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Made by Mikal
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Made by Mikal is a personal blog at madebymikal.com about programming and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on the largest known Kubernetes cluster, to a post on on-demand container loading. The comment cites it for AWS working around early Kubernetes issues at scale.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
It seems there were some major issues, but AWS has developed around them and optimised for its needs; ( https://www.madebymikal.com/on-demand-container-loading-in-a... ) Fair, but far from a common advice I’m willing to tell people (other CTOs) to do.
Comment linking /on-demand-container-loading-in-aws-lambda/
on “Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster”Submitted Interpreting whiteout files in Docker image layers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is the Spotify Model for Agile? as a story · 2 points
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