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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.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2019

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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.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. 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”
  2. Submitted Interpreting whiteout files in Docker image layers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted What Is the Spotify Model for Agile? as a story · 2 points

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