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Pod Startup Forensics: Closure and What's Next

By Bhawani Singh2026-08-2012 min read

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Pod Startup Forensics: Closure and What's Next

Closing the series: what six parts proved, the two scaling questions still untested, and the remaining exec-probe and production-kernel boundaries.

By Bhawani Singh2026-08-167 min read

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Pod Startup Forensics: Closing the Gap

Correlating socket syscalls and kubelet probe attempts into the merged timeline, then fixing a real cgroup-attribution bug that left most of those events unresolved.

Pod Startup Forensics: Surviving Deletion

By Bhawani Singh2026-08-155 min read

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Pod Startup Forensics: Surviving Deletion

How the profiler retains pod-startup evidence after deletion, verified by reconstructing a deleted three-pod Tekton PipelineRun with `--timeline`.

By Bhawani Singh2026-08-099 min read

Disk I/O QoS for Kubernetes with cgroup v2 io.weight

Implementing and validating node-local disk-I/O prioritization for Kubernetes Pods with cgroup v2 io.weight.

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Platform Engineer focused on CI/CD at scale.
Building scalable CI/CD systems with Tekton and AWS EKS.
Comfortable with Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, and Java, with occasional detours into whatever else a problem needs.
Writes Rust for fun — creator of dockstat, a build-log profiler.
Building an agent harness that runs local models inside Firecracker microVMs.
Cloud-native and container technology enthusiast.
Building tools that make developers’ lives easier.

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