Kubernetes and AI have become unlikely bedfellows—and the numbers prove it. New data from CNCF and SlashData reveals that two-thirds of organizations running generative AI models have standardized on Kubernetes for orchestration. But here's the thing: it's not because Kubernetes magically solves AI problems. It's because the engineering fundamentals that make Kubernetes valuable—standardization, r
I needed to coordinate background scripts running across different machines. The obvious answer was Redis. Everyone uses Redis for this. The tutorials all use Redis. The Stack Overflow answers all say "just use Redis." So I looked at what deploying Redis would actually cost me: A running Redis server I had to maintain A broker to connect workers to it Celery or RQ on top of that Memory-based stora
How Cloudflare Built Resilience: Lessons from Their Infrastructure Overhaul When a single misconfiguration can cascade across a global CDN and take down customer traffic, every deployment becomes a high-stakes decision. Cloudflare recently completed a massive push to make their infrastructure fundamentally more resilient—and their approach offers critical lessons for anyone operating at scale. M