Feb 12 · 4 min read · Karpenter Autoscaling: Smart Kubernetes Node Management The 3 AM Production Incident That Changed Everything Six months ago, our infrastructure failed spectacularly. Here's what I learned. Table of Contents Why Traditional Approaches Break Modern Cl...
Join discussionFeb 4 · 11 min read · Introduction Kubernetes has won the container orchestration war. In fact, it's the standard for running containerized applications at scale. The ecosystem is massive: Helm charts, operators, service meshes, observability tools - everything runs on Ku...
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Dec 26, 2025 · 4 min read · 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...
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Dec 4, 2025 · 3 min read · This blog post covers the real issues I ran into while upgrading Karpenter from v0.25.0 → v1.5.0 in production, why they happened, and the exact fixes. If you're planning this upgrade, this guide will save you hours of debugging. Background Upgrading...
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Sep 16, 2025 · 8 min read · How Riot Games Went from Lag to Legend: The $10M AWS Migration That Changed Gaming Forever Ever wondered how 180 million players worldwide can battle it out in VALORANT without rage-quitting over lag? Here's the story behind one of gaming's biggest i...
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Sep 16, 2025 · 4 min read · Managing node capacity in Kubernetes clusters has always been a challenge. Traditional autoscalers like Cluster Autoscaler work, but they can be slow, rigid, and not cost-optimized. That’s where Karpenter comes in. It’s a modern, high-performance Kub...
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Sep 14, 2025 · 9 min read · In modern cloud-native environments, scalability isn’t a luxury — it’s a survival skill. Kubernetes makes scaling workloads and infrastructure seamless, but the real magic happens when you combine pod-level and node-level autoscaling strategies. In t...
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Sep 7, 2025 · 11 min read · My work environment just introduced Karpenter as an Alternative to Cluster Autoscaler, and I had no Idea what Cluster Autoscaler itself was, so I went on a one-day rampage to learn about Karpenter and how it is better than Cluster Autoscaler, and how...
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Sep 5, 2025 · 17 min read · This blog post reviews the EKS workshop that was held on AWS Community Day Central Asia Conference in Almaty 22-23 August 2025. Workshop titled as “EKS. Optimization and FinOps. How to optimize resource usage and cut the costs in EKS.” was performed ...
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Aug 22, 2025 · 6 min read · In today’s world, learning DevOps is essential, and staying updated with new trends is equally important. Today, let’s explore a powerful tool called Karpenter. Today, let’s explore what is Karpenter, why it’s gaining attention, and how it works behi...
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