Blog Posts

Taming the AI Beast: The Role of the LLM Gateway

• Haggai Philip Zagury (hagzag)
• Developer experience ( dev ex)

In a personal setting, managing AI costs might be a matter of checking your credit card statement. But for an organization with multiple teams, projects, and AI providers, it’s a financial and operational challenge.

The Cost of Conversations

• Haggai Philip Zagury (hagzag)
• Developer experience ( dev ex)

This post was originally published on Israeli Tech Radar.

We’ve all been there: a simple question to an AI model turns into a lengthy, back-and-forth “vibe session.” It’s effortless, it’s creative, and it feels free. But behind every token is a hidden cost, and the bill at the end of the month can be a surprise.

From smoke to sanity: how I unintentionally used Pomodoro and rebuilt my focus after quitting

• Haggai Philip Zagury (hagzag)
• Medium publications

Originally posted on the Israeli Tech Radar on medium.

TLDR: For 25 years in the demanding world of IT, I had a secret productivity weapon. It wasn’t a tool or a certification; it was a ritual that could cut through the thickest mental fog and reset my brain on the most complex problems.

Tikal's DevOps Squad (Hebrew)

• Haggai Philip Zagury (hagzag)
• Development , Developer experience ( dev ex) , Presentations , Webinar , Kubernetes , Youtube , 12 15 factors

I shortly explain how Tikal’s DevOps Squad-as-a-Service solution works. Check it out.

Building Production-Ready AI Agent Workflows: MCP Integration and Operational Excellence

• Haggai Philip Zagury (hagzag)
• Medium publications

This is Part 2 of our series on AI agents in DevOps. If you haven’t read Part 1: From AI Assistants to AI Agents, I recommend starting there to understand the foundational concepts.

From Prompts to Agents — a DevOps Engineer navigating the AI Landscape

• Haggai Philip Zagury (hagzag)
• Medium publications

TLDR; A.I is no longer a futuristic concept; it’s fundamentally changing how we work today. For those of us specializing in DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering, this shift presents both incredible opportunities and new challenges. We’ve moved quickly from debating if AI will impact our work to figuring out how to effectively integrate it and adapt our skillsets to stay relevant and valuable.

Building a Data Platform over Cloud Native Environments (Webinar 26/3/25- Hebrew)

• Haggai Philip Zagury (hagzag)
• Development , Developer experience ( dev ex) , Presentations , Webinar , Kubernetes , Youtube , 12 15 factors

A 30 minuets video on the 15 factors and how they become achecklist to me.

From 12-15 Factors (Hebrew)

• Haggai Philip Zagury (hagzag)
• Development , Developer experience ( dev ex) , Presentations , Webinar , Kubernetes , Youtube , 12 15 factors

A 30 minuets video on the 15 factors and how they become achecklist to me.

App-Driven-IaC with Crossplane | Meetup slides

• Haggai Philip Zagury (hagzag)
• Presentations

App-Driven-IaC with Crossplane which I presented warlier this evening at ZoomInfo meetup.

Using S3 as Local Storage on kubernetes with S3 CSI Driver

• Haggai Philip Zagury (hagzag)
• Medium publications

Originally posted on the Israeli Tech Radar on medium.

TLDR; In the world of cloud-native applications, efficient and scalable storage solutions are crucial. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a popular object storage service, but what if you could use it as local storage in your Kubernetes clusters? Enter the S3 CSI (Container Storage Interface) Driver, a game-changer for developers and operations teams alike.