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# VillaBytes

## Articles (page 1)

Showing 16 of 16 published articles. This is the last page.

- 2026-05-05 - [You deployed an food delivery bot. Someone is using it to write their Python code.](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/you-deployed-an-food-delivery-bot-someone-is-using-it-to-wri) - McDonald's chatbot wrote Python code. Alcampo's bot is one question away from explaining recursion. And your internal AI assistant is probably doing something it was never supposed to do right now. In
- 2026-04-28 - [One Proxy. Many Clusters. No routing headaches!](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/one-proxy-many-clusters-no-routing-headaches) - Let services/apps live where they make sense. Let teams own their clusters. Let the gateway handle all of them. That's the promise of multi-cluster networking. And for most teams, it's also where thin
- 2026-03-31 - [KubeCon Amsterdam 2026: A Week of Community, Migration Stories, and Getting $h\*t Done](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/kubecon-amsterdam-2026-a-week-of-community-migration-stories) - What happens when 700 t-shirts disappear in hours, your voice slowly gives out, and you end up walking what feels like a hall of fame of cloud native legends? KubeCon Amsterdam, that's what. Day 0: Ar
- 2026-03-13 - [Securing Oracle Integration Cloud APIs with Traefik on OKE](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/securing-oracle-integration-cloud-apis-with-traefik-on-oke) - Introduction Organizations using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) often need to expose their integrations to external consumers while maintaining robust security. In this post, we'll explore how to depl
- 2026-02-17 - [Configuring Claim-Based Multi-Layer Routing with Traefik and Entra ID](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/configuring-claim-based-multi-layer-routing-with-traefik-and) - Routing often needs to be more than just simple path matching. You might need to route a specific user to a particular version of a service, or perform identity-based canary releases. This post covers
- 2026-02-12 - [Oracle AI World Tour 2026 - My notes and takeaways!](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/oracle-ai-world-tour-2026-my-notes-and-takeaways) - I had the cool experience of attending the Oracle AI World Tour along with Marta Tolosa. Thanks a lot for the hosting! The event brought together Oracle's top leadership, industry partners, and custom
- 2026-02-07 - [Traces tell you a story](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/traces-tell-you-a-story) - Your OpenTelemetry traces tell you a story ! Traces are like a book, with spans as chapters, each telling part of your request’s story 👇. Our customers and prospects use it to unify and automate tele
- 2026-02-07 - [Let services take a breathe!](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/let-services-take-a-breathe) - Let services take a breathe, developers focus in business logic and API gateway do the heavy lifting... This is the phrase I repeat most often to prospects. Why overload APIs? Offload to the gateway. 
- 2026-02-03 - [How I Migrated My Father-in-Law's Website with Astro + Traefik + Oracle: €0 Hosting in 15 Minutes](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/how-i-migrated-my-father-in-law-s-website-with-astro-traefik) - The Problem with "Easy" Website Builders For years, my father-in-law's architecture firm TENUR Arquitectura ran its website on a popular drag-and-drop platform. Nice templates, SSL included. Set-it-an
- 2026-01-29 - [Turning 40 today. Crazy how time flies.](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/turning-40-today-crazy-how-time-flies) - When I was 12 years old (1998), my English wasn't very good, so my parents sent me to Kingsley Pines Camp in the US with local kids to improve my English. It was my first time on a plane and my first 
- 2026-01-27 - [Your Mock Requests Didn’t Break Production. Your Real Users’ Requests Did. Mirror Those into Non-Prod Environments.](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/your-mock-requests-didn-t-break-production-your-real-users-r) - LIVE VIDEO DEMO - https://youtu.be/p8MHs0tlv5o?si=LivJoUf9RPbxibSg When running APIs in production, one of the biggest challenges developers face is the gap between tests and real-world usage. No matt
- 2026-01-24 - [How I built my blog/newsletter for €18/Year](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/how-i-built-my-blog-newsletter-for-18-year) - It took longer to write this post than to deploy the full Ghost platform for https://carlosvillanua.com. VillaBytes is now live! This is my spot to share thoughts on Kubernetes, cloud-native stuff, Io
- 2026-01-21 - [Full deployment of Traefik Hub on Akamai - Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/full-deployment-of-traefik-hub-on-akamai-linode-kubernetes-e-2) - This project demonstrates the integration of Traefik Hub with API Management on Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE), providing a complete solution for modern cloud-native API lifecycle management. O
- 2026-01-21 - [Full deployment of Traefik Hub on Akamai - Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/full-deployment-of-traefik-hub-on-akamai-linode-kubernetes-e) - This project demonstrates the integration of Traefik Hub with API Management on Akamai Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE), providing a complete solution for modern cloud-native API lifecycle management. O
- 2026-01-21 - [Talos Kubernetes on Proxmox with Traefik](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/talos-kubernetes-on-proxmox-with-traefik-2) - Why This Matters Running Kubernetes at home has traditionally meant dealing with the overhead of full Linux distributions, manual cluster setup, and the complexity of production-grade networking. This
- 2026-01-21 - [Talos Kubernetes on Proxmox with Traefik](https://usecommune.com/n/villabytes/a/talos-kubernetes-on-proxmox-with-traefik) - Why This Matters Running Kubernetes at home has traditionally meant dealing with the overhead of full Linux distributions, manual cluster setup, and the complexity of production-grade networking. This
