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Technical writing on Kubernetes, delivery workflows, cloud foundations, observability, and the systems around modern platform engineering.
A practical Renovate Kubernetes guide: keep Helm charts, Argo CD manifests, image tags, OpenTofu providers, and GitHub Actions current without the PR flood.
Helm chart debt comes from the templating model, not the packaging. What it costs, what the alternatives change, and how we keep authoring charts anyway.
Kubernetes cost allocation with OpenCost: install it with Helm, query per-namespace showback from the Allocation API, and account for idle spend honestly.
Platform engineering day two starts when the launch is over and the real work begins: upgrades, adoption, maintenance, and funding a platform as a product.
LLM observability starts with traces: use OpenTelemetry GenAI conventions to see model calls, token usage, latency, and agent tool paths.
Right-sizing platform architecture means copying the principles behind big-tech systems, not the stack itself, so small teams avoid operational debt they do not need.
Learn how to use Argo Rollouts on Kubernetes for canary and blue-green deployments, automated rollback, and GitOps-based progressive delivery.
Karpenter changes EKS node autoscaling by launching right-sized EC2 nodes from pending pods, then consolidating and replacing them as the fleet drifts.
Use KEDA on Kubernetes to scale from queue depth, lag, and schedules, and understand when scale to zero is worth the cold-start trade-off.