’re already using Azure DevOps for your source control and work item tra... Read article →
- Global and persistent query filters for Entity Framework Core Occasionally, you may want to apply a filter to all queries for an entity type. For example, you may want to ensure that some records are not returned in any query, such as when... Read article →
- Let's Encrypt Certbot manual mode with Azure Key Vault Most of the time, I use Certbot to generate and renew my Let’s Encrypt certificates in an automatic way, i.e. through Github Actions or something. However, every now and then I ... Read article →
- Persist a list of integers with Entity Framework Core I had to persist a list (or array) of integers in a database table using Entity Framework Core. I was surprised to find that EF Core does not support this out of the box. I foun... Read article →