ArgoCD Sharding, Reconciliation Tuning, and the 1,000-App Wall
What actually breaks when ArgoCD grows past hundreds of Applications: controller sharding, reconciliation tuning, repo-server memory, and the metrics to watch.
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5 posts about platform-engineering in the conndeck blog — field notes on local-first Kubernetes operations, GitOps, and production debugging.
EKS vs AKS vs GKE at Scale: The Differences That Show Up in Production
An opinionated EKS vs AKS vs GKE comparison for teams running 10+ production clusters: pricing, forced upgrades, quota friction, and multi-cluster tooling.
Read the postGitOps Is a Discipline, Not a Tool
Installing ArgoCD doesn't make you a GitOps shop. Here's why the tool changes nothing until the team agrees to stop running kubectl apply from their laptops.
Read the postGKE Autopilot Internals: What Google Actually Runs for You
How GKE Autopilot actually works under the abstraction: per-pod billing vs node provisioning, compute classes, upgrade mechanics, and where it quietly costs 2x.
Read the postInside the Kubernetes Scheduler: Why Your Pods Land Where They Do
A deep dive into kube-scheduler internals: filtering vs scoring, topology spread math, PriorityClass preemption, scheduler profiles, and why the descheduler exists.
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