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Avi Zurel

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Avi Zurel's engineering essays about infrastructure, DevOps, cloud platforms, software architecture, leadership, and AI-assisted development.

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  • Good Architecture Often Loses to Friction. #SoftwareArchitecture #DevOps #Engineering

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    Oct 1, 2026

  • What Is the Point of Open Source and Open Knowledge These Days? #OpenSource #Knowledge #Essays

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    Mar 9, 2026

  • Using Obsidian Templater to Record 1 on 1 meetings #Productivity #SoftwareDevelopment #DevOps

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    Mar 9, 2026

  • Open Source #OpenSource #DevOps #Cloud

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    Mar 8, 2026

  • Constraints Over Flexibility: Eight Years of Infrastructure Generation #DevOps #Cloud #SoftwareEngineering

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    Feb 27, 2026

  • When PRDs Accidentally Invent Architecture #SoftwareEngineering #Architecture #ProductManagement

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    Feb 26, 2026

  • Installing a Specific Version of Node in a Nix Flake #Nix #DevOps #Software

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    Mar 22, 2023

  • Managing Github With Terraform and Saml Without Github Enterprise #DevOps #Cloud #Automation

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    May 17, 2022

  • Make Integration Testing Fun Again #DevOps #SoftwareEngineering #Testing

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    May 13, 2022

  • The Hippo Paas #DevOps #Cloud #SoftwareArchitecture

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    Feb 24, 2022

  • Onboarding New Engineers My Recipe #Engineering #DevOps #Leadership

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    Jul 22, 2020

  • Analyzing Your Aws Api Calls for Fun and Profit (And Security) #CloudComputing #DevOps #Security

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    Mar 27, 2020

  • Our flexible cluster solution - How we run micro-services efficiently #DevOps #Cloud #Microservices

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    Mar 24, 2020

  • 1:1 Question: What Is Your Stress Level since we last met? #Leadership #Management #Workplace

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    Sep 12, 2019

  • On Culture #Culture #Leadership #Essays

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    Jan 28, 2019

  • Using Bots to Solve Developer Drudgery #DevOps #Automation #SoftwareEngineering

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    Jan 18, 2019

  • Breaking the Terraform Monolith - Silos of Infrastructure #DevOps #Cloud #SoftwareArchitecture

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    Jan 15, 2019

  • Updating Files With the Githup Api - Python #Python #DevOps #API

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    Dec 13, 2018

  • Bike Commuting in the Bay Area and beyond - Tips/Tricks and More #Cycling #Commuting #BayArea

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    Nov 13, 2018

  • Installing Python 3.7 on OSX #Python #DevOps #SoftwareDevelopment

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    Oct 17, 2018

  • Generating CI Configurations at Scale #DevOps #Cloud #SoftwareEngineering

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    Aug 22, 2018

  • Insert a Line for Every File in a Directory #DevOps #Scripting #Automation

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    Aug 15, 2018

  • About #Tech #Software #Engineering

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    Aug 14, 2018