AWS Architecture Guide: Production Patterns and Best Practices
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103 articles about devops development, tools, and best practices
Kubernetes Guide: From Basics to Production Operations
This is the hub for everything I’ve written about Kubernetes. Whether you’re setting up your first cluster or optimizing a multi-tenant …
Read Article →Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Management with Fleet and Rancher
I’ve been running Kubernetes in production for years now, and there’s a specific kind of pain that only hits you once you cross the …
Read Article →Implementing SLOs and Error Budgets in Practice
99.99% availability sounds great until you realize that’s 4 minutes and 19 seconds of downtime per month. Four minutes. That’s barely …
Read Article →Python Packaging in 2026: uv, Poetry, and the Modern Ecosystem
I mass-deleted requirements.txt files from a monorepo last month. Fourteen of them. Some had unpinned dependencies, some had pins from 2021, one had a …
Kubernetes Ingress Controllers: NGINX vs Traefik vs Istio Gateway
NGINX Ingress is the Honda Civic of ingress controllers. Boring, reliable, gets the job done. I’ve deployed it on dozens of clusters and …
Read Article →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 …
Read Article →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 …
Read Article →Terraform Modules: Design Patterns for Reusable Infrastructure
I once inherited a project with a single main.tf that was over 3,000 lines long. No modules. No abstractions. Just one enormous file that deployed an …
GitOps with ArgoCD: From Zero to Production
ArgoCD won the GitOps war. I’ll say it. Flux is fine—it works, it’s CNCF graduated, it has its fans—but ArgoCD’s UI alone makes it …
Read Article →Rust for Cloud Engineers: Why Systems Programming Matters
I started learning Rust as someone who’d spent years writing Python scripts and Go services for cloud infrastructure. My first reaction was …
Read Article →AWS ECS vs EKS: Choosing the Right Container Orchestrator in 2026
ECS is underrated. Most teams picking EKS don’t need it. I’ve been saying this for years, and I’ll keep saying it until the industry …
Read Article →Building Production-Ready Docker Images: A Multi-Stage Build Guide
I’ve shipped Docker images to production for years now, and the single biggest improvement I’ve made wasn’t some fancy orchestration …
Read Article →Kubernetes Network Policies: A Practical Security Guide
I’m going to be blunt here. If you’re running Kubernetes without network policies, every pod in your cluster can talk to every other pod. …
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