12 posts tagged with "platform-engineering"

Every once in a while, some new product comes along that solves a problem you didn't know you had, and does it so well that after you've had it, you can't imagine how you ever lived without it.

This is how I've come to feel about Karpenter. I guess you could say that the category it lives in already existed, given it's designed to replace the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler, but the effect it's had on my life as an EKS cluster operator and platform engineer makes me feel like the comparison cheapens it.

Most mornings, after pulling myself out of bed, I put some semblance of a breakfast together. While eating, I usually take in the news (via the Android app of a traditional newspaper). I timebox this to about 10 minutes, which fits my breakfast-eating pace, and balances my desire to be an educated, responsible citizen with my tolerance for the existential dread I'm going to feel after reading about US politics.

Once I'm sufficiently fed/educated/terrified, I head over to the couch, where the dog joins me for a cuddle while I sip my coffee. At this point, I usually switch over to Hacker News. I've found that Hacker News is a pretty reliable purveyor of articles on topics that overlap my interests. I also appreciate that it gives me an nudge to get outside my go-to subjects, into pretty niche topics in tech, science, math, culture, philosophy (and interesting people who recently died) - all with a taint of delightful nerdiness.