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This is the third post in my Kubernetes Controllers series. In the first post, we explored what controllers are and how they maintain your desired state through continuous reconciliation. In the second post I walk through how to build stable controllers from scratch. Now we’ll examine how three critical controllers interact to manage your applications. We were rolling out a new version of an application. 100 pods, all running about 25% hot on CPU. ...

Back in grad school I used to make some extra cash by coaching and writing articles about Hearthstone (an online collectible card game made by Blizzard). I primarily wrote “deck techs”, guides that explained how to play the most powerful and consistent decks that were dominating the scene. I loved this job, it was a surprisingly technical creative outlet and paid for the occasional treat meals at my favorite restaurant in St. Louis, Salt n Smoke. ...

Most SRE-aligned engineers will tell you they have a home lab. Depending on how grey the beard is, it may be an old blade they acquired when a company moved data centers, an intricate setup of Raspberry Pi 4s set up in a custom cooling rack, or like me and many others, it may just be an old gaming computer they no longer use but cannot bring themselves to get rid of. Whatever it may be, it’s usually used for learning, tinkering, or to run some of the /r/selfhosted favorites. ...

It’s a system (sigh) built on getting people to buy things they can’t reasonably afford through the veil of “it’s only X a month.” Unnecessary consumer debt sets people up to fail by putting them on a treadmill of excess consumption they believe is under control. Sticker shock is a good thing. If you see the price tag of something and it has your head reeling, there’s probably a good reason you shouldn’t be buying it. ...