CatOps Digest 2026-06-13
What was on CatOps in the last couple of weeks...
Charity
My friends raise funds for the Armed Forces of Ukraine since the beginning of the full scale invasion. Here’s a page with all their requisites and current fundraisers. Or, if it’s easier for you, you can just use this Monobank Jar.
Digest
Kubernetes Gateway API - a great article that explains in details a relatively new Kubernetes Gateway API, as well as the motivation behind it.
The radical network redesign that led AWS to forge a more resilient cloud - a story how Amazon used graph theory to optimize their vast networks.
How Do You Fit a Trillion-Parameter Model Into a Kubernetes Cluster? - interesting insights on the shift of perspective when running models in Kubernetes. A single replica of a model can be a distributed system in its own right, which adds extra layers of complexity when allocating those model replicas in a cluster.
Backend for frontend (BFF) pattern— why do you need to know it? - an explainer article for a popular “backend for frontend” design pattern.
How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go? - by default your Go applications are compiled to support amd64 processors from all generations. Yet, it’s very unlikely you actually use decade-old CPUs. This article examines, what performance boost you could get by compiling your apps with newer microarchitectures. Still, in the real world, your biggest bottleneck is likely I/O, not CPU.
Small k8s tools that saved me time debugging boring problems - a thread on Reddit, where people share useful Kubernetes utilities and
kubectlplugins.
This is all for today folks! Please, let me know in the comments, how could I improve these digests? Would you like to see them more often with fewer links in that case, or more often but denser? Would you like to see more detailed descriptions for each article or smaller descriptions are better? I would love to hear back from you! Let me know your thoughts in the comments or via info@catops.dev!
