Cartographing Kittens: giving AI coding agents a map before a keyboard
Most AI coding agent demos fail in the same way: the task is too clean.
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// fresh from the scratching postPostgreSQL on Kubernetes: From StatefulSets to Operator-Managed Database Platforms
PostgreSQL has been the backbone of most projects I've delivered over the last decade. When someone needs real transactions, a solid SQL interface, and room to grow with extensions, Postgres is the database I reach for. Kubernetes, meanwhile, has become t…
read postOne waiter, every table: what actually blocks your FastAPI event loop
A single time.sleep(2) in one handler stalls every request on that worker. Not just the slow endpoint — the health check, the login route, the 10 ms lookups. All of them, for the full two seconds. Most FastAPI tutorials show you async def, show you await,…
read postThe 20% of Kubernetes that keeps production upright at 2am
kubectl api-resources on a stock cluster lists about sixty kinds of object. In the middle of a production incident, I have needed maybe eight of them. The other fifty are why Kubernetes has a reputation for being unlearnable — and why learning it from a c…
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