Practical articles on AI, DevOps, Cloud, Linux, and infrastructure engineering.
Create your first S3 bucket, upload and download files, and set up the right access controls — without accidentally making everything public.
Write, package, and deploy a Lambda function using only the AWS CLI. Trigger it via a public URL. Understand what serverless actually means.
Install Ansible, write your first playbook, and configure a remote server (nginx + a deploy user) without touching it manually. The basics that scale up.
We use feature flags on roughly every customer-facing change. The provider tradeoff, the patterns that hold up, and the failure modes that show up only after a couple of years.
How we run OpenTelemetry across ~40 services. The instrumentation that earns its place, the patterns we abandoned, and what tracing actually catches that metrics don't.
A 2 AM incident, the autovacuum settings that caused it, and the parameter changes that prevented the next one. The discipline that took our biggest Postgres host from periodic stalls to steady.