Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.7.2, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # diego7marques ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://containscloud.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [5 tips to optimize logs and save costs on Datadog](https://containscloud.com/2025/08/08/5-tips-to-optimize-logs-and-save-costs-on-datadog/) - Datadog Logs are incredibly powerful. They give you visibility into everything that happens inside your infrastructure, applications, containers, and cloud services. But that same ease of integration comes with a risk: once agents start streaming logs automatically, it becomes very easy to lose control of what is being sent. Most teams end up ingesting far - [Scaling beyond the technical with KEDA and Datadog](https://containscloud.com/2024/11/04/scaling-beyond-the-technical-with-keda-and-datadog/) - When scaling applications, rely on technical metrics like CPU or memory is always the easy choice. While effective in some cases, these metrics often miss the bigger picture—failing to align scaling with actual business needs. For example, traffic spikes may not always correlate with key transactions or user actions. This is where scaling based on - [Should I use multi-org on Datadog?](https://containscloud.com/2025/01/26/should-i-use-multi-org-on-datadog/) - If you work in a large organization, you have a big decision before starting to adopt Datadog at scale: Should I use multi-org or not? The answer might be different for each company, but, taking the right one from the begging can save you a lot of work in the future. With that in mind, - [AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional: My exam experience](https://containscloud.com/2024/11/25/aws-certified-devops-engineer-professional-my-exam-experience/) - Hey, what's up? 👋🏻 After two heavy exams in terms of studying and effort applied to it, I decided to retake the DevOps Engineer Professional exam, as my old one had expired. Most of the topics covered in the exam is in my comfort zone, with resources that I've used a lot in the last - [October dump](https://containscloud.com/2024/10/31/october-dump/) - Hello folks, welcome back 👋🏻 I want to start this post saying this is not a technical post, so if you are here looking for one of the crazy labs we share around here, this post is not for you 😅 October was a very busy but special with so many activities, accomplishments and first - [AWS Certified Machine Learning Associate & Specialty: My exam experiences](https://containscloud.com/2024/11/11/aws-certified-machine-learning-associate-specialty-my-exam-experiences/) - Last week, I took both AWS Machine Learning certifications: the Machine Learning Engineer - Associate & Machine Learning – Specialty. I have to say, it was a long and exhausting journey, I can't remember the last time I had to study and learn so many new things in such a short period of time, but - [AWS Certified AI Practitioner: Minha experiência com a prova](https://containscloud.com/pt/2024/09/23/aws-certified-ai-practitioner-minha-experiencia-com-a-prova/) - Bem vindo de volta a nossa jornada 🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 Dessa vez, fiz o exame AWS Certified AI Practitioner. Decidi experimentar as duas novas certificações de IA enquanto ainda estão na versão beta, para sentir a diferença em relação à normal (e porque tem um emblema top de Early Adopter 😆). Foi um processo complicado porque ainda - [AWS Certified AI Practitioner: My exam experience](https://containscloud.com/2024/09/23/aws-certified-ai-practitioner-my-exam-experience/) - Welcome back to our journey 🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 This time, I took the AWS Certified AI Practitioner exam. I've decided to try both new AI certifications while it still in beta, to feel the difference from the regular one (and because it has a cool early adopter badge 😆). It was really challenging because there is still - [AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate: Minha experiência com a prova](https://containscloud.com/pt/2024/09/16/aws-certified-sysops-administrator-associate-minha-experiencia-com-a-prova/) - Olá 👋🏻 Há duas semanas, fiz o exame AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate. Eu