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15 September 20242 min read

How We Automated Cosmos Validator Onboarding with Helm

Onboarding a new Cosmos validator used to take days of manual YAML and key ceremony. Here's how we reduced it to a single Helm install, with Horcrux threshold signing built in from the start.

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10 June 20243 min read

Running ELK at 600GB/day — What We Learned

We ran a production ELK stack ingesting 600 GB of logs per day with ~300 hour MTBF. Here's what worked, what didn't, and what we'd do differently.

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22 March 20243 min read

cdk8s vs Terraform — A Real-World Comparison

I've used both tools in production. They solve overlapping problems differently. Here's when I reach for each, and where the lines blur.

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