Reliability Notes

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Field notes on SRE, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and the occasional incident post-mortem.

28 Mar 2026

Migrating from Ingress NGINX to the Gateway API with kgateway

Ingress NGINX was going away, so we compared Ingress and the Gateway API, load-tested three controllers, and moved four environments to kgateway.

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15 Sept 2025

How we cut $50k/year off our AWS bill with EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter

Four EKS clusters on fixed node groups and Classic Load Balancers, and how we moved them to EKS Auto Mode with zero service disruption.

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