Leaving Olark after nine yearsOriginally published at https://www.markbetz.net/2025/08/21/leaving-olark-after-nine-years/Aug 21Aug 21
Exhausting conntrack table space crippled our k8s clusterOriginally published at https://www.markbetz.net/2023/12/12/exhausting-conntrack-table-space-crippled-our-k8s-cluster/. Reposted here with…Dec 21, 2023Dec 21, 2023
So you want Windows to show 24-hour time?I spend a large part of every day shelled into cloud servers, viewing logs, checking alerts in slack channels, looking at pages on my…Sep 21, 2020A response icon2Sep 21, 2020A response icon2
The day a chat message blew up prodI don’t often write “in the trenches” stories about production issues, although I enjoy reading them. One of my favorite sources for that…Aug 28, 2020A response icon1Aug 28, 2020A response icon1
The cost of tailing logs in kubernetesLogging is one of those plumbing things that often gets attention only when it’s broken. That’s not necessarily a criticism. Nobody makes…Jul 10, 2020A response icon1Jul 10, 2020A response icon1
Behind the front lines of the pandemicI’m a software engineer and so I usually fill this space with software and systems engineering topics. It’s what I do and love, and I…Apr 17, 2020A response icon1Apr 17, 2020A response icon1
Pulling shared docker tags is badLast night we migrated a key service to a new environment. Everything went smoothly and we concluded the maintenance window early…Mar 6, 2020A response icon1Mar 6, 2020A response icon1
After my disk crashedA couple of years ago I lost all of what I would have considered, up to that point, my intellectual life, not to mention a lot of…Sep 2, 2019A response icon1Sep 2, 2019A response icon1
Why I’ve turned off private notesThis morning I disabled private notes on my stories, for a couple of reasons. Philosophically I just don’t like them. If we’re editing a…Aug 21, 2019Aug 21, 2019
Published inGoogle Cloud - CommunityUpgrading a large cluster on GKEAt Olark we’ve been running production workloads on kubernetes in GKE since early 2017. In the beginning our clusters were small and…May 26, 2019May 26, 2019
