Engineering essays from the bench.
War stories, architecture decisions, and the occasional tirade. Written by the engineers who shipped it.
Platform Engineering: Building Internal Developer Platforms That Actually Get Adopted
A practical guide to platform engineering and building internal developer platforms. Covers golden paths, self-service infrastructure, Backstage, Crossplane, and measuring platform success.
Cloud IAM Best Practices Across AWS, Azure, and GCP: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide (Updated 2026)
Updated for 2026 - The definitive guide to cloud IAM across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Step-by-step implementation of least privilege, policy design, service accounts, federation, audit logging, and common misconfigurations to avoid.
Kubernetes vs Serverless: Choosing the Right Compute Strategy
Compare Kubernetes and serverless architectures across cost, scalability, operational overhead, and use cases to pick the right compute strategy for your workloads.
Docker and Containerization: The Complete Production Guide
Master Docker for production with best practices for Dockerfiles, multi-stage builds, image security, container networking, and orchestration decisions.
FinOps: Mastering Cloud Financial Management
A practical guide to FinOps covering the inform-optimize-operate lifecycle, tagging strategies, reserved capacity, anomaly detection, and organizational culture.
Scaling Startups on AWS: A Cost-Conscious Architecture Guide
How to build a cloud architecture on AWS that starts lean and scales gracefully - without burning through your runway.
Service Mesh with Istio: Observability, Security, and Traffic Management
A hands-on guide to Istio service mesh covering architecture, traffic management, mTLS security, observability with Kiali and Jaeger, and performance considerations.
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform: A Production Guide
Learn how to structure Terraform projects for production, manage state safely, write reusable modules, and implement CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure changes.
Multi-Cloud Strategy: When It Makes Sense and How to Do It Right
Explore when multi-cloud architecture delivers real value versus unnecessary complexity, and learn practical patterns for running workloads across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Cloud Cost Optimization: 10 Strategies That Actually Work
Reduce your cloud bill with 10 proven cost optimization strategies covering reserved instances, right-sizing, autoscaling, storage tiering, and more.
