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The OSI Model in the Cluster and the Cloud: Who Sees What When You Open a Page
L3, L4 and L7 are shorthand for how deeply a piece of infrastructure looks into traffic. One request, from clicking "Pay" to the payments pod, layer by layer.
Introduction to Service Mesh: Why Istio and Linkerd Exist
Service mesh appeared because, in a microservice system, traffic, identity, and observability problems started repeating in every service.
- Gateway API Without the Magic4/4
Migrating from ingress-nginx to Gateway API
Migrating from ingress-nginx is not mechanical YAML translation. First, separate the application contract from controller-specific behavior.
- Gateway API Without the Magic3/4
GatewayClass: A Contract With the Implementation
GatewayClass is not an environment label. It is where Kubernetes Gateway API meets a specific controller.
- Gateway API Without the Magic2/4
Gateway Does Not Always Mean the Same Thing
The word gateway mixes a product, a network role, and a Kubernetes API. Without that split, it is easy to compare things from different layers.
- Gateway API Without the Magic1/4
From Service to Gateway API: Where the Problem Came From
Ingress did not fail because it was bad. It failed because its small specification had no language for production HTTP behavior.
- series · 4 parts
Gateway API Without the Magic
A short entry point to a series about where Gateway API came from, how it differs from Ingress, and how to approach an ingress-nginx migration.
- Frontend Rendering: from server-side pages to hybrid rendering3/17
SPA and CSR: when the browser took over the application
The browser downloads the document once and manages screen transitions itself. The frontend stops being a presentation layer and becomes a long-lived runtime.
- Frontend Rendering: from server-side pages to hybrid rendering1/17
Server-rendered web: before the frontend became an application
The server assembled a full document for every request and the browser was a document renderer. A simple model, as long as the whole document could be the unit…