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Ahmet Alp Balkan
ahmet.im · Personal blog · on HN since 2017
Ahmet Alp Balkan, a Google Cloud engineer, writes on Kubernetes, Knative, Cloud Run, containers, and Go.
What HN saysCommenters cite it for clear explanations of Cloud Run versus Knative and for a useful survey of minimal init processes for containers.
23HN people shared it
4linked it in comments
35stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?3 people · 247 points · first shared 2025 · 119 comments on HN
- 2Knative = Kubernetes Networking++2 people · 68 points · first shared 2019 · 14 comments on HN
- 3Did we market Knative wrong?2 people · 28 points · first shared 2021 · 10 comments on HN
- 4Is Google Cloud Run Really Knative?2 people · 12 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 5Go Json.Decoder Considered Harmful2 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 6Mastering the Kubeconfig File2 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 7Survey of container-optimized init process (PID 1) replacements2 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 8Skaffold: happy Kubernetes workflows2 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 9Building a high-scale chat server on Cloud Run1 people · 148 points · first shared 2021 · 111 comments on HN
- 10Show HN: Deploying to Cloud Run with Go1 people · 6 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 11Tale of a Kubernetes node-feature-discovery incident1 people · 4 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 12How Kubernetes Initializers work1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 13Kubernetes List API performance and reliability1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 14Gcloud run deploy: How does it work?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 15Global anycast IPs to route your users to the nearest Cloud Run app1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
alpb · 2022-04-07
https://ahmet.im/ It's a blog with static HTML (Hugo) hosted on a Google Cloud Storage bucket (3 cents/mo) with a Cloudflare CDN for caching/TLS termination. I'm not good at frontend tech so it's just text with bootstrap.css.
I have posts in my blog dated as back as 2005. I migrated from my own DIY blog CMS in VBScript (classic ASP) –there was no WordPress back in the day– which I migrated to WordPress, and finally settled on static HTML compiled from Markdown.
azundo · 2025-02-24
Looking through the submission history of that user yields https://ahmet.im/blog/index.html
apitman · 2024-09-16
I've also found this useful: https://ahmet.im/blog/minimal-init-process-for-containers/
And this looks really good: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems
harpratap · 2022-04-07
It's not managed KNative - https://ahmet.im/blog/cloud-run-is-a-knative/index.html
It's implementing KNative API but on GCP Infra