Introduction
We left off on a high note. The Kubernetes cluster was alive. But as any engineer knows, a working system is often just the prelude to the next, more interesting problem. While the cluster was technically functional, its architecture had a hidden Achilles' heel: a single point of failure for all incoming traffic.
My mission was clear: eliminate it. The tool for the job was MetalLB, and the task seemed simple. I was wrong.…
You’re in the final interview for a Senior Platform Engineer role. You’re at the whiteboard. The CTO leans forward and asks, "How would you design our observability strategy from scratch?"
You know the tools. You've done this before. Confidently, you dive straight in : "I'd use Prometheus for metrics, Loki for logs because it's cost-effective, OpenTelemetry for tracing...".
The CTO cuts you off. "I don't need a list of tools. I asked for a strategy."
At this moment, you realise that something is missin…
Introduction
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by systems—how they work, how they break, and how they can be made better. As a developer, I’ve always sought ways to streamline my workflows and take control of my tools. That’s why I decided to build my own Kubernetes cluster at home. Driven by my passion for systems and coding, I wanted to create a self-owned cloud. I also believe that individual control of digital infrastructures leads to a more balanced world. Setting up eve…
I wanted to create a blog, and to automatically export the content to LinkedIn for a one input/multiple outputs system.
Blog
Using a sveltekit blog template and postgres, I deployed the website to my kubernetes cluster. The great advantage of this template was the incredibly easy content modification directly from the website, eliminating the need for CMS or repo update upon new blog posts creation.
I then simply added a webhook on blog creation, directed…
