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Greg Bray

@a-z.dev

Customer Engineer at Google Cloud Formerly: SRE at Reddit, Walmart Labs, and Stack Overflow http://a-z.dev/story - He/Him - SLC, Utah Also at https://hachyderm.io/@GBrayUT

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The Google Fi data-only eSIM works on Pixel and some other phones as well. Worked great for using an old phone as a backup when traveling.

26.12.2025 21:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How we built a 130,000-node GKE cluster | Google Cloud Blog Learn about the architectural innovations we used to build a 130,000-node Kubernetes cluster, and the trends driving demand for these environments.

The Kubernetes dick measuring between GCP and AWS will continue until they boil the oceans or find an actual use case

cloud.google.com/blog/product...

23.11.2025 01:15 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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From the RedditEng community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the RedditEng community

www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/...

18.11.2025 16:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gemini CLI's Hidden Superpower: Custom System Prompts Customize Gemini CLI behavior with custom system prompts using a simple environment variable. Tutorial + ready-made agents from Pirate to Shakespeare.

jduncan.io/blog/2025-11...

13.11.2025 17:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Z does amazing work and you should absolutely commission them! He did a fantastic job on some art I'm putting in an upcoming conference talk.

02.10.2025 02:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GKE: service to service zonal affinity when crossing the cluster boundary. Since Topology Aware Routing only works within the bounds of the cluster, we explore a new option in GKE to achieve zonal affinity.

GKE: service to service zonal affinity when crossing the cluster boundary
medium.com/google-cloud...

23.09.2025 03:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I said I 3d printed a potato, and here's the prototype version. Definitely needs a redo with a smaller nozzle, probably a different base color filament, different support setup, etc. But it sure works for a prototype.

23.09.2025 02:36 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Are you a developer wanting a chance at winning up to $50,000 in prizes? πŸ’°

The GKE Turns 10 Hackathon submissions are open until September 22. There is still plenty of time to participate!

✍️ Details & submissions: gketurns10.devpost.com

Looking forward to seeing what you build! πŸ—οΈ

03.09.2025 16:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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PwrTool 500 A 500 A, 60 V power and battery monitor for Home Assistant

πŸ“’ Excited! The PwrTool 500 - an open-source power and battery monitor for Home Assistant, is now live on @crowdsupply! #ElecrowPCB #PartnerSeller

Back it now for the early bird price! πŸ‘‡
www.crowdsupply.com/voidbox-indu...

28.08.2025 09:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GKE Cost Cuttingβ€Šβ€”β€ŠThree Key Lookout Points to view your Potential Savings Many organizations rely on platforms like Kubernetes to efficiently manage workloads. However, uncontrolled resource consumption, idle…

GKE Cost Cutting β€” Three Key Lookout Points to view your Potential Savings by Olive Power #kubernetes

medium.com/google-cloud...

12.08.2025 12:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We're thrilled to have Adam Bernot (@bernot.dev), Software Engineer for Google Cloud, presenting "Autoscaling Workloads Effectively in Kubernetes" at #AllThingsOpen! 2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/aut...

05.08.2025 18:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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From the RedditEng community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the RedditEng community

Neat solution using schedulingGates to create progressive rollouts of new DaemonSets 🀩 Prevents overloading the #kubernetes control plane which previously caused a major outage at Reddit
www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/...

05.08.2025 15:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Neat project cloudlab.us

listen to the full episode at fafo.fm/21

17.07.2025 00:22 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Implementing High-Performance LLM Serving on GKE: An Inference Gateway Walkthrough | Google Cloud Blog Discover how to serve high-performance LLMs on GKE using the new Inference Gateway. This guide walks you through deploying models like Gemma with intelligent load balancing, AI-aware autoscaling, and…

What if the best practices for high-performance inference, like intelligent load balancing, smart autoscaling, and workload prioritization, were baked into your serving platform?

That's the promise of GKE's Inference Gateway.

