Cloud
Autoscaling Policies That Actually Work Under Real Traffic
Why naive CPU-based autoscaling fails under real traffic patterns, and the metric choices and tuning that make autoscaling respond correctly instead of thrashing.
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Tag
Kubernetes
9 articles
Google
Borg: The Cluster Manager That Quietly Became Kubernetes' Blueprint
Inside Borg, Google's internal cluster manager, and how its ideas about scheduling, priority, and bin packing became the design for Kubernetes.
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Cloud
Managed Kubernetes: What the Provider Actually Does for You
EKS, GKE, and AKS all promise to take Kubernetes operations off your plate, but the actual division of responsibility is narrower than most teams assume.
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DevOps
Blue-Green vs Canary Deployments: Choosing the Right Rollout Strategy
A concrete comparison of blue-green and canary deployment strategies, including the infrastructure they each require and where one clearly beats the other.
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Pinterest
Moving Pinterest's Fleet to Kubernetes
How Pinterest migrated thousands of services onto Kubernetes and built internal platform abstractions so product teams didn't need to become infrastructure experts.
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DevOps
Secrets Management Approaches in Modern Infrastructure
A comparison of secrets management patterns, from environment variables to dedicated vaults, and how to pick the right one without overengineering a simple app.
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DevOps
GitOps: Declarative Deployment Workflows Done Right
How GitOps replaces imperative deploy scripts with a reconciled, auditable source of truth, and the practical patterns for running it well with Argo CD or Flux.
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DevOps
Helm Charts: Values, Templates, and the Gotchas That Bite in Production
A practical look at how Helm's values and templating actually resolve, plus the recurring mistakes that turn a simple chart into a debugging session.
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DevOps
Kubernetes Liveness, Readiness, and Startup Probes, Explained Properly
The difference between liveness, readiness, and startup probes in Kubernetes, and the common misconfigurations that cause restart loops and dropped traffic.
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