Everything written on this website is written 100% by me - no AI. But everything written here is also 100% my opinion, and does not reflect that of my employer or friends or whatever. This is a controversial and somewhat more "political" blogpost than my previous ones, though I am…
I'll preface this by saying that I don't know how to name things. So I'll just call this The Cluster for this blogpost. This project is basically a Kubernetes cluster which spans the entirety of the island of Mauritius. I gave a fun presentation on the v1 of this project…
I have several parts to my Kubecon experience this year round. For starters, I made it to Rejekts this year, which hadn't been possible in Paris. And most importantly, my talk, which hadn't been accepted to the main KubeCon lineup, had been accepted for Rejekts! So this was also going…
I made it to KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe yet again this year, making it my second KubeCon ever! I had attended last year, in 2024, though that trip had been financed by my parents on the occasion of my A-level results. On the other hand, this year, everything was paid for…
Until recently, I did databases in a controversial manner - a MySQL pod in a deployment (not even a statefulset) with a PVC. It is simple. And it works. But it's not the Cloud Native Way. So, as I was installing Immich, which specifically asked for a postgres database, I…