TL;DR: Load balancing ≠ Reliability. Emotional impact of system failures. It's the system's fault, not the individual's. Reliability is availability and trust. Key strategies for system reliability. Cautious use of AI in operations. Evolution ...
Istio, Kubernetes, and WireMock? Yup! It's a powerful combination! Recap In my previous blog https://marinow.hashnode.dev/how-to-not-stub-your-toe-in-production, we discussed ideas on how you can combine the power of Istio and WireMock Stub functiona...
Application testing from the Network and Platform Engineering lens I’ve hit a stub, what did I do…right?! Coming from a networking engineering background, it’s always challenging to understand the behaviours of applications and how they’re expected t...
Just a few months ago, the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate Exam (KCNA) was launched. After some thought, I figured I’d give it a shot. I took the exam and passed! This exam was released after the CKA, CKAD, and CKS (all hands-on exams) but is m...
Let’s talk about connectivity… Over the last several years, we’ve seen the rise of cloud-native patterns, which map to running microservices in the form of containers. Those containers are likely to be run on a ubiquitous and widely known platform, K...
Previously on……Marino’s first blog post… I covered the majority of what my homelab looks like. It has 3 physical ESXi hosts providing virtualization, a network, and NFS storage. One thing I called out was my desire to leverage Kubernetes to create an...
I’m sure there are many blogs about home labs and set ups. They all pretty much look the same except, each one has a base-level set up and a set of deviations. My setup is almost the same but, where my deviations come in are tied to what I’m attempti...
