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Level Up Your GitLab CI: A Guide to Reducing Duplication and Improving Readability

• Ridae Hamdani
• 6 Min To Read
• 02 Dec, 2025
• • Devops

Managing complex CI/CD pipelines can be challenging, especially when your CI configuration contains complex logic and many lines of code. This often leads to high maintenance costs and duplicated code blocks, making updates and troubleshooting more difficult.

YAML is a Weird Beast

• Max Beckers
• 4 Min To Read
• 25 Nov, 2025
• • Software engineering

“YAML is a weird beast.”

Someone’s comment on a PR months ago triggered my curiosity.
I use YAML daily for configuration files: OpenAPI specs, Helm charts, Symfony configs, Spring Boot properties… yet I’d never questioned its inner workings. How complex could a configuration format really be?

CNAME - The hidden security risk in your DNS zone

• Jean-Baptiste Lanel
• 8 Min To Read
• 18 Nov, 2025
• • Cybersecurity

Domain Name System (DNS) records are fundamental to how the internet works, translating human-readable domain names into machine-readable IP addresses. Among these records, the CNAME (standing for Canonical Name) record is the most commonly used for delegating a website to a third-party provider. However, this seemingly simple delegation mechanism harbors significant security implications that are often overlooked.

SEPN - Secure's Electronic Payments

• Pascal Kleijer
• 4 Min To Read
• 27 Oct, 2025
• • Cybersecurity
  • Infrastructure and operations

Cashless payment security is becoming increasingly important for merchants, banks, and business partners, while the requirements are rising due to cyberattacks (DDoS or others), outages, or regulatory-compliant demands, it requires robust and well-protected networks & services.

No server needed: running AI in the browser

• Yassine Benabbas Sylvain Pollet-Villard
• 8 Min To Read
• 26 Aug, 2025
• • Development and programming

Recent advancements in browser technologies and optimizations in AI models make it possible to run AI directly in the browser, without the need for heavy server-side computations.

Scripting with Kotlin

• Yassine Benabbas
• 12 Min To Read
• 19 Aug, 2025
• • Development and programming

Let’s explore three ways to write scripts with Kotlin; the official *.main.kts files, kscript, and JBang. Plus a bonus with Kotlin notebooks.