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Your Kubernetes Cluster Is Not as Highly Available as You Think
September 15, 2026
Two or three replicas, spread across zones, health checks in place. Everything was "already HA". Then we looked closer. Six things we found hardening a production Kubernetes platform, and the gap between configured and working.
Read more →Karpenter: Rethinking Node Autoscaling on Kubernetes
July 3, 2026
Karpenter drops the node-group and ASG layer entirely, provisioning right-sized instances straight from the pod spec. Here's how it differs from the Cluster Autoscaler, its NodePool/NodeClass model, and how consolidation claws back capacity.
Read more →EKS Has No Pod Limit: Here's What's Actually Stopping You
June 19, 2026
EKS has no AWS-enforced pod-per-node quota — the cap you hit is really an IP-address ceiling. Here's how the VPC CNI math works and how prefix delegation lifts a node from 29 pods to 110.
Read more →Kubernetes Resource Requests and Limits: A Practical Guide
June 17, 2026
How resource requests, limits, and QoS classes work in Kubernetes — plus practical defaults for reserving node resources and protecting nodes from exhaustion.
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