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Honest look at why Terraform is still my default in 2026, and why OpenTofu and Pulumi haven't earned a migration.","readingTime":11,"tags":["terraform","opentofu","pulumi","iac","devops","kubernetes","aws","cloud"],"title":"Terraform, OpenTofu and Pulumi: Why I Still Run Terraform in 2026","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/terraform-opentofu-pulumi-2026/"},{"date":"2026-05-21","description":"Lambda turned eleven in 2025, the cold-start narrative is mostly out of date, SnapStart and Graviton3 changed the price/perf math, and re:Invent 2025 quietly announced managed instances for steady-state traffic. Here's where Lambda earns its keep in real DevOps work, where it doesn't, and the comparison table I actually use when deciding.","readingTime":9,"tags":["aws","lambda","serverless","devops","cloud","infrastructure"],"title":"AWS Lambda Still Matters in 2026: Glue, Burst, and Honest Trade-offs","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/aws-lambda-still-matters/"},{"date":"2026-05-21","description":"The Kubernetes ingress map redrew itself in 2026. Community ingress-nginx is EOL, the Gateway API hit GA, Envoy Gateway is the CNCF reference, Cilium does L7 routing in eBPF with no sidecar, and RKE2 went Traefik by default. Here's the full landscape — old Ingress controllers, new Gateway API implementations, cloud-managed options — and what I'm actually deploying on new clusters.","readingTime":14,"tags":["kubernetes","ingress","gateway-api","envoy","cilium","istio","nginx","traefik","kong","ebpf","devops"],"title":"The Kubernetes Ingress Landscape in 2026: Nginx Isn't the Center Anymore","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/kubernetes-ingress-landscape-2026/"},{"date":"2026-05-21","description":"Notion and Obsidian represent opposite bets on where your notes should live — Notion's cloud convenience versus Obsidian's local-first ownership. A DevOps engineer's honest read on why the engineer who configures infrastructure for a living picked the one that doesn't need configuring.","readingTime":8,"tags":["notion","obsidian","note-taking","knowledge-management","linux","devops","productivity"],"title":"Notion vs Obsidian: Local-First Sounds Great Until You Have to Sync It","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/notion-vs-obsidian/"},{"date":"2026-05-20","description":"Kubernetes Secret objects are base64, not encryption. The interesting question is where the real secret material lives. AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, Google Secret Manager, and HashiCorp Vault — all four, fronted by External Secrets Operator, give you a single CRD-driven story that survives GitOps, multi-cloud, and on-prem. Here's the honest comparison.","readingTime":14,"tags":["kubernetes","secrets","external-secrets","vault","aws","azure","gcp","devops","rke2","gitops"],"title":"Where to Hide Kubernetes Secrets: AWS, Azure, GCP, and On-Prem Compared","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/kubernetes-secrets-aws-azure-gcp-onprem/"},{"date":"2026-05-20","description":"Half the US states now mandate age verification for adult content or social media. California pushed it down into the operating system. Brazil's ECA Digital just took effect in March. The enforcement model assumes a centralized vendor with remote control over the user experience. Linux breaks that assumption by design — and that, more than anything, is why the law cannot reach it without rewriting itself.","readingTime":12,"tags":["linux","regulation","privacy","policy","open-source","brazil","devops"],"title":"Age Verification Laws Are Coming for Your OS. Linux Doesn't Care.","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/age-verification-linux-immunity/"},{"date":"2026-05-20","description":"Rancher and Lens get compared constantly, and the comparison is misleading. Rancher is a full Kubernetes lifecycle platform — provisioning, multi-cluster management, RBAC, monitoring, CIS scans, app catalog, CD. Lens is a desktop IDE that talks to your kubeconfig. Both are good at what they do. Only one of them is what you reach for when you're running production.","readingTime":10,"tags":["rancher","lens","kubernetes","suse","mirantis","rke2","devops","containers"],"title":"Rancher vs Lens: A Platform and a Dashboard, Not the Same Thing","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/rancher-platform-vs-lens/"},{"date":"2026-05-20","description":"Kubernetes' iptables-based data path was an excellent 2015 decision and a bad 2026 one. eBPF and Cilium have spent the last few years quietly