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The cache that couldn't cache
A homelab node pinned its memory and my portfolio pod climbed to 20 GB of RAM in a day. My first thought was an attack. It wasn't — it was two of my own caches failing silently, and normal traffic doing the rest. A war story about telling a leak from a breach.
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Why Kubernetes is called K8s, and what the Greek means
K8s is a numeronym — K, eight letters, s. Kubernetes itself is the ancient Greek κυβερνήτης, the helmsman of a ship. The seven-spoked logo is a Star Trek easter egg. The thing it names is the third generation of Google's internal scheduler.
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