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For the last 3 months, I’ve been working on VaccinateCA, a community-driven organization that discovers and publishes COVID-19 …
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Recently, I noticed something odd in my kitchen. The “Hot Cooktop” light was on, and sure enough, one of the hotplates was …
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What Happened In the most recent Kubernetes SIG-Network meeting (2020-04-02), a meta issue was raised. People had noted a decrease in …
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I’ve been using Kubernetes for a few years now, between 2 pretty different companies. Supporting multicluster applications was a …
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People outside of Silicon Valley (or more accurately, the whole San Francisco Bay Area) marvel at the levels of Bay Area salaries. …
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A few weeks ago I built a Kubernetes controller with controller-runtime, and was mostly pleasantly surprised at the experience, having …
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Many years ago, a friend and I joked about a cinematic universe concept: a world where everything was nuclear-powered. I mean …
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I’d like to introduce a project that I’ve been working on: the PinnedDeployment Kubernetes CRD. PinnedDeployments function …
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Autoscaling is common, as a compromise between spend and throughput of a system. Suppose I have some service that is set to autoscale …
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There’s a pattern I’ve seen several times while reviewing incidents. Someone says “the service <crashed | served …
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