#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pgBackRest Is No Longer Maintained: PostgreSQL Backup Alternatives After the Project Stalls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, ending thirteen years of active development and leaving CrunchyData PGO and Percona operators with no maintained backup alternative.
Azure NAT Gateway Blocks [Tailscale Direct Connect](/articles/crawshaws-i-am-building-a-cloud-what-a-tailscale-co-founders-solo-stack-implies/); 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](/articles/crawshaws-i-am-building-a-cloud-what-a-tailscale-co-founders-solo-stack-implies/) 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.