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Meet Rich Burroughs

Hi, I’m Rich Burroughs, and I’ve just joined Loft Labs as a Senior Developer Advocate. I’m very excited to be here, and I’d like to share a bit about why I joined the team.

Apr 5, 2021  ·  3 min read

Kubernetes Probes: Startup, Liveness, Readiness

Kubernetes has been disruptive due to the scalability, velocity, portability, and observability it adds to cloud deployments. While it brings a whole ecosystem of great features and options and eases complex deployment, it also has its own challenges.

Feb 15, 2021  ·  7 min read

Kubernetes Startup Probes - Examples & Common Pitfalls

Kubernetes brought an excellent deployment platform to work on. Even monolithic applications can be run in a container. For some of these monolithic applications and for some microservices, a slow start is a problem.

Feb 9, 2021  ·  6 min read

Kubernetes Liveness Probes - Examples & Common Pitfalls

Kubernetes has disrupted traditional deployment methods and has become very popular. Although it is a great platform to deploy to, it brings complexity and challenges as well.

Feb 2, 2021  ·  7 min read

Kubernetes Readiness Probes - Examples & Common Pitfalls

Kubernetes is a great platform to deploy our microservices and applications to. One of the excellent features is that pods are restarted or removed from a service when they don’t work correctly.

Jan 11, 2021  ·  8 min read

Kubernetes CRDs = Huge Pain In Multi-Tenant Clusters

Kubernetes multi-tenancy provides a number of business and technical advantages over single-tenant clusters. However, multi-tenancy also brings several challenges and pain points with it, one of which is handling Kubernetes custom resource definitions (CRDs).

Dec 9, 2020  ·  9 min read