kubernetes

There’s a particular kind of dread that comes from finding out about an outage from a customer instead…

I once ran a “highly available” service with six replicas that, thanks to nothing enforcing distribution, ended up…

CPU-based autoscaling is a reasonable default until it isn’t. I ran a message queue consumer service for a…

Every so often I inherit an app whose startup script does five different things before the real process…

There’s a meaningful difference between “monitoring” and “alerting,” and I didn’t fully appreciate it until I was staring…

I once watched a single misconfigured Deployment — a bad replicas value combined with no resource limits —…

Anyone who has spent more than a few weeks running production workloads on Kubernetes eventually hits the same…

The first time I had to deploy the same application to three environments — dev, staging, production —…

If there’s one topic in Kubernetes security that trips people up through pure naming confusion, it’s this one.…

Most people learn about PodAffinity the hard way: a latency-sensitive service and its cache end up scheduled on…