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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Monday November 10, 2025 @07:01AM (#45875109)
I’m working on Alaska, a serverless compute platform I built entirely from scratch — no Kubernetes, no existing orchestration layers. It can spin up dozens of containers in parallel in just a few seconds. The platform is designed around a fast feedback loop — you write code locally, test instantly, and run it remotely with minimal friction. There’s a Python SDK that uses decorators to define what runs on the platform, so your local functions become distributed services without extra boilerplate. I also built a custom filesystem using FUSE to handle code, data, and runtime synchronization cleanly across nodes. It started as a personal exploration of distributed systems, but it’s grown into something that feels genuinely exciting! It's created by a developer for developers. Planning to open it up for beta testing soon.
Re:ClickHouse Keeper: A ZooKeeper alternative written in C++ on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @02:28PM (#37679037)
I'm always impressed by the quality of the blog posts coming out from clickhouse.com! Super well written!
Redis I would say, by Salvatore Sanfilippo (https://github.com/antirez)
Re:Ask HN: How do you organize a platform team? on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @10:12AM (#32824516)
Thanks for sharing the link and your advices. I've never thought about squads as they are explained in the website.
Re:Ask HN: How do you organize a platform team? on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @09:50AM (#32824267)
Makes sense -- Knowledge Base is something I should definitely tackle. Thanks :)
Re:Ask HN: How do you organize a platform team? on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @09:19AM (#32823881)
Thanks for the tips! I appreciate them :)

I've been noodling for a while regarding Kanban. Where do you see the main advantages in using it?

Re:Ask HN: How do you organize a platform team? on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @09:16AM (#32823852)
Thanks for the tips. I do appreciate them :)

`Don't let them get bogged down or pinged constantly. Try to make that request flow async.` - This is very true yet so hard. Slack is not helping at all with this issue. I will check with the team about office hours or maybe a triaging system to minimize the Support effort.

Ask HN: How do you organize a platform team?

I am a new manager of a large team (12 SREs) that are taking care of the Kubernetes platform in my company. This team is responsible for the provisioning pipelines (for both baremetal and AWS - no EKS is used), the Kubernetes controllers to integrate with other custom services, the observability stack, etc. The total fleet in use is around 6000 baremetal nodes and 1000 VMs in AWS spread over...

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