Steven Sklar | My Blog

A Whole New World Lately I've been using agents and SOTA models for all of my software development work.

As the old adage goes, "when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

Lately, I've started to see more and more evidence that businesses are entering something of a "SaaS Hangover".

I've had the good fortune of building several large-scale software systems completely from scratch over the course of my career.

It always begins with a PagerDuty alert...

Originally published on the QuestDB Blog It was a little over a year and a half into my tenure as a cloud engineer at QuestDB when I started my first Pull Request to the core database.

The Kubernetes standard library is full of gems, hidden away in many of the various subpackages that are part of the ecosystem.

By default, operators built using Kubebuilder and controller-runtime process a single reconcile request at a time.

Check out Part 1 of this series for an introduction to Kubernetes operators.

If you work with persistent storage in Kubernetes, maybe you've seen articles about how to migrate from in-tree to CSI volumes, but aren't sure what all the fuss is about?

If you've used Kubernetes in just about any capacity over the past few years, you've almost certainly leaned on at least one operator to automate a piece of your infrastructure.

I recently purchased a used Lenovo M900 Think Centre (i7 with 32GB RAM) from eBay to expand my mini-homelab, which was just a single Synology DS218+ plugged into my ISP's router (yuck!).

Kubernetes operators seem to be everywhere these days.

As you hopefully know from reading some of my recent articles, I really enjoy writing Kubernetes operators!

This is a short article with a little k8s persistent storage nugget that I recently uncovered.

It seems that annotations are everywhere in the Kubernetes (k8s) ecosystem.

A few weeks ago, Kelsey Hightower wrote a tweet and held a live discussion on Twitter about whether it's a good idea or not to run a database on Kubernetes.

Recently, I've been spending a lot of time writing a Kubernetes operator using the go operator-sdk, which is built on top of the Kubebuilder framework.

Originally posted on the QuestDB Blog Introduction One of my favorite things about QuestDB is the ability to write queries in SQL against a high-performance time series database.

Thanks to a weekly Rust workshop hosted by one of my colleagues at QuestDB, along with some extra time spent in an airport lounge during a long layover, I was finally able to hack together some Rust that does something useful!

My Fractal FM3 Setup I'm a longtime bass and guitar player who has lived in apartments for the better part of 15 years.

Originally posted on the QuestDB Blog Monitoring QuestDB in Kubernetes As any experienced infrastructure operator will tell you, monitoring and observability tools are critical for supporting production cloud services.

Error handling in Go One of Rob Pike's famous Go Proverbs is that "Errors are values".

How to dynamically add nodes to a kind cluster Kind allows you to run a Kubernetes cluster inside Docker.

Why nim?