Mark ThebaultMark Thebault is a principal architect working at the intersection of Agentic AI and platform engineering. Essays, field notes, and project work on building production-grade AI on solid platform foundations.https://www.mark-thebault.pro/en-usTabucom: HTML Plans for AI Agentshttps://www.mark-thebault.pro/articles/tabucom-html-plans-for-ai-agents/https://www.mark-thebault.pro/articles/tabucom-html-plans-for-ai-agents/A small open source tool for publishing Markdown, HTML, and static front-ends from AI agent workflows.Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTagentic-aitoolsfrontendopen-sourceFrom Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineeringhttps://www.mark-thebault.pro/articles/from-vibe-coding-to-agentic-engineering/https://www.mark-thebault.pro/articles/from-vibe-coding-to-agentic-engineering/A shorter note on treating AI agents less like magic autocomplete and more like fast new employees who need context, boundaries, and review.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTagentic-aiengineeringllmworkflowApache Spark, the new way!https://www.mark-thebault.pro/articles/spark-k8s/https://www.mark-thebault.pro/articles/spark-k8s/A practical look at running Apache Spark on Kubernetes, from cluster setup to submitting a Pi job.Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMTbigdatasparkjupyterkubernetesRunning Docker Swarm in AWShttps://www.mark-thebault.pro/articles/docker-swarm/https://www.mark-thebault.pro/articles/docker-swarm/How to bootstrap a production-ready Docker Swarm cluster on AWS with Terraform, Ansible, a bastion host, and a default load balancer.Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMTdockerswarmclusterawsGDPR Compliant? Let's check!https://www.mark-thebault.pro/articles/pii-data-checker/https://www.mark-thebault.pro/articles/pii-data-checker/A Spark and Jupyter walkthrough for scanning datasets for personally identifiable information before GDPR trouble starts.Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMTbigdatagdprsparkjupyterBuild a Kubernetes cluster with Kopshttps://www.mark-thebault.pro/articles/kops-kubernetes-aws/https://www.mark-thebault.pro/articles/kops-kubernetes-aws/A small Terraform module for preparing the AWS resources needed to build a Kubernetes cluster with kops.Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMTawsec2kopskubernetesterraformGet connected! Transit VPC on AWShttps://www.mark-thebault.pro/articles/transit-vpc/https://www.mark-thebault.pro/articles/transit-vpc/A lightweight Transit VPC setup on AWS using VyOS to connect multiple VPCs through VPN tunnels.Sat, 04 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMTawsnetworkvpctransitvpcvyos