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Open source is free to use. It has never been free to make. Open source sits underneath almost every piece of software shipped today. Frameworks, databases, build tools and the libraries inside them are, in large part, written and maintained by peop...

Every company today is running on a pile of software- CRM here, HR tool there, some project management app, an internal chat tool, and honestly a few others nobody even remembers signing up for. Sound familiar? Most enterprises are living in this exa...

Building a web-based IPTV player with JavaScript is a practical way to understand how modern live video applications work in the browser. What looks like a simple interface with a channel list and a video window actually involves several different te...

Building an IPTV player for the web is an interesting frontend engineering project because it sits at the intersection of React development, HTML5 video, HTTP streaming, playlist management, browser APIs, and user experience. At first glance, an IPT...

Prediction markets are changing the way people interact with future events. Instead of simply consuming information, users can express their expectations by trading on potential outcomes. From sports and financial events to elections, entertainment, ...

The framing problem Most “Kamal vs Kubernetes” articles are written by people who just discovered Kamal and are excited about it. They frame it as a simpler alternative that embarrasses Kubernetes. That framing is wrong and it wil...

Originally published at vibeagentmaking.comhttps://vibeagentmaking.com/blog/platform-ecology-trophic-cascades/ In 1963, a zoologist named Robert T. Paine began prying sea stars off rocks at Mukkaw Bay, Washington. Before the removals, his plot held...

Kubernetes 1.36 lands on April 22, and one of the headline features is something the community has been asking for since Kubernetes 1.16: the HPAScaleToZero feature gate, now in beta. The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler can finally scale a deployment down ...

Anti-Cargo-Cult Platform Engineering for Kubernetes at Scale A White Paper on Talos Linux and Omni — Part 4 of 4 > This is Part 4, the final part of a four-part series. > - Part 1 — The cargo cult problem and Talos as an anti-pattern breaker > - P...

Anti-Cargo-Cult Platform Engineering for Kubernetes at Scale A White Paper on Talos Linux and Omni — Part 3 of 4 > This is Part 3 of a four-part series. > - Part 1 — The cargo cult problem and Talos as an anti-pattern breaker > - Part 2 — Day-2 op...

Anti-Cargo-Cult Platform Engineering for Kubernetes at Scale A White Paper on Talos Linux and Omni — Part 2 of 4 > This is Part 2 of a four-part series. > - Part 1 — The cargo cult problem and Talos as an anti-pattern breaker > - Part 2 this post:...

Anti-Cargo-Cult Platform Engineering for Kubernetes at Scale A White Paper on Talos Linux and Omni — Part 1 of 4 > This is Part 1 of a four-part series. > - Part 1 this post: The cargo cult problem and Talos as an anti-pattern breaker > - Part 2: ...

Introduction: When a Tool Choice Becomes a Legal and Platform Decision If you’ve been operating Kubernetes clusters for a while, you’ve probably learned this the hard way:tooling decisions don’t stay “just tooling” for long. What starts as a d...

Howdy, In this chapter, we're going to look at how to expose services running inside our Kubernetes cluster to the outside world using an Ingress Controller. We'll be using the NGINX Ingress Controller and taking full advantage of our GitOps setup w...

Howdy, Secrets are a fundamental part of any application - it's how we securely store sensitive information. In Kubernetes, there are several approaches to handling secrets. In this chapter, we'll explore different ways to manage secrets in Kubernet...

Howdy! Ever since I discovered GitOps, I've been in love with the concept. The idea of managing all your infrastructure configuration from a centralized Git repository - and having a tool automatically apply those changes - is incredibly powerful. ...

Howdy! We've come a long way! We've set up our Kubernetes cluster, configured GitOps with ArgoCD, managed secrets securely, exposed applications through Ingress, and set up DNS with SSL certificates. But there's one critical piece we haven't address...