AWS Step Functions: Orchestrating Complex Workflows
I deleted roughly 2,000 lines of orchestration code from our payment processing service last year. Replaced it with about 200 lines of Amazon States …
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Terraform Testing: Unit, Integration, and End-to-End
Most Terraform code has zero tests. That’s insane for something managing production infrastructure. We wouldn’t ship application code …
Read Article →Distributed Tracing with OpenTelemetry: A Complete Guide
I spent four hours on a Tuesday night debugging a 30-second API call. Four hours. The call touched 12 services — auth, inventory, pricing, three …
Read Article →Container Security Scanning in CI/CD Pipelines
If you’re not scanning container images before they hit production, it’s only a matter of time before something ugly shows up in your …
Read Article →AWS EventBridge: Building Event-Driven Architectures
EventBridge is the most underused AWS service. I’ll die on that hill. Teams will build these elaborate Rube Goldberg machines out of SNS topics, …
Read Article →Kubernetes Operators: Building Custom Controllers in Go
Operator SDK vs kubebuilder — I pick kubebuilder every time. Operator SDK wraps kubebuilder anyway, adds a layer of abstraction that mostly just gets …
Read Article →AWS CDK vs Terraform: A Practical Comparison in 2026
I use both. Terraform for multi-cloud, CDK when it’s pure AWS and the team knows TypeScript. That’s the short answer. But the long answer …
Read Article →Platform Engineering: Building an Internal Developer Platform
Platform engineering is DevOps done right. Or maybe it’s DevOps with a product mindset. Either way, it’s the recognition that telling …
Read Article →Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaling with Custom Metrics
CPU-based autoscaling is a lie for most web services. There, I said it.
I spent a painful week last year watching an HPA scale our API pods from 3 to …
Read Article →Implementing Zero-Trust Networking on AWS
VPNs are not zero trust. Stop calling them that.
I can’t count how many times I’ve sat in architecture reviews where someone points at a …
Read Article →AWS Cost Optimization: 15 Techniques That Actually Work
I got a call from a startup founder last year. “Our AWS bill just hit $47,000 and we have twelve engineers.” They’d been running for …
Read Article →Kubernetes RBAC Deep Dive: Securing Multi-Tenant Clusters
I’m going to say something that’ll upset people: if your developers have cluster-admin access in production, you’re running on …
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