#kubernetes
6 articles exploring kubernetes. Expert insights and analysis from our editorial team.
Articles
Crawshaw's 'I Am Building a Cloud': What a Tailscale Co-Founder's Solo Stack Implies for Platform Teams
David Crawshaw's exe.dev launched with $35M, giving platform teams a concrete alternative to the Kubernetes default that forces TCO justification for cloud-native overhead.
pgBackRest Is No Longer Maintained: PostgreSQL Backup Alternatives After the Project Stalls
pgBackRest was archived on April 27, 2026, then revived within two weeks by a coalition of sponsors. PGX's simultaneous pgxbackup fork creates a two-tree decision landscape for PostgreSQL shops evaluating backup tooling.
Azure NAT Gateway Blocks Tailscale Direct Connect; v1.96.2 Fixes Container Relay Scaling for AKS
Azure NAT Gateway's Hard NAT forces Tailscale onto DERP; a public-subnet Peer Relay bypasses it. v1.96.2 fixes container GOMAXPROCS socket scaling for AKS relay instances.
KServe + llm-d Claims 57× P90 TTFT. RC1 Ships with a Routing Deadlock and No Migration Guide
Red Hat's KServe + llm-d integration claims 57× P90 TTFT gains against an unoptimized vLLM baseline, but RC1 ships with a known routing deadlock, a prematurely merged WIP.
Ingress-Nginx Is Dead, Not Deprecated: The Final CVE Patches Shipped, But Platform Teams Still Need a Migration Plan
ingress-nginx was retired March 24, 2026. CVE-2026-4342 patches shipped March 19, but no future fixes are coming. How platform teams should pick a migration path.
KV Cache Is Becoming a Distributed Infrastructure Layer: What KV Packet and llm-d Mean for Self-Hosted LLM Teams
KV Packet eliminates cross-request recomputation; llm-d brings cache-aware routing to Kubernetes. Here's what both mean for vLLM capacity planning.