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Two failures wear the same face: builds that rebuild everything every time, and builds that hand you a stale image. Both trace back to how layer caching keys work.
Git says it can't find a repo where you're standing. Nine times out of ten it's the wrong directory, a missing .git, or an ownership check.
One bundles your whole toolchain, the other lets you build anything from parts. The right pick depends on how much glue you want to own.
Git refuses to switch branches or pull because uncommitted edits are in the way. Here's how to move them safely, and when it's fine to throw them out.
Terraform's declarative HCL and Pulumi's real programming languages solve the same problem in very different ways, and the right pick depends on your team.
Every crash loop leaves a number behind. Learn to read exit codes straight from kubectl describe and know the fix before you open the logs.
The container starts, then dies with "exec format error." Here's why the CPU architecture is wrong, how to confirm it, and how to build images that just run.
Datadog's bill has a way of tripling the quarter you actually start using it. Here are eight alternatives we've run in production and what each one costs you.
Your Datadog bill didn't spike because you monitored more. It spiked because containers, custom metrics, and log volume all bill on axes you never think about.
A pod stuck in CreateContainerConfigError means kubelet can't build the container config, almost always a ConfigMap or Secret reference that doesn't line up.
Your push bounces because the remote moved on without you. Here is how to catch up cleanly, when to rebase versus merge, and when a force-push is actually safe.
Exit 137 usually means the kernel shot your container for eating too much memory. Here's how to confirm the OOM kill and stop it happening again.
