Anatomy of a Silent 502: The Four Characters That Explained a 60-Second TimeoutJul 18, 2026·9 min read·10
PinnedFrom The Vault: How SNAT Turned UDP Into a Stateful ProtocolCilium eBPF connection tracking, and how SNAT quietly turns stateless traffic into statefulJul 13, 2026·6 min read
Surviving A Complete ETCD Outage, Part 1: Snapshots, And Getting Them Back When the Cluster Is GoneJul 3, 2026·6 min read·5
Underneath (Micro)VMs: A Primer in H/W VirtualisationFrom CPU protection rings to context switches - understanding why standard VMs feel heavy and how MicroVMs are attempting to fix the bottleneck.Mar 18, 2026·5 min read·4
Why etcd Disk I/O Stalls Crash Your K8s PodsHow DIsk I/O stall impacted our production K8s clusterFeb 4, 2026·8 min read·4
Opinion: K8s IS Data-Oriented Programming. We Just Call It YAML.Why the "K8s Way" is actually a decades-old functional programming paradigm in disguise.Dec 26, 2025·7 min read·7
How Invisible Default Setting Can Break Production- War StoryDebugging an Outage: When Podman Defaults Break CassandraDec 16, 2025·5 min read·1
The Fastest Operation Is the One You Never PerformWhat sendfile(), eBPF, and Cilium taught me about Linux performanceNov 29, 2025·8 min read·2
From the Vault: Designing a Hybrid Cloud Render Farm Under Time ConstraintsAccount of an urgent initiative in retro-fitting an on-prem render farm design to burst render capacity into AWSOct 22, 2025·11 min read
