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Quentin Machu

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Quentin Machu's personal blog at blog.quentin-machu.fr covers systems and programming. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Debugging 5 – 15s DNS lookups on Kubernetes”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2018–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its Kubernetes and networking posts, including one on a 5-15s DNS lookup bug at scale and one on the author's move away from WeaveNet as a CNI.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Quentin Machu - An early container security and Kubernetes operator engineer who tumbled headfirst down the rabbit hole of running infrastructure for a crypto exchange.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Debugging 5 – 15s DNS lookups on Kubernetes
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way https://github.com/kubernetes/kops Be aware of this bug at scale ... its interesting https://blog.quentin-machu.fr/2018/06/24/5-15s-dns-lookups-o...

    Comment linking /2018/06/24/5-15s-dns-lookups-on-kubernetes/

    on “Kubernetes for personal projects? No thanks”
  2. Submitted The moment Container Linux was updated and almost broke our fleet as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Kinda surprised anyone would still using WeaveNet as a CNI.. it was a bit of a dumpster fire: https://blog.quentin-machu.fr/2020/08/07/our-breakup-with-we...

    Comment linking /2020/08/07/our-breakup-with-weave-net/

    on “Weaveworks is shutting down”
  4. Submitted Debugging 5 – 15s DNS lookups on Kubernetes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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