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Twelve characters on screen, thirty in the string. Every translation Tolgee renders carries its own key, encoded in Unicode characters that take up no space and that you will never see. Here is how the encoding works, and what it cost us.

Some maintenance is easy to postpone, and a Kubernetes upgrade is a common example — until the running version goes out of support. By the time we started, our production Azure AKS cluster could only move in a single jump from Kubernetes 1.27 to 1.33, six minor versions at once. This post covers why the delay made the work larger and riskier, the problems we hit during the upgrade, and what running a supported Kubernetes version means for the people who use Tolgee.