Musings and Mutterings through the Machines

Eleven Links of Note - January 26th, 2026

Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee: Last week, I took a Lyft from Wheaton to the Chicago Loop. The driver came in a Tesla and he proceed to demonstrate the autopilot features. The car was in control about 99 percent of the drive. It was amazing. ¹

Simplify Kubernetes cluster management using ACK, kro and Amazon EKS: Yet another Kubernetes tool.

As Oracle loses interest in MySQL, devs mull future options: If I were to migrate away from MySQL, I would prefer to move to postgreSQL.

Replace your tech stack with open source alternatives: What the site says.

United Nations Declares That the World Has Entered an Era of ‘Global Water Bankruptcy’: To be clear, we are talking about fresh water, which we appear to hit a peak

Doom has been ported to an earbud: On one hand, this is amazing. On the other hand, there has to be a better app than a violent video game to see if you can run software on a particular device.

DPaint.js: Brings back memories of using an Amiga back in high school. I couldn't draw for crap, though.

Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes: Speaking of migrating to PostgreSQL. . .

Stretching a Layer 2 network over multiple KubeVirt clusters: commentary: layer 2 knowledge for any non-network engineer is an underrated skill.

Cilium on OKD: Beyond the Official Documentation: I need to poke with that. I am curious to see how it works on my clusters.

Project Copacetic: Directly patch container image vulnerabilities: Keep your images updated easily and quickly.

It was also somewhat reckless, given the issues with it, but at least I survived ↩︎

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The Boyfriend to Barbara pipeline is a tale as old as time
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Stateful workload operator: stateful systems on Kubernetes at LinkedIn: Scaling stateful systems on Kubernetes is hard, as LinkedIn found. This is how they did it.
Introducing Multiple Registry Support on DigitalOcean Container Registry …

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