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Palark
Company blog · blog.palark.comsystemsprogramming
Palark is the company blog at blog.palark.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Palark's posts on Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, such as a comparison of PostgreSQL Kubernetes operators. Most comments discuss the infrastructure topics rather than the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
DevOps blog with Kubernetes best practices, tutorials, troubleshooting guides. Expert insights on containers, security, automation.
What Hacker News says?
On AWS, at least, there are alternatives such as ECS and even plain old EC2 auto scaling groups. Teams can have the autonomy to run their infrastructure however they like (subject to whatever corporate policy and compliance regime requirements they might have to adhere to). Kubernetes is appealing to many, but it is not 100% frictionless. There are upgrades to manage, control plane limits, leaky abstractions, differ…
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2022/05/kubernetes-iceberg.png
on “Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret”Submitted Just-for-fun experiment: Deploying Kubernetes on two old laptops with Linux as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMore like, an attempt in the field from 2 years ago > [Warning] This project is currently not actively maintained. But there is a library by them to build containerd shims with which is maintained: https://github.com/containerd/runwasi Let's just entertain the idea and pretend that this is a notable project and that one would count it as DevOps tooling. Here are the top 10 across the CNCF in terms of size, courtesy…
Comment linking /cncf-sandbox-2024-h1/
on “Goenums: Type Safe Enum Generator for Go”Submitted Understanding and optimizing resource consumption in Prometheus as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA good comparison with other operators here [2022]: https://blog.palark.com/cloudnativepg-and-other-kubernetes-o... Personally I've only used Kubegres ( https://www.kubegres.io/ ), which didn't even make the above list. It's ok for a personal project. All k8s solutions for postgres take subtly different approaches. It seems that they've all converged on the Operator pattern. The basics are easy: run a database proce…
Comment linking /cloudnativepg-and-other-kubernetes-operators-for-postgresql/
on “Run PostgreSQL. The Kubernetes Way”Submitted Recent troubleshooting cases from our SREs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trying Coroot, an eBPF-based observability tool for Kubernetes and more as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Companies make millions on Open Source as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenAI-based open source tools for Kubernetes AIOps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes security basics and best practices. 5 steps to implement them as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating an application running in OpenShift to vanilla Kubernetes as a story · 1 points
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