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Autoscaling GitHub Actions Runners on Kubernetes with ARC

DevOps

July 20269 min read

Autoscaling GitHub Actions Runners on Kubernetes with ARC

How I autoscale ephemeral GitHub Actions runners on Kubernetes with ARC — queue-driven scaling, scale-to-zero, dind vs kubernetes mode, and the settings that actually control cost.

Migrating to Grafana Alloy from Promtail and Agent

DevOps

July 20269 min read

Migrating to Grafana Alloy from Promtail and Agent

Promtail and Grafana Agent are both dead — here is how I moved a real Docker logging pipeline to Grafana Alloy, its OpenTelemetry Collector components, and the config syntax that replaces YAML.

Hono: One API Codebase for Workers, Bun, and Node

Backend

July 20269 min read

Hono: One API Codebase for Workers, Bun, and Node

How Hono lets me write one Web-Standards API and run it unchanged on Cloudflare Workers, Bun, and Node — plus typed RPC with zero codegen.

The Idempotent Consumer Pattern for Message Queues

Backend

July 20269 min read

The Idempotent Consumer Pattern for Message Queues

Your broker delivers at-least-once, so duplicates are guaranteed. Here is how a processed-messages table turns that into exactly-once effects.

Incus/LXC System Containers vs Docker Application Containers

DevOps

July 20269 min read

Incus/LXC System Containers vs Docker Application Containers

System containers give you a persistent, full-OS Linux box that shares the host kernel. Here is when Incus/LXC beats both Docker and a VM, with a comparison table and real commands.

Kubernetes Gateway API vs Ingress: Why It Replaces Annotations

DevOps

July 20269 min read

Kubernetes Gateway API vs Ingress: Why It Replaces Annotations

Ingress crammed the load balancer and routing rules into one annotation-heavy resource. The Gateway API splits them into role-oriented pieces, GatewayClass, Gateway, and HTTPRoute, and it is now the recommended path after ingress-nginx reached end of life.

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