Aleksei Aleinikov - DEV Community

Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

Static RAG works — until your data gets outdated.

#python #rag #llm #machinelearning

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

Playwright scraping is easy. Running it reliably on a schedule is the real challenge.

#playwright #python #webscraping #devops

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

The bigger the agent gets, the worse a giant prompt performs.

#ai #automation #llm #googlecloud

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

Firewalls still matter. They’re just no longer the center of security.

#cybersecurity #security #cloud #firewall

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

AI code is not dangerous because it looks bad.

#ai #coding #programming #softwaredevelopment

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

Most teams don’t under-secure Vertex AI because they’re careless.

#gcp #google #googlecloud #gemini

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

Everyone says the new Gemini model is better. Almost no one proves it.

#ai #gcp #googlecloud #gemini

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

Not Every New Technology Makes Life Better in 2026

#techtalks #ai #productivity #llm

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

Static service account keys in CI/CD are not a convenience anymore. They are a liability.

#gcp #google #googlecloud #cybersecurity

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

Skills are useful. MCP is necessary.

#ai #llm #mcp #agents

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

Security Command Center is far more useful when you stop treating it like a findings inbox.

#gcp #google #googlecloud #cybersecurity

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

IAM Won’t Stop Data Exfiltration in GCP — This Will

#gcp #googlecloud #security #devops

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

GraphQL in Go looks simple at first: write a schema, run gqlgen, fill in the resolvers. But the real story starts later.

#go #graphql #backend

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

Why Traditional Cybersecurity Is Not Enough for AI in 2026

#ai #cybersecurity #security #softwaredevelopment

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

Your IAM Is Broken If One Identity Can Still Roam Your Entire GCP

#gcp #googlecloud #security #cloud

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

LLMs in 2026 Don’t Replace Thinking — They Imitate It

#ai #llm #programming #productivity

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

Vibe Coding in 2026: Fast Output, Slow Thinking

#ai #programming #softwaredevelopment #productivity

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

Workload Identity in GCP: Why Service Account Keys Should Be Gone by 2026

#gcp #googlecloud #google #security

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

AI Might Not Fix the Job Market in 2026 — It Might Break It

#techtalks #ai #economy

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

Modern Frontends in 2026: Your API Isn’t Done When It Returns JSON

#javascript #webdev #frontend #api

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

Virtual DOM in 2026: It’s Not About Speed — It’s About Control

#javascript #webdev #react #frontend

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 19

AI for Emotional Support in 2026: Where It Helps — and Where It Becomes Dangerous

#ai #psychology #llm

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 16

Static RAG Is Dead — Here’s How to Make It Real-Time

#rag #python #llm #machinelearning

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 16

Your Playwright Scraper Works Locally. So Why Does It Break in

#playwright #python #webscraping #devops

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Release Speed Means Very Little If Users Cannot Rely on the Product

#sre #devplusplus #devops #development

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Chaos Engineering Only Becomes Useful When Monitoring Can Explain the Failure

#sre #devops #monitoring #devplusplus

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Predictable Deploys Start When You Stop Trusting SSH Memory

#ansible #devops #automation #webdev

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Linux DNS Resolution Is Usually More Layered Than People Think

#devops #linux #dns #networking

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Telemetry Gets Useful When Logs, Traces, and Metrics Stop Living Separate Lives

#devops #devchallenge #devplusplus #monitoring

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

BDUI Feels Slow When You Wait for the Whole Screen Before Showing Meaning

#webdev #frontend #javascript #react

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Cookie Management Finally Got a Real API

#javascript #webdev #frontend #typescript

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Redirects Are a Security Boundary, Not Just a One-Liner

#javascript #webdev #web #frontend

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Why Human Dependency Risk Can Matter More Than CVEs

#security #development #devops #devplusplus

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

If Your Docker Release Process Depends on Memory, It Is Already Fragile

#docker #devops #devplusplus #cicd

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Your Ingress Controller Choice Is Really a Choice About Operational Pain

#devops #webdev #cloud #sre

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Backups Can Save Your Data. They Cannot Automatically Save Your Data Warehouse

#data #dataengineering #bigdata #devops

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

The Right RAG Architecture Depends on How Expensive a Wrong Answer Is

#ai #rag #llm #machinelearning

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Docker Hardening Starts by Taking Away What the Container Never Needed

#docker #kubernetes #devops #cloud

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Strong DevOps Starts When Developers Feel the Pain of Release

#devplusplus #devops #sre #webdev

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

You Don’t Always Need Redis to Speed Up Data Access

#devops #postgres #redis #backend

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

TLS Auto-Renewal Is Not the Same as TLS Safety

#devops #devplusplus #sre #automation

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

PodDisruptionBudget Is What Stops Routine Kubernetes Maintenance from Breaking Production

#cloud #kubernetes #devops #sre

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Small Web APIs That Quietly Fix Annoying UI Code

#frontend #javascript #html #webdev

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Observability in Microservices Starts Making Sense When Metrics, Traces, and Logs Work Together

#devops #sre #kubernetes #k8s

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

How to Clean AirPods Pro Safely Without Making Them Worse

#apple #ios #airpods #tech

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

VictoriaLogs on Kubernetes: A Logging Setup That Stays Practical

#k8s #kubernetes #devops #devplusplus

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

AI Is Powerful in 2026 — But That Still Isn’t AGI

#ai #llm #machinelearning

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Use Codex CLI with More Than One Model Provider via Bifrost

#ai #openai #devplusplus

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Industrial AI Does Not Fail Because the Model Is Weak

#ai #machinelearning #llm

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Data Poisoning Is the AI Risk Too Many Teams Still Underestimate

#ai #llm #security #datascience

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Google Cloud Armor Won’t Fix Your App — But It Can Stop a Lot at the Edge

#gcp #security #googlecloud #devops

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Bifrost MCP Code Mode Cut My Token Usage by 58%

#ai #llm #mcp #devplusplus

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Still using Editor, long-lived service account keys, or permanent admin access in GCP?

#gcp #security #devops #kubernetes

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Apr 3

Using Playwright + Bright Data Browser API in a Kubernetes Scraping Pipeline

#playwright #python #webscraping #kubernetes

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Mar 31

Your RAG Pipeline Might Be Missing the Most Important Thing: Fresh Context

#ai #llm #rag #machinelearning

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Sep 19 '25

🧪 Cypress in 2025

#webdev #testing #cypress #javascript

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Sep 19 '25

⚡Fast Sites in 2025 — No Framework Required

#javascript #webdev #programming #frontend

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Sep 19 '25

🔐 Strong types, stronger vibes.

#javascript #typescript #webdev #programming

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Sep 19 '25

🚀 Scaling Without Managed Services

#devplusplus #devops #kubernetes #programming

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Aleksei Aleinikov

Sep 19 '25

Ansible in 2025

#ansible #devops #automation #webdev

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