Practical articles on AI, DevOps, Cloud, Linux, and infrastructure engineering.
A real story of removing console-only changes, adding drift detection, and getting Terraform back in charge.
A focused look at the techniques that shrink container images: which actually pay off, which are folklore, and the discipline that keeps images small over time.
How a small team moved from single-region risk to a simple active/passive multi-region setup without doubling complexity.
We've had to restore a Kubernetes cluster from backup twice. Once it worked. Once it took 14 hours. Here's the strategy we run now.
We ran Istio for a year, then switched to Linkerd. Both can do the job. The decision came down to operational fit, not features.
We started with a single Celery worker handling everything. Eight months and three architecture changes later, here's what scaled and what we learned about queue design.
We cut our average CI build time from 28 minutes to 6 minutes. The changes that mattered, ranked by impact.
We migrated 40+ services to GitOps with Argo CD. Two years in, here's what works and what required workarounds.
How a packet actually gets from the internet to a pod, walked layer by layer. Plus the things that surprise people the first time they hit them.
