Tag: kubernetes

All the articles with the tag "kubernetes".

• Fuckups and Fixups: Making Slow Software Fast

  26 Oct, 2026

  A 10-minute database transaction, memory-hungry Python workers, and painfully slow OCR. Three stories about making software faster by doing less.

• Runbook Notes 004: Cloud-Native Graceful Shutdowns

  4 Sep, 2025

  Runbook finally supports graceful shutdowns. In this update: fixing the lost context cancellation from Note 002, using Go’s errgroup to propagate errors, and a neat state-management pattern with first-class functions. No more zombie pods when workflows fail or get cancelled.

• Runbook Notes 002: Kubernetized

  1 Aug, 2025

  In this note, I dig into what changed when Runbook went Cloud-Native™: YAML parsers betrayed me, Go contexts stopped working, logs got messy, and yet... orchestration got real. Also, I'm pattenting the BORE acronym, and I still don’t have a database.