Postmortem: How Not Knowing OPA 0.70 and Kyverno 1.12 Cost Me a DevSecOps Role at Stripe I’ve been a DevSecOps engineer for 6 years, with a focus on cloud native policy enforcement using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Kyverno. When I landed an interview for a senior DevSecOps role at Stripe earlier this year, I was confident: I had years of experience writing Rego policies, deploying Kyverno Cluste
When you have 5 unrelated questions, should you pack them into one message to the LLM, or send 5 requests simultaneously? Which is faster? Splitting into multiple independent parallel requests is almost always faster. This isn't a gut feeling — it's determined by the underlying inference mechanism of LLMs. Let's walk through the reasoning from first principles. To understand this problem, you firs