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#15 will shock you! If you're familiar with kubernetes, you're likely familiar with the kubernetes API and the concept of controllers: reconciliation loops that look at the data stored in the api and try to make the state of the cluster match that declared API state. This is a pretty powerful model that has proven its value over time - but despite the seeming simplicity of the core ideas, there are plenty of details that may be surprising once you scratch the surface.
2021-06-18
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Macaroons, like Fezzes, are cool. If you find yourself disagreeing, it’s possible you’re thinking of the wrong sort of macaroons , or you’ve yet to be convinced. This is the first in a series of posts in which I intend to explain why macaroons are so interesting. We’ll start by motivating them and defining them, and later expand on the theory behind them and study examples of how they’re applicable in the real world. The name “macaroon” comes from the Google research paper that introduced them, a play on the ubiquitous browser “cookie.
2015-09-27
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