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Description: Personal notes on systems engineering and IT: guides, deep dives, dissections, and sometimes reflections.
Author: Kirill Solovei
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## Open-source projects

- [Project: bumpflow](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/project-bumpflow/)

## Articles

- [AWS Lambda MicroVMs](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/aws-lambda-microvms/)
- [Zero to llama.cpp: Run Local LLMs on Windows with AMD GPUs](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/llama-cpp-on-amd-windows/)
- [What's inside the pkpass file?](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/whats-inside-the-pkpass-file/)
- ["I think I suck at my job"](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/i-think-i-suck-at-my-job/)
- [Migrating from ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway: A Practical Kubernetes Guide](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/ingress-nginx-to-envoy-gateway/)
- [2025 in review](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/2025-in-review/)
- [Advent of Sysadmin 2025](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/advent-of-sysadmin-2025/)
- [Secure Your Wi-Fi Privacy: Randomize MAC Address with Bash](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/securing-wifi-with-random-mac/)
- [Centralized EKS monitoring across multiple AWS accounts](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/centralized-cross-account-eks-monitoring/)
- [ARG:2025](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/arg2025/)
- [Solving EKS Cluster Games](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/eks-cluster-games/)
- [Kubernetes to RDS: secure connections via IAM roles without passwords](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/kubernetes-to-rds-without-passwords/)
- [EKS Auto Mode custom NodeClasses and NodePools](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/eks-custom-nodeclasses-and-nodepools/)
- [Solving The Big IAM Challenge](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/the-big-iam-challenge/)
- [CI/CD guide: store Playwright test results in AWS S3](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/playwright-test-report-in-s3/)
- [Installing Python dependencies in AWS Lambda: easy pip guide](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/lambda-pip-modules/)
- [Bash functions](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/bash-functions/)
- [Everything* as code](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/almost-everything-as-code/)
- [A Beginner's Guide to AWS S3 Block Public Access](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/s3-block-public-access/)
- [Deploying React application with AWS Amplify](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/deploying-react-app-with-aws-amplify/)
- [Hidden files in an S3 bucket](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/hidden-files-in-s3-bucket/)
- [How to minimize docker image size: 4 key approaches](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/minimizing-containerized-applications/)
- [Solving Sad Servers scenarios: part 2](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/sad-servers-pt-2/)
- [First year overview](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/first-year-overview/)
- [Solving Sad Servers scenarios: part 1](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/sad-servers-pt-1/)
- [AWS open-sourced Secrets Manager Agent: what does that mean?](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/aws-sma-opensource/)
- [Checking IAM policy length using Terraform](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/checking-iam-policy-length-using-terraform/)
- [Story time: how I locked myself out of root account and how I fixed it](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/locking-myself-off-root-access/)
- [Signing your git commits with GPG key](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/signing-your-git-commits-with-gpg-key/)
- [Linux battery management](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/linux-battery-management/)
- [CKA or not CKA: my thoughts about certification and stuff](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/cka-or-not-cka/)
- [Git hooks: a painless way to use them](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/git-hooks/)
- [Server's first aid kit: a quick way to determine if your server is alive and well](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/servers-first-aid-kit/)
- [Bash aliases and why I love them](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/bash-aliases/)
- [Landing and blog: how-to and why at all](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/landing-and-blog/)
- [Automatic git commit](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/automatic-git-commit/)
- [Using AWS Parameter Store instead of Gitlab CICD Variables](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/cicd-variables-from-aws/)
- [Ready player one](https://notes.hatedabamboo.me/hello-world/)