nunca tinha prestado atenção nesse exame, pois meu foco estava mais voltado para Arquitetura e Desenvolvimento, mas finalmente decidi tentar e hoje vou compartilhar minha experiência. Sobre a prova AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Gostaria de começar dizendo que tive muita - [AWS Cost - Minha primeira integração para Home Assistant](https://containscloud.com/pt/2024/09/11/aws-cost-minha-primeira-integracao-para-home-assistant/) - Há alguns meses, embarquei na jornada de automatizar minha casa o máximo possível e, como todo mundo, cheguei a um grande dilema: Como posso gerenciar todos os meus dispositivos inteligentes de várias marcas em uma única interface? E foi assim que conheci o Home Assistant, um projeto open source que resolveu meu problema e muito - [AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate: My exam experience](https://containscloud.com/2024/09/16/aws-certified-sysops-administrator-associate-my-exam-experience/) - Hello 👋🏻 Two weeks ago I did the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate exam. I never really looked with attention to this exam before, as my focus were more on Architect and Development, but I finally decided to take a shot, so today I'll share my experience on it. The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - [AWS Certified Developer - Associate: My Exam Experience](https://containscloud.com/2024/08/20/aws-certified-developer-associate-my-exam-experience/) - Hey folks, what's up? Yesterday I did the AWS Certified Developer - Associate exam after my old one expired and with that, it's officially open my journey to get the AWS golden jacket. This was never a real goal, but as we've already come a third of the way, having acquired 4 of the 12 - [AWS Certified Developer – Associate: Minha experiência com a prova](https://containscloud.com/pt/2024/08/20/aws-certified-developer-associate-minha-experiencia-com-a-prova/) - E aí pessoal, tudo certo? Ontem eu fiz a prova AWS Certified Developer – Associate novamente, depois da minha antiga expirar, e com isso, está oficialmente aberta a jornada para conseguirmos a jaqueta dourada da AWS. Isto nunca foi um objetivo real, mas como já percorremos um terço do caminho, tendo adquirido 4 das 12 - [AWS Cost - My First Home Assistant Integration](https://containscloud.com/2024/09/11/aws-cost-my-first-home-assistant-integration/) - A few months ago I embarked on the journey of automation my house as much as possible, and as everyone else, I faced the main challenge of it: How can I manage all my smart devices from many brands in a single interface? And that's how I met Home Assistant, an open-source project that solved - [Integrating AWS Secrets Manager to EKS using External Secrets](https://containscloud.com/2024/03/24/integrating-aws-secrets-manager-to-eks-using-external-secrets/) - Managing kubernetes secrets in large scale is a challenging task for many companies in a world runned by kubernetes, gitops and automation everywhere. With the advent of GitOps, engineers are encouraged to store and manage infrastructure as code (e.g. control planes, kubernetes yaml's) in a Git repository as single source of truth but for secrets - [Using ECR as Cache Repository for public images](https://containscloud.com/2024/08/05/using-ecr-as-cache-repository-for-public-images/) - Efficient image management is essential for smooth deployments and stremlined development workflows and rely only on Docker Hub to pull public images can lead to rate limits and slower pulls. Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) offers a robust solution by serving as a cache repository for public Docker images. Leveraging ECR not only enhances the - [Integrando AWS Secrets Manager ao EKS usando External Secrets](https://containscloud.com/pt/2024/03/24/integrando-aws-secrets-manager-ao-eks-usando-external-secrets/) - Gerir segredos em larga escala é uma tarefa complicada para muitas empresas, principalmente em ambientes com Kubernetes, GitOps e automações por todo lado. Com o advento do GitOps, somos incentivados a armazenar e gerenciar a infraestrutura como código em um repositório Git, mas, os segredos são uma exceção, e tendem a ser armazenados em cofres - [Utilizando ECR como Cache Repository