Learn from production

• Why We Replaced Kubernetes HPA with KEDA — and Saved Our Event-Driven Platform from Silent Overload

  nutcas3

  This case study shows how a team replaced CPU-based HPA scaling with KEDA, using request rate, connection pressure, and queue depth to scale event-driven workloads before they overload.

• SIGTERM Doesn’t Mean “Stop”

  Amanzoot

  This case study shows how to stop restarts and deployments from causing outages by separating liveness and readiness probes and handling SIGTERM with a proper drain period.

• Your CI Pipeline Should Reject Any Service Without an Observability Contract

  Akhil

  This case study shows how a silent 47-minute outage pushed one team to block merges in CI with an OPA policy that rejects any service without proper observability settings.

• When failover isn't safe: building high-availability PostgreSQL on Kubernetes

  Shree Sampath

  This case study shows how a Datadog gameday exposed unsafe PostgreSQL failover on Kubernetes and how they made it safe with synchronous replication and Patroni.

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Build something

• Istio- MultiCluster MultiPrimary MultiNetwork Service Mesh on AWS EKS

  Syed Sulaiman A

  This tutorial shows how to connect two Amazon EKS clusters with an Istio multi-primary, multi-network mesh and view both through centralized Kiali.

• GKE IP exhaustion fixed: the Class E migration guide

  R M

  This tutorial shows how to fix GKE pod IP exhaustion without rebuilding the VPC by adding a Class E secondary range, creating a new node pool, and draining workloads onto nodes that use the new pod CIDR.

• Ephemeral Environments: Automating QA for Reliable Cloud-Native Systems

  Sheza Ashraf

  This tutorial shows how to give every pull request its own ephemeral Kubernetes environment so tests run in a clean, isolated setup, using GitHub Actions and Argo CD ApplicationSets.

• Migrating from Ingress NGINX to Gateway API on EKS

  Douglas Alves

  This tutorial shows how to move an EKS cluster from the retired ingress-nginx controller to Gateway API, covering the AWS Load Balancer Controller CRDs and a zero-downtime traffic shift.

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   The Call For Paper is open until 13 November 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

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   VCFTechcon 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 13 November 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

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   • The conference starts on the 1 December 2026.

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   DevFest Batumi 2026

   The Call For Paper is open until 14 November 2026 at GMT-5. More info →

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   • In-person conference organized by GDG Batumi.

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   DevFest Côte d'Ivoire 2026

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   • The conference starts on the 28 November 2026.

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More articles

• K8s Turn Off The Light

  Sam Ezebunandu

  This tutorial teaches how to use CronJobs, RBAC, ServiceAccounts, and the Go client-go library by building a three-cronjob system that dynamically adjusts Philips Hue light schedules based on daily sunrise/sunset forecasts from OpenWeatherMap.

• The missing control plane above vLLM

  Waleed Malik

  This article argues that vLLM in a pod is only the engine, and maps the layers a real LLM platform needs around it:

  • tenant keys and budgets,
  • inference-aware routing,
  • and GPU scheduling.
• Investigating High Memory Utilization in a WSO2 API Manager Deployment

  Dilky Liyanage

  This article explains why a JVM pod can sit at 90% memory and still be perfectly healthy, and how to compare pod memory with real heap usage before hunting for a leak.

• Building a Raspberry Pi Datacenter at Home

  Niki Dokovski

  This article shows how a twelve-board Raspberry Pi lab is put together, from cloud-init provisioning and static networking to a Ceph storage tier and a Kubernetes cluster sitting on top.

Even more articles →