Kubai Kevin

8 articles tagged Containers

Distroless images: smaller attack surface

How to move runtime containers to distroless bases, measure the reduction in packages and CVEs, and keep scans blocking in CI.

13 min read · 2 November 2026

Agent API versioning: why clients break on upgrade

Why agent version upgrades break downstream clients, the contract drift behind the errors, and how to pin, check and roll out versions safely.

12 min read · 14 September 2026

Commit ownership in AI pair coding

AI pair coding shifts who is accountable for a commit. A practical contract: prompt hashing, test gates, ownership tags, and review discipline.

14 min read · 31 August 2026

WASM servers beat containers here

A practical guide to choosing WebAssembly over containers for short-lived, CPU-bound server tasks, with code, failure modes, and a measurement plan.

12 min read · 5 August 2026

CI/CD for Django in 20ms Africa networks

Design a Django CI/CD pipeline for 1-2 vCPU runners, slow links and metered egress: caching, image size, migrations and health checks.

13 min read · 3 July 2026

Claude Code after a year: daily wins

Design an agentic Dependabot patcher that bumps a dependency, runs tests in a container, and opens a PR only when the suite passes.

13 min read · 25 June 2026

A Solo-Project Deploy Pipeline That Stays Under $20/Month

Build a test-and-deploy pipeline with GitHub Actions and a container host, then measure cost, cold start, and rollback time yourself.

16 min read · 15 June 2026

Container Build Caching: What Actually Speeds Up CI

How container build caching works, why cache keys invalidate, and how to measure hit rate and cost before choosing a cache backend.

13 min read · 14 June 2026