Mofesola Babalola·Nov 4AI-Aware Traffic Management: Scaling Inference with Istio Ambient MeshHow to route LLM traffic by KV cache instead of by luck, what breaks when you put the model pods in ambient, and what I’m fixing upstream.
Mofesola Babalola·Oct 19A Smarter Router Wins the Median and Loses the TailI wanted to know whether an inference-aware router beats the default load balancer in front of a pool of LLM servers. On multi-turn chat…A response icon1A response icon1
Mofesola Babalola·Oct 6Retiring a Custom NGINX Edge Without a Big-Bang CutoverMoving north-south routing to an Istio Ingress Gateway one path at a time, with NGINX as the fallback until the last route is gone.
Mofesola Babalola·May 18Why We’re Retiring the Sidecar: Lessons from KubeCon 2026The “Sidecar Tax” was never just about money.A response icon1A response icon1
Mofesola Babalola·Dec 16, 2025Post-Mortem: The Day We Deadlocked KarpenterWe depend heavily on Karpenter. It’s lean, event-driven, and handles node rotation significantly better than the legacy Cluster Autoscaler…
Mofesola Babalola·Nov 17, 2025To Mesh, or Not to MeshA Sane Guide to Service-to-Service CommunicationA response icon1A response icon1
Mofesola Babalola·Oct 8, 2025Ditch the Gym This Winter: How I Get a Killer Workout in 20 Minutes From My Living RoomThe grey Berlin sky has a way of draining your motivation. As someone who works remotely, the line between my office (my desk) and my…A response icon1A response icon1
Mofesola Babalola·Sep 16, 2025My German Dream on Pause: Navigating Unemployment as an Immigrant in BerlinA raw, detailed account of being fired one month after relocating, battling a toxic PIP, and discovering the surprising resilience of an…A response icon32A response icon32
Mofesola Babalola·Sep 11, 2025An Engineer’s Blueprint for Germany: The Good, The Bad, and The PaperworkIn 2018, I made a decision that would redefine my life. I was a software engineer in Nigeria, deeply attached to my home — the culture…A response icon3A response icon3
