Mikhail Shilkov is a software engineer and cloud infrastructure expert with deep experience in AI-assisted developer tools, Infrastructure as Code, and Pulumi.
54 articles from this blog
Explains how Claude Code's new 'skills' feature works, detailing their folder structure, tool definition, and invocation process.
A technical analysis of Claude Code's WebFetch and WebSearch tools, detailing their internal architecture and processing pipelines.
Analysis of changes in Claude Code 2.0's system prompt, showing less prescriptive guidance and more trust in the Sonnet 4.5 model.
Explains how to use Pulumi's Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server to integrate AI assistants like Cursor for faster, more intuitive Infrastructure as Code development.
Pulumi introduces customizable auto-naming for cloud resources, allowing teams to define naming patterns that follow their organizational standards.
Pulumi now integrates with Azure Deployment Environments, allowing enterprise developers to define and deploy cloud infrastructure using Pulumi IaC.
Introducing Pulumi's Java SDK for Infrastructure as Code, enabling developers to manage cloud resources using Java and JVM languages.
Announcing Pulumi's support for Azure Container Apps, a new serverless container platform for microservices, with details on its features and open-source integrations.
Explains how to configure the number of History service shards in Temporal for optimal performance, balancing contention and resource use.
Introduces Maru, an open-source load testing tool designed for capacity planning and performance benchmarking of Temporal workflow deployments.
Compares Farmer and Pulumi for infrastructure as code in F#, and shows how to use both tools together for Azure deployments.
A tutorial on using Pulumi's infrastructure-as-code to provision and configure an Azure Synapse analytics workspace with components like SQL pools and storage.
AWS Lambda now supports deploying functions as container images, enabling custom runtimes, larger packages, and familiar Docker workflows.
Explains Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) tools, their key components, and their role in tracking complex, serverless business processes.
A technical guide on deploying the Temporal workflow orchestration platform to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Pulumi and TypeScript.
A technical guide for deploying the Temporal workflow orchestration platform to Azure Container Instances using Pulumi and Go.
A guide to Temporal's architecture, covering workers, the Temporal Service, and data storage for building reliable applications.
Introduces Temporal, an open-source platform for building resilient, distributed workflows as code, comparing it to Azure Durable Functions.
Announcing the beta release of a next-generation Pulumi provider for Azure, offering full API coverage and automatic updates.
Explains techniques for reliably awaiting all tasks in a .NET application, using the Pulumi SDK's asynchronous model as an example.
