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Jose Manuel Pires Dias

Electronics Engineer

AI-managed development and cloud infrastructure. I build things that work.

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Recent Posts

Upgrading ArgoCD Across Three Major Versions Without Breaking Every Deployment

Infrastructure ArgoCD Kubernetes

ArgoCD was 16 months behind — spanning chart versions 7 through 9 and six ArgoCD releases. Here's how I stepped through three major upgrades on a system that manages every deployment in the cluster.

Migrating from ingress-nginx to Traefik with Zero Downtime

Infrastructure Traefik Kubernetes

ingress-nginx is retiring in March 2026. Here's how I migrated eight services to Traefik using a parallel deployment strategy — no downtime, no drama.

Hello World

Writing Meta

First post on the new blog — a quick tour of the stack.