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Kubernetes PriorityClass Isn't Enough: Pinning a Pod to AMD Nodes During an ARM Migration

Migrating from AMD to ARM (Graviton) nodes, we needed the frontend to stay on AMD. A PriorityClass alone wasn't enough — here's the full combination of nodeSelector, PriorityClass, and taints/tolerations that actually works.

Published: Jun 2026

AWS VPC IPAM: The Most Underrated Feature for Avoiding IP Address Chaos

Most teams track CIDRs in a spreadsheet until two VPCs overlap and peering breaks. Here's how Amazon VPC IPAM plans, tracks, and monitors your IPs across accounts and regions — and even trims your public IPv4 bill.

Published: Jun 2026

QPS Limit Exceeded on EKS Start-up: The Image Pull Thundering Herd

I scaled our dev EKS cluster to zero overnight to save cost. The first morning it came back, every pod pulled its image at once and the cluster threw a "QPS limit exceeded" error. Here's the root cause and the fix.

Published: Jun 2026

How I Cut AWS CloudWatch Costs by 50%

A real-world case study on reducing billing by moving VPC Flow Logs to S3 in Parquet format.

Published: Feb 2026

How DNS Works: A DevOps Perspective

Understanding the journey of a DNS query from your browser to the server. Essential knowledge for troubleshooting connectivity.

Published: Feb 2026