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Technical deep dives, production war stories, and engineering insights from the trenches of cloud-native infrastructure.
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A Fully Working Monitoring Cluster for All Your Kubernetes Clusters
How I built a central Kubernetes monitoring cluster with Mimir, Loki, Alloy, Kafka and Rook-Ceph, all deployed through ArgoCD from a GitOps repo.
My First Open Source Contribution: Fixing Grype OCI Scans in Artifact Keeper
How a work PoC led me to fix a real Artifact Keeper Grype OCI scan bug in my first open source contribution.
Stop Wasting CPU: The QoS & VPA Playbook
How pod QoS classes, the scheduler's blind spot, and vertical autoscaling work together illustrated with real overcommitment data from a prod cluster.
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A Fully Working Monitoring Cluster for All Your Kubernetes Clusters
How I built a central Kubernetes monitoring cluster with Mimir, Loki, Alloy, Kafka and Rook-Ceph, all deployed through ArgoCD from a GitOps repo.
My First Open Source Contribution: Fixing Grype OCI Scans in Artifact Keeper
How a work PoC led me to fix a real Artifact Keeper Grype OCI scan bug in my first open source contribution.
Stop Wasting CPU: The QoS & VPA Playbook
How pod QoS classes, the scheduler's blind spot, and vertical autoscaling work together illustrated with real overcommitment data from a prod cluster.