Why I stopped using ElastiCache for dev and test environments
ElastiCache is a good product. For a production cache that has to survive everything, it's still what I'd reach for. But most of the Redis clusters I...
September 24, 20267 min read
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Kubernetes Health Probes: Liveness, Readiness, and Startup Explained
A visual guide to Kubernetes health probes — why process status is not application health, how liveness, readiness, and startup probes work, and how t...
February 19, 20269 min read
The Translation Layer: Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud
A deep dive into the Hetzner Cloud Controller Manager — how it bridges Kubernetes abstractions to Hetzner infrastructure, its modular controller archi...
February 19, 20269 min read
Kubernetes Controllers: Deployment, StatefulSet, and ReplicaSet Explained
A visual deep dive into Kubernetes controller patterns — how the reconciliation loop works, when to use Deployment vs StatefulSet vs ReplicaSet, and a...
February 18, 20267 min read
Serverless MikroTik Monitoring with SNMP and AWS CloudWatch
Monitor MikroTik routers (and any SNMP device) in AWS CloudWatch using a fully serverless Terraform module — no Zabbix, no Nagios, no dedicated monito...
February 17, 20265 min read
YAML-Driven CloudWatch Alarms with Terraform: Meet GeniusCloudWatchAlarm
Stop writing repetitive aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm blocks. This Terraform module lets you define all your CloudWatch alarms in a single YAML file — w...
February 17, 20269 min read