Karpenter

Spot Instances and Preemptible VMs: How to Cut Cloud Compute Costs by 70-90% Without Getting Burned

A principal cloud architect's guide to AWS Spot, GCP Spot VMs, and Azure Spot: how the spot market works, interruption handling patterns, instance diversity strategies, and which workloads actually belong on interruptible compute.

Apr 20, 2025

DevOps

Karpenter: The Node Provisioner That Finally Makes Kubernetes Autoscaling Worth It

Karpenter replaces the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler with a faster, smarter node provisioner that cuts costs and response time. Here's how it works and why it matters.

Apr 16, 2025

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