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No official Storm Helm chart — how we put Apache Storm on EKS anyway

The Argo CD app for Storm had been red for two days, but the symptom that actually sent me down the rabbit hole was quieter than a crash loop: init containers on the Supervisor pods, stuck forever…

  • Team created local Apache Storm Helm chart due to lack of official chart
  • Encountered storage issue with gp3 StorageClass not existing
  • Resolved by using legacy gp2 StorageClass for PVCs

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Recently, our team worked on a highly complex solution with very demanding performance requirements. After several brainstorming sessions, we discovered that the key wasn't a new framework or…

  • Engineers found solution in basics: bitsets, graphs, DFS
  • Brainstorming sessions led to fundamentally different approach
  • AI coding agents benefit from fundamentals, not just automation

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