Lessons from adopting Mimir's ingest-storage architecture: Kafka partition design, ingester placement, backfill storms, and safe scale-in.
July 25, 2026DevOps engineer at Channel.io, based in South Korea. Interested in Computer Networks, Cloud Native, and Homelab-ing. More about me →
Recent posts
- What I wish I knew before introducing Kafka to Grafana Mimir
- Istio Part 3-4: Detecting 507 Status Codes and istiod Disconnections
An Ambient mode troubleshooting appendix covering two Istio and Envoy issues encountered in production.
July 13, 2026 - Istio Part 3-3: Safely Upgrading Ambient Mode
A runbook for upgrading Istio Ambient mode.
July 8, 2026 - Istio Part 3-2: Partially Enrolled Pods and the Untaint Controller
Ambient mode troubleshooting: when Pods are scheduled before istio-cni is ready on a node.
July 2, 2026 - Istio Part 3-1: 503 and Half-open Connections
Ambient mode troubleshooting: 503 errors caused by Envoy reusing stale connections.
June 26, 2026