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Why we teach Kubernetes before Helm — and why it matters
Helm hides too many footguns until you've felt them yourself. Here's the order we walk students through, and the bugs they hit first.
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Helm hides too many footguns until you've felt them yourself. Here's the order we walk students through, and the bugs they hit first.
A practical framework for picking the right approach for production LLM systems, with the trade-offs we've seen in our own capstone deployments.
Auth, RLS, and a real billing flow — all wired before the second cohort meet-up. The exact sequence we use.