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No, You Don't Need a Service Mesh
Service meshes like Istio or Linkerd promise advanced traffic management, mutual TLS, and observability for microservices. In reality, they add massive networking complexity, consume significant CPU and RAM, and make debugging network issues a nightmare. Keep your cluster networking simple.
Serverless is a Scam (and the Cloud Providers Know It)
Serverless computing promised to eliminate server management and lower costs by charging only for actual execution time. Instead, it delivered vendor lock-in, cold-start latency, database connection bottlenecks, and sky-high bills for consistent traffic workloads. A standard VPS remains the pragmatic choice.
Your Local Development Environment Should Not Run on Docker
Docker is an excellent tool for production deployments, but running your entire local development environment in containers is a productivity killer. It slows down tests, eats memory, complicates debugging, and isolates developers from the tools they need. Let's make local development native again.
Kubernetes is the Ultimate Developer Money Pit for Startups
Startups are adopting Kubernetes because Big Tech does. In doing so, they inherit massive complexity, exorbitant cloud bills, and dedicated infrastructure team requirements before they even have product-market fit. You probably just need a single VPS.
She Replaced Vibes With Metrics How One Team Cuts Hallucinations By Automating LLM Evaluations In Production
A team replaced vibe checks with automated LLM evaluation catching percent of hallucinations before deployment after a support assistant hallucinated policies to hundreds of users in production.