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OpenTelemetry in Practice: Distributed Tracing Across Message Queues

Distributed tracing works brilliantly until your request hits a message queue and the trace context vanishes. Here's how to maintain end to end visibility across SQS, RabbitMQ, and other async boundaries.

1 Mar 2026 18 min read

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Building an AI Inference Platform on Your Own Hardware with Terraform

Cloud AI APIs are convenient but the costs add up fast and your data leaves your network. Here's how to build a GPU-accelerated inference platform on Proxmox with Terraform, Packer, and Ansible.

22 Feb 2026 21 min read

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Infrastructure as Code in 2026: The State of Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, and CDK

The IaC landscape has fractured. IBM bought HashiCorp, OpenTofu is gaining serious traction, CDKTF got deprecated, and Pulumi just dropped an AI agent. Which tool should you be using?

15 Feb 2026 15 min read

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About Lloyd

Lead Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 8+ years building secure, cost-effective AWS infrastructure. From Terraform modules to CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes at scale, I help organisations ship faster without compromising on security.

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Cloud & DevOps Engineering Insights

OpenTelemetry in Practice: Distributed Tracing Across Message Queues

Building an AI Inference Platform on Your Own Hardware with Terraform

Infrastructure as Code in 2026: The State of Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, and CDK

About Lloyd

Cloud & DevOps
Engineering Insights