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The autoscaler that hid a prefix cache collapse: 80% more GPUs
vLLM chained block hashes, RAG chunk boundaries, latency-driven scale-out, token-weighted hit rate, prefix-aware routing
 • Ilia Gusev
API priority and fairness: 600 seats, a 22-object list took 10
APF seats, workload-low, size-based list cost, FlowSchema, 429 Retry-After
 • Ilia Gusev
Issue #036 - PodGroup, skopeo, and the RBAC verb that skips escalation checks
Gang scheduling that ships switched off, a resize EBS refuses while optimizing, three ways to copy an image index, and the RBAC check that escalate…
 • Ilia Gusev
Bitnami, one year later: hardened base images went free
bitnamilegacy, Docker Hardened Images under Apache 2.0, Chainguard Catalog Starter, VEX-filtered CVE counts, stale Helm chart defaults
 • Ilia Gusev
subPath: the ConfigMap update 7 of our 12 pods never saw
subPath bind mounts, ..data symlink swaps, kubelet sync period, immutable ConfigMaps, Reloader
 • Ilia Gusev
Issue #035 - HolmesGPT, Job retries, and the IfNotPresent hole from 2015
An incident agent that is read-only until someone says yes, one retry budget for a thousand shards, the tenancy tool that changes your namespace count…
 • Ilia Gusev
The rolling update myth: your frontend is talking to next week's backend
version skew, session stickiness, deployment pinning, Gateway API, skew protection
 • Ilia Gusev
The scheduler that starts 7 of your 8 GPU pods, then bills you for all 8
partial scheduling, gang scheduling, Kueue ClusterQueue/LocalQueue, topology-aware placement
 • Ilia Gusev
Issue #034 - Gonzo, CloudEvents, and the container that held while the policy didn't
A k9s-inspired log viewer, an event envelope that stops at the envelope, Kubernetes Dashboard's official pick for what comes next, and five sandbox…
 • Ilia Gusev
The Flux Kustomization that adopted a namespace it never should have touched
path scope, targetNamespace, prune: true, atomic paths, .fluxignore
 • Ilia Gusev
The 25% of your node that's gone before the first pod lands
kube-reserved, eviction thresholds, pause containers, DaemonSet overhead, hosted control plane fees
 • Ilia Gusev
Issue #033 - TOON, zot, and the RCE Kubernetes calls working as intended
A token format that beats JSON by half, a registry that ditched the database, the Probe CRD gap nobody's closed, and a WebSocket handshake that skips…
 • Ilia Gusev
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