kafka9 min read
Kafka Consumer Patterns — At-Least-Once, Exactly-Once, and Everything in Between
Master consumer groups, offset management, exactly-once semantics, dead-letter queues, and consumer lag monitoring for production Kafka.
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keda7 min read
KEDA — Event-Driven Autoscaling for Kubernetes Workloads
Scale Kubernetes workloads based on queue depth, Kafka lag, cron schedules, and custom metrics. Master KEDA architecture, combine with HPA, and optimize for cold starts and production reliability.
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backend7 min read
Killing a Project After Six Months — The Engineering Case for Letting Go
Six months in. $800k spent. The project isn't working. Sunk cost bias says keep going. The business case for stopping is clear. Making the engineering argument to kill a project — and knowing when you're right — is one of the hardest senior skills.
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backend8 min read
Knowing When Architecture Is Overkill — The Senior Engineer's Restraint Problem
The senior engineer proposes Kafka for the notification system. You have 500 users. The junior engineer proposes a direct function call. The senior engineer is technically correct and strategically wrong. Knowing when good architecture is overkill is the skill that separates senior from staff.
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kubernetes7 min read
Running LLM Workloads on Kubernetes — GPU Scheduling, vLLM, and Autoscaling
Deploy inference workloads on Kubernetes with vLLM, GPU scheduling, autoscaling, and spot instances for cost-effective large-language model serving.
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