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2025
A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel
We recently ran across a strange higgs-bugson that manifested itself in a critical system that stores and distributes the firm’s trading activity data, called Gord. In this post I’ll walk you through the process I took to debug it. I tried to write down relevant details as they came up, so see if you can guess what the bug is while reading along.
2020
Kubernetes is a container orchestration system, but that's not the point.
You may have heard that Kubernetes is a 'container orchestration system'. This is true, but not particularly helpful! In this article I explore why and how Kubernetes is, instead of what. Maybe most surprisingly, I think containers are just an implementation detail of a principled system for declarative infrastructure.
