Ilya Manyakin — Notes https://stolas.lol/en/notes/ https://stolas.lol/en/notes/ Writing on Python, Kubernetes and ML in production. en Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rollback matters more than a perfect deploy https://stolas.lol/en/notes/rollback-first/ https://stolas.lol/en/notes/rollback-first/ The perfect deploy happens once a year; every system falls over eventually. That is why the first scenario our CI tests is not the rollout but the rollback. Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Models live in production, not on a laptop https://stolas.lol/en/notes/model-lives-in-prod/ https://stolas.lol/en/notes/model-lives-in-prod/ A laptop with 97% accuracy and a service running the same checkpoint are two different models. What changes when inference moves into Kubernetes. Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The boring layer in front of the model https://stolas.lol/en/notes/boring-gateway/ https://stolas.lol/en/notes/boring-gateway/ Half of all "inference problems" are solved by an nginx in front of FastAPI: limits, timeouts, caching and honest 503s. Cheaper than scaling GPUs. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT