Spotlight
Jitin Kayyala
This article explains service mesh patterns for managing microservice communication, covering how sidecars like Envoy handle retries, circuit breakers, timeouts, and load balancing transparently.
Vasily Pilitsyn
This article shows how KRO manages ephemeral test environments as single Kubernetes API objects by orchestrating resource deployment in dependency order, with readiness conditions and a unified status across namespace, frontend, backend, and database.
David L. Armstrong
This case study debugs 30+ second GitHub ARC workflow pod startup delays caused by mixing nodeName with OpenEBS allowedTopologies constraints, resolving it by enabling ACTIONS_RUNNER_USE_KUBE_SCHEDULER to use nodeAffinity instead.
Farid Guluzade
This case study shows how reducing JVM MaxRAMPercentage, cutting the Hikari connection pool from 50 to 20, and implementing aggressive HPA scale-up (0s stabilization, 4 pods/min) doubled traffic capacity while cutting baseline pods from 26 to 10.
Tools and utilities
zeropod is a tool that automatically checkpoints containers to disk after a certain amount of time of the last TCP connection, allowing for fast and seamless scaling down to zero.
K8sQuest is a local Kubernetes learning game with 50 progressive challenges where you fix broken clusters using kubectl with real-time monitoring, progressive hints, and post-mission debriefs running on kind.
flux9s is a terminal interface for monitoring Flux GitOps resources in real time with K9s inspired navigation.
b4n is a k9s-inspired terminal UI for Kubernetes written in Rust, built on kube-rs and ratatui with full CRUD, log streaming, shell access, and port forwarding.
Kubechecks allows users of GitHub and GitLab to see exactly what their changes will affect on their current Argocd deployments and automatically run various conformance test suites prior to merging.
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Managed Kubernetes on a major cloud provider can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month — and much of that spending hides behind defaults, minimum resource ratios, and auxiliary services you didn't ask for.
Fernando Duran, founder of SadServers, shares how his GKE Autopilot proof of concept ran close to $1,000/month on a fraction of the CPU of the actual workload and how he cut that to roughly $30/month by moving to Hetzner with Edka as a managed control plane.
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The decision comes down to how tightly coupled you are to cloud-specific services and whether your team can spare the cycles to manage the gaps.
Learn from production
Mateen Ali Anjum
This case study describes rebuilding a fragile Kubernetes infrastructure into a production-grade platform for GPU-based ML workloads, improving deployment frequency from weekly to 10+ times daily.
Ron Matsliah
This article describes how the team at Next Insurance built an AI-powered microservice that watches build failures via Jenkins, analyzes logs automatically and posts clear, helpful feedback to Slack.
Scout24
This case study shows how Scout24 turned an Amazon Linux 2 end-of-life deadline into a 30% reduction in nodes across their EKS clusters by combining OS migration with Karpenter adoption.
Pinterest Engineering
This case study explains how Pinterest migrated its search system (Manas) to Kubernetes and tracked down a rare performance issue.
They found cAdvisor’s memory metric scanning caused huge latency spikes.
Matching jobs
Data Engineer with PitchBook Data
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Build something
Suraj Bhattarai
This tutorial teaches how to implement multi-tenancy on Google Kubernetes Engine using namespaces for isolation, RBAC for access control, and resource quotas for capacity management.
Kristi Ndoni
This tutorial teaches how to migrate PostgreSQL databases to CloudNativePG on Kubernetes using logical replication without downtime.
Furuse Shugo
This tutorial teaches how to build a home Kubernetes cluster using three Raspberry Pi 4 devices for hands-on learning and experimentation.
Son Ng.
This tutorial teaches how to autoscale Kafka consumers on Kubernetes using KEDA and consumer lag as the scaling metric with Confluent Platform.
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More articles
Sean Ankenbruck
This article shows how to build a home Kubernetes cluster using Raspberry Pi hardware as a cost-effective alternative to cloud services for development and learning.
Rodrigo Caldas
This article shows how to use tofu-controller to manage Terraform resources with GitOps for external systems like Grafana dashboards and HashiCorp Vault policies with continuous reconciliation and automatic drift detection.
Velorum
This article covers 10 Kubernetes HPA scaling signals beyond CPU — RPS, queue lag, p95 latency, in-flight requests, error rate, and saturation metrics — with YAML examples and pitfalls for each.
Mariem Sboui
This article shares hidden Kubernetes bad practices discovered through production incidents covering troubleshooting challenges, configuration mistakes, and operational lessons learned by a Site Reliability Engineer.