Chris Burns

Software Engineer

Chris is a hybrid Site Reliability Engineer and Software Engineer, splitting his time equally between cloud infrastructure and core platform development. On the SRE side, he owns and operates Stacklok's cloud estate, with a focus on reliability, observability, and platform maturity, while building tooling and automation for deployment and monitoring. On the engineering side, he contributes to the Kubernetes runtime that enables MCP operations at scale. This dual role reflects his ability to bridge infrastructure and application development in the fast-evolving AI tooling ecosystem.

All Articles by Chris Burns

September 30, 2025

From black box to observable: Deploy ToolHive with OTel + Prometheus

Hands-on tutorial for deploying ToolHive with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana in Kubernetes. Transform black-box MCP servers into observable services.

September 25, 2025

Bridging the observability gap in MCP servers with ToolHive

ToolHive collects usage statistics from MCP servers and feeds data into OTel and Prometheus. Get full visibility with request metrics and distributed traces.

September 22, 2025

The next big observability gap for Kubernetes is MCP servers

MCP servers create blind spots in Kubernetes monitoring. They lack metrics endpoints, don’t log structured data, and can’t be traced by Prometheus or OpenTelemetry.

August 19, 2025

MCP server performance: Transport protocol matters

Load testing in Kubernetes reveals transport choice is the make-or-break decision for MCP performance and scaling.

June 10, 2025

ToolHive Operator: Multi-namespace support

Deploy ToolHive in cluster or namespace mode. Namespace mode provides least-privilege access, multi-tenancy support, and better compliance with security audits.

May 01, 2025

ToolHive Kubernetes Operator for MCP servers

Deploy MCP servers in Kubernetes using the ToolHive Operator. Streamline management with custom resources and automatic proxy configuration.

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