A message broker from FIFOs and awk: four scenarios, two passes, two failures

A message broker from FIFOs and awk First post in a series on KMQ, a homelab message broker built from Unix primitives on Kubernetes. This one documents the original all-FIFO pipeline and four scenarios executed against it. Two passed cleanly. Two failed in ways that motivated the next iteration, written up in post 02 . A separate aside covers the private OCI registry and pull-through cache that…