Ready to try it out? πŸ‘‰ goo.gle/3GMm4N3

16.07.2025 17:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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GKE features to optimize resource allocation | Google Cloud Blog Learn about the GKE scheduler and the factors that can influence its workload placement decisions when there are capacity constraints.

GKE workload scheduling: Strategies for when resources get tight
cloud.google.com/blog/product...

26.06.2025 17:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ok I had to do it, tag urselves

14.06.2025 16:06 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 14
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Made an insert for a Zippo that holds 2 Yubikeys. If you print one let me know how it fits and which printer you used.

Files are available on printables:
www.printables.com/model/128385...

03.05.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 4
The Next Generation of DaemonSet Autoscaling - Adam Bernot & Bryan Boreham
The Next Generation of DaemonSet Autoscaling - Adam Bernot & Bryan Boreham YouTube video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]

My #KubeCon talk with @bboreham.bsky.social is up!

youtu.be/yQQU8vDhj0o

17.04.2025 03:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—£οΈ John Howard, Senior Software Engineer at Solo.io, explains the complexities of implementing Mutual TLS (mTLS) in Kubernetes

Watch it here: https://ku.bz/sk-ZF1PG9

🌟 Learnk8s
πŸŽ™ πŸŽ™Bart

04.03.2025 10:34 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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RADDLE The daily word transformation game

Announcing RADDLE, my new word transformation game.

raddle.quest

It’s a twist on conventional word ladders β€” instead of changing one letter at each step, you’re changing the entire word based on a clue. But it’s up to you to determine which clue to use.

06.03.2025 18:36 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 29
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We Were Wrong About GPUs Do my tears surprise you? Strong CEOs also cry.

Really love that @fly.io shared what they learned about shipping GPU machines

"GPUs aren’t going anywhere, but: GPUs aren’t going anywhere."

fly.io/blog/wrong-a...

15.02.2025 16:29 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Man, being the second flying facial hair commercial of the Super Bowl must be so
embarrassing…

10.02.2025 01:02 πŸ‘ 13081 πŸ” 522 πŸ’¬ 179 πŸ“Œ 26
Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos | Part 1
Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos | Part 1 YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

New video! Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos: youtu.be/YdOXS_9_P4U

08.02.2025 13:46 πŸ‘ 442 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 24
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Published a blog about common mistakes beginners make developing Kubernetes controllers (especially using controller-runtime) and how to write scalable and production-grade controllers. ahmet.im/blog/control...

22.01.2025 22:22 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
Kro Explained | Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator | Simplify K8s APIs
Kro Explained | Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator | Simplify K8s APIs

Kro Explained | Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator | Simplify K8s APIs #kro #eks #kubernetes

07.12.2024 17:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - GoogleCloudPlatform/khi: A transformative log viewer for Kubernetes A transformative log viewer for Kubernetes. Contribute to GoogleCloudPlatform/khi development by creating an account on GitHub.

Google just open sourced the Kubernetes History Inspector!

Use KHI to drive your MTTR down to zero!

It’s pretty cool to be able to visualize how your K8s objects change over time. Makes it super easy to figure out what went wrong, when, and what client made the change.
github.com/GoogleCloudP...

29.01.2025 20:49 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Unseen Catalyst: A Simple Rollout Caused a Kubernetes Outage

Another great write-up from r/RedditEng about a cascading failure across multiple Kubernetes clusters

www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/...

29.01.2025 21:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Build multi-architecture images for Arm workloads Β |Β  Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Β |Β  Google Cloud Learn about multi-architecture (multi-arch) images, why they are useful for deploying Arm workloads to GKE clusters, how to check a container image for Arm readiness, and how to build a multi-arch ima...

Should just need the docker context and build commands like mentioned herer cloud.google.com/kubernetes-e...

22.01.2025 00:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Top 10 ways to monitor Linux in the console | Jeff Geerling

There were a bunch of interesting commands in www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/to... that I didn't know about.

19.01.2025 18:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four
STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand
DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty

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