Building Hirak.devv
Designing a static-first publishing platform for technical writing — and treating information architecture, typography, accessibility and performance as one system.
- Platform Engineering
- Performance
- GitOps
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Things I've learned by building, testing and breaking systems.
No distinction between blog posts, notes, experiments or case studies here. Some posts are short explanations, some are deep technical investigations, and some contain benchmarks and raw data. They all document something I wanted to understand better.
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HPA vs KEDA Under Bursty Traffic
I load-tested two Kubernetes autoscaling approaches and measured how quickly each reacted as traffic moved from idle to sustained load.
- Kubernetes
- Autoscaling
- Performance
Docker Build Performance Across Different CPUs
How much does the underlying CPU actually matter when building container images?
- Docker
- Performance
Kubernetes Ingress Finally Made Sense When I Understood This
Ingress is much easier to understand when you stop treating it as a Kubernetes-specific concept.
- Kubernetes
- Networking
Building a GitOps Pipeline With Argo CD
From git push to a reconciled Kubernetes deployment.
- Kubernetes
- Platform Engineering
Measuring OpenTelemetry Overhead
An experiment measuring the application cost of increasingly aggressive tracing configurations.
- Observability
- Performance
Requests and Limits Are Not Just YAML
How Kubernetes uses resource requests and limits, and what happens when your assumptions are wrong.
- Kubernetes
- Platform Engineering
vLLM Under Concurrent Load
Exploring time-to-first-token, throughput, memory usage and latency as concurrent requests increase.
- AI Infrastructure
- Performance
From GPT-2 to AI agents: when answers stopped being enough
A personal reflection on GPT-2, chatbots, automation, and AI agents, through one broken app and the question of how much work we can hand over.
- AI
- AI agents
- AI infrastructure
AI + Deterministic Overlay: designing reliable hero images
A design for AI-assisted hero images that keeps typography, technical facts, and production builds under deterministic control.
- AI Infrastructure
- Platform Engineering
- Reliability
One week of optimizing my OpenCode workflow
How I turned token-hygiene conversations into OpenCode rules for focused discovery, smaller changes, and evidence-driven verification.
- AI Infrastructure
- Platform Engineering
- Performance
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