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Latency vs Throughput vs Bandwidth: The Three Numbers Everyone Confuses
A customer once asked me to double their bandwidth because the app felt slow. We did. Nothing changed. Here is the difference between latency, throughput, and bandwidth, explained with one simple analogy and the formula that ties them together.
Kubernetes Gateway API: from zero to hero
Ingress is feature-frozen and ingress-nginx is retired. Here is its successor end to end: four typed resources, the platform-vs-app split, canary, TLS, multi-team, and the mesh, built on one running shop.
Karpenter in production: right-sizing at scale
How Salesforce cut 70% of cluster cost with Karpenter — the 3 traps and the 4-step rollout at 1,000+ clusters.
Hello World: Launching vedmich.dev
Why I built a personal site and what to expect here — architecture notes, Kubernetes deep-dives, and lessons from building at scale.
MCP servers, plainly explained
What a Model Context Protocol server actually does — and the difference between AWS Knowledge MCP and AWS Documentation MCP.
Why I still write Kubernetes manifests by hand
Helm and Kustomize are great. Here's why I don't reach for them first.