Engineering Build Notes #3: When 200Gi Was More Storage Than the Nodes NeededHow measuring Kubernetes node storage usage led to a simpler capacity decision in an Amazon EKS cluster. Engineering Build Notes is a series where I document engineering decisions, platform improvemeSep 15 · 10 min readadedamolaajibola.hashnode.dev
Engineering Build Notes #2: When an Idle Kubernetes Cluster Still Couldn't ConsolidateHow Kubernetes resource requests became a scheduling constraint in an Amazon EKS cluster. Engineering Build Notes is a series where I document engineering decisions, platform improvements, and infrasSep 13 · 8 min readadedamolaajibola.hashnode.dev
Engineering Build Notes #1: Why Bigger EC2 Instances Reduced Our AWS CostsA cost optimization exercise that challenged my assumptions about infrastructure sizing in Amazon EKS. Engineering Build Notes is a series where I document engineering decisions, platform improvementJul 9 · 5 min readadedamolaajibola.hashnode.dev
Engineering Debug Diaries #1: The ImagePullBackOff That Wasn't KubernetesHow a missing GitHub Actions output caused an ImagePullBackOff and the engineering lessons it taught me about building reliable CI/CD pipelines Engineering Debug Diaries is a series where I documentJun 27 · 5 min readadedamolaajibola.hashnode.dev
The EKS 1.32 1.33 Upgrade That Broke Everything (And How I Fixed It)Introduction Upgrading Kubernetes should be boring. This one wasn’t. I recently upgraded a production Amazon EKS cluster from 1.32 to 1.33, expecting a routine change. Instead, it triggered a cascading failure: Nodes went NotReady Add-ons stalled i...Dec 26, 2025 · 4 min readadedamolaajibola.hashnode.dev
