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Databases & query engines

Columnar storage, SQL at scale, and the craft of fast reads.

Coming soon — long-form writing on this topic is on the way.

Systems & open source

Infra, observability, and things shipped in public.

  1. Karpenter: Midas Touch for K8s Cluster

    How Newton School cut EC2 costs ~60% (~$160k/year) by migrating from Cluster Autoscaler to Karpenter on EKS.

    • karpenter
    • kubernetes
    • eks
    • aws

  2. Scaling stories — journey from EC2 to Kubernetes

    A startup scaling parable — vertical EC2, load balancers, Docker, Jenkins, microservices, and Kubernetes on AWS.

    • kubernetes
    • docker
    • aws
    • devops
    • scaling

  3. GSoC 2020, Prometheus (CNCF)

    EKS support for Prombench and Funcbench — making Prometheus test infra work beyond GKE.

    • prometheus
    • gsoc
    • kubernetes
    • cncf