para imagens públicas](https://containscloud.com/pt/2024/08/05/utilizando-ecr-como-cache-repository-para-imagens-publicas/) - O gerenciamento eficiente de imagens é essencial para implantações fluídas e ciclos de desenvolvimento contínuo, e confiar apenas no Docker Hub para baixar imagens públicas pode levar a limitação de pedidos e downloads mais lentos. O Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) oferece uma solução robusta, servindo como um repositório de cache para imagens públicas de - [O cache do Amazon API Gateway realmente faz diferença?](https://containscloud.com/pt/2024/09/02/o-cache-do-amazon-api-gateway-realmente-faz-diferenca/) - Sempre que o assunto é performance de APIs, o uso de cache é uma das soluções mais abordadas. Ao utilizar cache para armazenar respostas estáticas (ou que mudam com pouca frequência), podemos reduzir a carga do servidor e aumentar os tempos de resposta, o que o torna uma solução essencial para a otimização do desempenho. - [Is the Amazon API Gateway cache feature a game changer?](https://containscloud.com/2024/09/02/is-the-amazon-api-gateway-cache-feature-a-game-changer/) - When discussing API performance, caching often emerges as a key strategy. By storing responses from frequently accessed endpoints that are static or change infrequently, caching reduces server load and speeds up response times, making it a go-to solution for performance optimization. There are many ways to implement caching, from the application layer (in the code) - [Como acelerar a configuração do cluster do Kubernetes usando o FluxCD – Parte 1](https://containscloud.com/pt/2024/04/26/como-acelerar-a-configuracao-do-cluster-do-kubernetes-usando-o-fluxcd-parte-1/) - Já teve que criar um novo cluster de Kubernetes e pensou: "Ah não, cadê o HelmChart que eu usei para instalar o operador X no cluster atual?". No mundo corporativo, ter que provisionar novos clusters de Kubernetes pode ser uma tarefa recorrente e dolorosa. Seja para testes de Recuperação ao Desastre, segregação de departamentos, testes - [How to accelerate the Kubernetes cluster configuration using FluxCD - Part1](https://containscloud.com/2024/04/26/how-to-accelerate-the-kubernetes-cluster-configuration-using-fluxcd-part1/) - Have you ever had to create a new kubernetes cluster and thought "Oh no, where is the helm chart I used to install and configure the operator X in the current cluster?". On a enterprise scale, having to provision new kubernetes clusters can be a recurring and painful task. Whether it's for Disaster Recovery tests, - [Como acelerar a configuração do cluster de Kubernetes usando o FluxCD - Parte 2](https://containscloud.com/pt/2024/05/17/como-acelerar-a-configuracao-do-cluster-do-kubernetes-usando-o-fluxcd-parte-2/) - Olá pessoal, tudo certo? Esta é uma postagem de duas partes, portanto, se você perdeu a parte 1, eu recomendo vivamente que leia: This is a two-part post, so if you missed part 1, I truly recommend you to read it: Como acelerar a configuração do cluster do Kubernetes usando o FluxCD - Parte 2. - [How to accelerate the Kubernetes cluster configuration using FluxCD – Part2](https://containscloud.com/2024/05/17/how-to-accelerate-the-kubernetes-cluster-configuration-using-fluxcd-part2/) - What’s up folks? This is a two-part post, so if you missed part 1, I truly recommend you to read it: How to accelerate the Kubernetes cluster configuration using FluxCD – Part1. In the last post, we've seen how to use FluxCD to install global components to our Kubernetes cluster and now it's time to ## Pages - [Blog](https://containscloud.com/blog/) - Home / Blog By • - [About me 👋🏻](https://containscloud.com/about/) - Thanks for visiting my blog. I hope it was useful! My name is Diego Marques, I'm Brazilian 🇧🇷 living in Portugal 🇵🇹 and here I share some of my experience in Cloud Computing (mostly AWS and Azure), Kubernetes and Observability. You'll also be able to find some of my labs, study practices, or anything else - [events](https://containscloud.com/events/) - [Sobre mim 👋🏻](https://containscloud.com/pt/👋🏻-sobre-mim/) - Obrigado por visitar meu blog. Espero que tenha sido útil! Meu nome é Diego Marques, sou Brasileiro 🇧🇷 mas vivo em Portugal 🇵🇹 desde 2019. 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