What if I tell you that you could use SQL to query the status of your cloud infrastructure?
Today, I would like to introduce you to https://steampipe.io/ a tool I recently added to my arsenal of DevOps power tools.
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DuckDB introduces a local UI starting from version 1.2.1. The UI is a web page served by a HTTP server running on localhost.
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The DuckDB Local UI
DuckDB introduces a local UI starting from version 1.2.1. The UI is a web page served by a HTTP server running on localhost.
Read more: duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...
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Is DeepSeek-R1 a real competitor to ChatGPT?
So far I have only heard that “DeepSeek's approach is restricted to chains-of-thought that can be verified mechanistically, mainly useful for coding and mathematics”
What do you think?
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I have just published my latest article on Cloud Native Engineer.
Beware this is a non-technical one.
> A Thank You to my 1K Subscribers (And How Being Seen Changed Everything)
> Episode #42: On passing a thousand subscribers and how I "went viral" (at least for my standards).
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Just before the end of last year, the moment that I have been waiting for two years finally happened.
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What if I tell you that you could use SQL to query the status of your cloud infrastructure?
Today, I would like to introduce you to Steampipe, a tool I recently added to my arsenal of DevOps power tools.
Steampipe lets you query your cloud infrastructure and many other APIs (Twitter, GitHub, Kubernetes, to name a few) via a simple SQL interface.
This article has the following sections:
• What is Steampipe?
• SQL to query everything: OSQuery and Cloudquery
• How to query Hackernews via SQL
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