Kubernetes
Production cluster orchestration — MicroK8s on bare metal and managed K8s.
Technologies
Our stack
What we use daily on client projects and on UpTheMind.io. Not conference slides — production deployments, observability, GitOps.
DevOps & Infrastructure
Kubernetes-first stack on bare metal and in the cloud. GitOps, IaC, observability.
Helm
Templating and versioning Kubernetes manifests.
ArgoCD
GitOps deploy — git is the source of truth, the cluster just executes.
Salt
Configuration management for server fleets (master/minion, pillars).
Prometheus
Metrics, alerting, time-series database.
Grafana
Dashboards and visualization for metrics and logs (Loki).
Cloudflare
DNS, CDN, edge security and tunneling.
GitLab
Git hosting + CI/CD pipelines for production deployments.
Backend & development
Python core, typed JavaScript, polyglot persistence.
Python
Primary language for backend, data pipelines and AI services.
FastAPI
Async REST APIs with automatic OpenAPI documentation.
TypeScript
Typed JavaScript for backend and frontend.
Node.js
Runtime for real-time services and edge functions.
PostgreSQL
Primary OLTP database, vector search via pgvector.
MongoDB
Document store for flexible schemas.
Redis
Cache, queues and pub/sub messaging.
AI & RAG
Production-grade RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, local and cloud inference.
Anthropic Claude
Reasoning model for agents and long-context tasks.
OpenAI
GPT models, embeddings and Whisper for audio.
LangChain
RAG pipelines and tool-use orchestration.
Qdrant
Vector database for embeddings at scale.
Ollama
Local LLM inference for sensitive on-prem data.
Frontend
Static sites, SPAs and enterprise apps. Utility-first CSS.
Astro
Content-first sites — this site runs on Astro.
React
SPAs and interactive components.
Angular
Enterprise frontends with strict structure.
Vue
Reactive components for mid-size projects.
Tailwind CSS
Utility-first styling, design system in classes.
Vite
Fast build tooling and dev server.