Production

Posts on what holds up and what breaks when Kubernetes runs production workloads, including VPA rollouts and the major cloud outages of 2025.

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Company • 2min read

David O'Dwyer to give talk at Container Days 2026

LiveWyer’s Director will be presenting ‘A Trilogy of Heroic Failures, in Four Parts’...

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Engineering • 13min read

A Retrospective of the Major Cloud Outages in 2025

A deepdive analysis into the global cloud disruption in October and November 2025. What really happened and how can you prevent future impact?...

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Engineering • 17min read

Advanced VPA implementation: Production patterns, ecosystem tools, and real-world configuration

Master advanced VPA configurations, ecosystem integration, and production patterns using proven implementations....

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Avatar Louise Champ Louise Champ
Engineering • 14min read

VPA production deployment: Avoiding pitfalls for safe and effective scaling

Master systematic VPA rollout strategies, workload coordination, and monitoring approaches for reliable production scaling....

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Avatar Louise Champ Louise Champ
Engineering • 12min read

VPA component deep dive: How Kubernetes Vertical Pod Autoscaler works

Understand the inner workings of VPA’s Recommender, Updater, and Admission Controller to configure reliable resource optimisation....

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Avatar Louise Champ Louise Champ
Engineering • 21min read

Understanding Kubernetes VPA: Why manual resource allocation is costing you thousands

Learn why Kubernetes Vertical Pod Autoscaler has become essential for modern workload optimisation and cost control....

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