This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Part 2 (coming soon): Connecting to spoke clusters from a controller using multicluster-runtime, driven by ClusterProfile. The Cluster Inventory API (multicluster.x-k8s.io) is driven by SIG-Multicluster and centered on the ClusterProfile resource. It only delivers value when something produces those ClusterProfiles. That something is a cluster manager. Today, t
When developers travel, we usually prepare the obvious things. Laptop charger. But there is one dependency that is easy to underestimate until it breaks: mobile internet. A trip to China makes this especially obvious. Not because China is hard to travel in, but because so many basic interactions are mobile-first: navigation, translation, ride-hailing, hotel communication, ticket confirmations, pay
A backup job missed 24 days of runs. Nobody knew. The CronJob looked fine in kubectl get cronjobs. No alerts fired. The last successful run timestamp in the status field just sat there, quietly getting older. The root cause: the CronJob controller had silently given up scheduling after missing 100 runs. Logged an error. Stopped trying. Moved on. This article explains why Kubernetes CronJobs are st
The Hidden Cost of Calling AI Too Early I stopped calling AI on every request — and everything got better. In one of my projects, I was generating AI-based insights from user activity. The initial design was simple: Every request for today’s insight → call the AI model → return a fresh response. GET /api/insights/today At first, this felt clean and correct. But in practice, it created serious
We've been there. JSON Schema gets hard to write as soon as your payload is non-trivial. Conditional logic, cross-field rules, business invariants, and at some point we stop writing contracts at all. We go code-first, generate the schema from annotations, and end up with 200 lines very few understand, and error messages referencing paths like #/properties/items/allOf/0/then/Then that map to nothin
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Denver likes a good origin story. The city still keeps a marker for Louis Ballast and the Humpty Dumpty Barrel, the local spot tied to the cheeseburger's Colorado claim. That detail felt oddly right for SnowFROC 2026. A cheeseburger is a small upgrade that changes the whole meal. This year's conference kept returning to the same ideas in AppSec, such as how meaningful security progress often comes
You write a Dockerfile, run docker build, and get an image. But what’s really happening under the hood? Docker isn’t just “building” your app — it’s assembling a stack of immutable filesystem layers. Docker doesn’t build applications — it builds filesystem snapshots layer by layer. Let’s break it down. A Docker image is not a single file. stack of read-only layers. Every instruction in your Docker