replacing it — service load balancing, network policy, observability, and runtime security all moving into the kernel. Here's what changed, the numbers that explain why, and how to migrate without breaking anything.","readingTime":8,"tags":["ebpf","cilium","kubernetes","networking","iptables","nftables","cni","devops","observability"],"title":"eBPF Is Eating Kubernetes' iptables Plumbing","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/ebpf-eating-kubernetes-iptables/"},{"date":"2026-05-20","description":"Three excellent reverse proxies, three very different shapes. Caddy 2.11, Nginx 1.31, and Traefik 3.7 each solve the same problem from opposite ends. Here's how the 2026 versions actually compare, what RKE2 going Traefik-by-default changed, and how to pick without regretting it six months later.","readingTime":5,"tags":["caddy","nginx","traefik","reverse-proxy","kubernetes","ingress","devops","rke2"],"title":"Caddy, Nginx, Traefik: Picking a Reverse Proxy in 2026","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/caddy-nginx-traefik-2026/"},{"date":"2026-05-20","description":"Hermes Agent and OpenClaw are the two serious open-source autonomous agents in 2026. They've made opposite architectural bets — agent-first versus gateway-first — and for infrastructure work, only one of those bets is correct. A DevOps engineer's honest read on why the learning loop matters more than the channel count.","readingTime":7,"tags":["ai","hermes-agent","openclaw","autonomous-agents","devops","linux","open-source"],"title":"Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw: Why I Run Hermes Every Day","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/hermes-agent-vs-openclaw/"},{"date":"2026-05-20","description":"On May 18, Linus Torvalds called the Linux kernel security list 'almost entirely unmanageable' because of duplicate AI-generated bug reports. curl killed its bug bounty in January for the same reason. The conversation has been about whose side to take. The conversation that matters is about what to actually do.","readingTime":9,"tags":["linux","kernel","open-source","ai","security","maintainers","devops"],"title":"AI Bug Reports Are Drowning Open Source — And the Fix Isn't 'Stop Using AI'","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/ai-bug-reports-open-source/"},{"date":"2026-05-20","description":"KDE Plasma 6.7 ships June 16, 2026, with the first beta out since May 14. 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Here's the honest architecture, the wiring, and the small details that make it work.","readingTime":8,"tags":["plex","sonarr","radarr","prowlarr","bazarr","synology","raspberry-pi","docker","homelab","selfhosting","linuxserver"],"title":"My Home Media Server: A Raspberry Pi 4 for Compute, a Synology NAS for Storage","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/media-server-pi4-synology/"},{"date":"2026-05-19","description":"NVIDIA + Wayland on Linux used to be a punchline. In 2026, on Fedora 44 with Plasma 6.6 and an RTX 5070, it's just my daily driver. Here's the honest field report — what changed, how I install it, what I check after install, and the one thing that still hurts.","readingTime":5,"tags":["nvidia","fedora","kde","plasma","wayland","rpmfusion","linux","desktop"],"title":"NVIDIA on Fedora KDE Wayland in 2026: Field Report from an RTX 5070","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/nvidia-fedora-kde-wayland/"},{"date":"2026-05-19","description":"GitOps isn't a religion. It's a reconciliation loop and a discipline about where state lives. Argo CD 3.4 GA'd in May 2026 with per-cluster reconciliation pause and progressive sync for ApplicationSets. Here's the stack I run on RKE2, how it compares to Flux and Rancher Fleet, and how it behaves when production breaks at three in the morning.","readingTime":6,"tags":["gitops","argocd","kubernetes","flux","fleet","rke2","devops","rancher"],"title":"GitOps with Argo CD: The Reconciliation Loop That Survives 3 a.m.","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/gitops-argocd/"},{"date":"2026-05-19","description":"Helm has been the punchline of Kubernetes packaging since about 2018. Helm 4 — released April 2026 after a six-year wait — fixed enough of the long-standing complaints (OCI-first distribution, kstatus-aware waits, native CRD lifecycle, WASM plugins) that I'm not shopping for a replacement anymore. 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Forced snaps, silent .deb-to-snap swaps, and Ubuntu Pro ads in my terminal walked me out of the desktop door. Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS is still a strong product — but on my own boxes I run Debian. Here's the honest accounting.","readingTime":9,"tags":["ubuntu","debian","canonical","snap","fedora","linux","desktop","server","devops"],"title":"Why I Left Ubuntu Desktop — and Picked Debian Over Ubuntu Server","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/leaving-ubuntu-desktop/"},{"date":"2026-05-19","description":"Tailscale is great. Headscale is fine. NetBird is the one I actually run — fully open source from the clients down to the control plane, BSD-3 licensed, WireGuard in kernel space, real zero-trust policies, and a self-hosting story that takes one script. Here's why I keep recommending it.","readingTime":8,"tags":["netbird","wireguard","vpn","self-hosting","tailscale","zero-trust","devops","linux"],"title":"NetBird: The Self-Hosted Mesh VPN I Wanted Tailscale to Be","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/netbird-mesh-vpn/"},{"date":"2026-05-19","description":"Three AI coding agents matter in 2026: Cursor (the IDE), Claude Code (the Anthropic CLI), and opencode (the open-source CLI). A DevOps engineer's honest read on what each actually does, why Claude Code is my daily driver, and why opencode is the Plan B I'm glad I have installed.","readingTime":8,"tags":["ai","claude-code","opencode","cursor","coding-agents","devops","linux"],"title":"Claude Code, opencode, Cursor: My Daily Driver and My Plan B","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/claude-code-opencode-cursor/"},{"date":"2026-05-19","description":"Distrobox vs Toolbx, Podman vs Docker as the engine underneath, and the trade-offs of letting a container be your workstation. A Senior DevOps engineer's opinions, with a Mase reference because the question is the same.","readingTime":7,"tags":["distrobox","toolbx","podman","docker","fedora","containers","linux"],"title":"Distrobox, Toolbx, and the 'What Would You Give and What Would You Keep' Question","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/distrobox-toolbx-podman-docker/"},{"date":"2026-05-19","description":"Valve's new Steam Machine is a 6-inch cube running SteamOS 3 on KDE Plasma, with a custom Zen 4 + RDNA 3 inside and the same Proton stack that made the Deck work. 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After two weeks of daily use I have actual opinions, including the ones VS Code defenders aren't going to like.","readingTime":7,"tags":["zed","editor","tools","rust","ai","linux"],"title":"Zed 1.0: When 'Fast Editor' Finally Stops Being a Marketing Line","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/zed-1-0/"},{"date":"2026-05-18","description":"On April 1, 2026, Hetzner raised prices 30–37% across cloud, dedicated, storage, and load balancers — its second major bump in 18 months. The honest reason is DRAM up 171% year-over-year on the back of AI memory demand. The harder question, six weeks in, is what your stack actually looks like after you do the math.","readingTime":7,"tags":["hetzner","cloud","infrastructure","devops","self-host","pricing"],"title":"Hetzner Isn't the Cheap Default Anymore — And the AI Boom Is Why","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/hetzner-not-cheap-anymore/"},{"date":"2026-05-18","description":"On May 18, 2026, a federal jury in Oakland took less than two hours to unanimously dismiss Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft. The ruling turned on a three-year statute of limitations — not on the underlying question of whether a nonprofit AI lab can legally morph into an $852B public benefit corporation. 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A look at where it is today — Modelfiles, an OpenAI-compatible localhost API, native vision, structured outputs, and Ollama Cloud with GPU-time billing and zero-retention hosting — and why that matters more than any single benchmark.","readingTime":7,"tags":["ollama","llm","ai","open-source","devops","self-host"],"title":"Ollama in 2026: The Boring Choice for Open-Source LLMs (And Why That's the Whole Point)","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/ollama-the-boring-standard/"},{"date":"2026-05-18","description":"Fedora Linux 44 shipped on April 28, 2026 after a two-week slip. Plasma 6.6 with Spectacle OCR and Wi-Fi QR scanning, DNF5 finally everywhere, NTSYNC for gaming, GCC 16.1, kernel 6.19, and the quieter changes — Plasma Login Manager, bootupd, image-mode plumbing — that matter to anyone running this on a workstation or a fleet.","readingTime":8,"tags":["fedora","linux","kde","plasma","devops","dnf"],"title":"Fedora 44: A KDE-Heavy, DevOps-Tinted First Look","url":"https://falcao.org/posts/fedora-44-first-look/"}]