Cloud Foundations
Kubernetes is not a platform: it is a toolkit
Kubernetes is a control-plane substrate, and it needs product thinking, self-service and paved roads on top before it becomes a platform.
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Cloud Foundations
Kupe Cloud is in alpha: Kubernetes, without the assembly
Kupe Cloud is in alpha. We built it after wiring the same GitOps, secrets, ingress, and observability layer around Kubernetes clusters one time too many.
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Kubernetes
What good developer experience looks like in Kubernetes
Good Kubernetes developer experience comes from shorter feedback loops, lower cognitive load, and workflow defaults that keep developers out of raw YAML.
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Kubernetes
Helm charts are technical debt: blame the templating model
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.
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Nobody warns you about year two of platform engineering
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.
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Stop copying big-tech platform architecture
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.
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