March 13, 2026
In the past month I shipped three integration apps to my home cluster: a Spanish translator that replies in audio, a health tracking bot I can query from any room in my house, and a camera alert system that decides for itself what’s worth telling me about. Each one took under an hour to have running. None of them required me to write a single line of application code.
February 24, 2026
Keip is a Kubernetes operator for Enterprise Integration Patterns. Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf documented these patterns in 2003: content-based routers, message transformers, splitters, aggregators, dead letter channels. Spring Integration has implemented them for years, but deploying Spring Integration on Kubernetes has always been harder than it should be. Keip fixes that. It turns integration routes into native Kubernetes resources, and I use it to run an LLM-powered media analysis pipeline on my home cluster.