Writing

Notes & essays.

Articles on platform engineering, DevOps, systems design, and the odd opinion piece.

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Kubernetes PDBs That Actually Budget

A `PodDisruptionBudget` with `minAvailable: 1` isn't a budget — it's a mood. Here's how to write ones that bind.

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Why I Run Traefik With Static Config in Production

Dynamic config looks flexible on the slide deck, but every outage I've traced in the last year came from a CRD reconcile loop. Here's the static-first pattern that's kept traffic quiet.

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