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Serverless & Edge
Cold Starts Are Not the Problem With Serverless
Cold start latency is measurable, bounded, and largely solved. The genuine serverless difficulties are connection management, local testing, and cost…
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Kubernetes & Containers
Etcd Is the Single Point of Failure Everyone Forgets Is There
Every object in the cluster lives in etcd, and its performance ceiling is far lower than most teams assume until…
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Kubernetes & Containers
Helm Values Files Grow Until Nobody Understands Them
A values file that started with twenty settings accumulates hundreds over two years, and every one of them looks equally…
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Platform Engineering
Environment Variables Are the Wrong Place for Secrets
A secret in an environment variable appears in crash dumps, child processes, container inspection output and error reporting payloads.
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Platform Engineering
Self-Service Infrastructure Fails Without Guardrails Baked Into the Same Click
Letting developers provision their own infrastructure only works if the correct configuration is also the easiest one to select.
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Kubernetes & Containers
Pod Affinity Rules Silently Stop Working When the Label Changes
An anti-affinity rule referencing a label that a deployment template no longer sets does not error. The scheduler simply stops…