Comparisons
Articles tagged Comparisons — notes and deep-dives grouped under this topic.
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Crossplane vs Terraform: a control plane instead of a state file
Terraform keeps a snapshot of state in a file and reconciles it on demand; Crossplane turns the Kubernetes API into a control plane and reconciles continuously. What version two changed, where continuous reconciliation wins and what it costs.
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A Staff Engineer Made of Sub-Agents: What I Adopt and What I Skip
The Senior Staff Engineer pattern for Claude Code, read by an engineer running his own four-role sub-agent teams: context isolation and the verification gate — yes; the 1% Rule and the Delete Rule — no.
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OpenTofu vs Terraform in 2026: when the fork is already worth it
The question is no longer whether the fork is safe, but when it beats the original. Features, lock-in, and migration cost in 2026.
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Cilium and eBPF: replacing kube-proxy and removing iptables from Kubernetes networking
Everyone sees eBPF as a speedup, but the real value is a decision rule: where replacing kube-proxy pays off, and where iptables still wins.
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Multi-cluster ArgoCD: hub-and-spoke vs per-cluster and where both need pull-mode
Hub-and-spoke is the default, but it breaks against blast radius, inbound networking and compliance. When to pick per-cluster local, when pull-mode, and what a hybrid without ideology looks like.
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A Local LLM for Coding: Not «Which» but «Where»
A review of the practical method for picking a local coding model by hardware — and where local models have a real niche while only the cloud holds the line on precision.
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An Obsidian Second Brain Is a Layer, Not the Agent's Whole Memory
Monteiro's zoned wiki is the right mechanism, but agent memory is a taxonomy of layers; and any layer that ingests the outside world must be scanned for injection before synthesis.