I have noticed that many engineers who run Kubernetes in production have never actually watched it heal itself. They know it does. They have read the docs. But they have never seen a ReplicaSet controller fire, an OOMKill from kubectl describe, or watched pod endpoints go empty during a cascading failure. That’s where 3 am […]
Daily Archives: March 7, 2026
There’s a perception problem with Docker Compose. Ask a room full of platform engineers what they think of it, and you’ll hear some version of: “It’s great for local dev, but we use Kubernetes for real work.” I get it. I held that same opinion for years. Compose was the thing I used to spin […]
Today Quincy Larson interviews Justin Searls. He’s a software engineer who cofounded a software agency 15 years ago that’s still going – even after he figured out how to make a lot of money quickly and retire at age 38 once he had enough savings. These days he’s gone from solving problems for client to […]
Vibe coding is about momentum. You open your editor, prompt an AI, stitch pieces together, and suddenly you have something that works. Maybe it’s messy. Maybe the architecture is not perfect. But it’s live and working, and that’s the point. Then comes deployment. This is where the vibe usually dies. Suddenly, you’re reading about containers, […]
Whenever engineers are building AI-powered applications, use of sensitive data is always a top priority. You don’t want to send users’ data to an external API that you don’t control. For me, this happened when I was building FinanceGPT, which is my personal open-source project that helps me with my finances. This application lets you […]