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Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering vs DevOps: Where the Line Really Sits

DevOps changed how we work; platform engineering changes what we build. A practical look at how internal developer platforms operationalize DevOps principles at scale.

12 May 20268 min read

Reliability Engineering

Designing SLOs That Survive Contact With Production

28 Apr 202610 min read

DevOps

GitOps With ArgoCD: Patterns That Hold Up in Production

15 Apr 20269 min read

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Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering vs DevOps: Where the Line Really Sits

DevOps changed how we work; platform engineering changes what we build. A practical look at how internal developer platforms operationalize DevOps principles at scale.

12 May 20268 min read

Reliability Engineering

Designing SLOs That Survive Contact With Production

Most SLOs are written once and forgotten. Here is how to define service level objectives that map to real user experience and actually drive engineering decisions.

28 Apr 202610 min read

DevOps

GitOps With ArgoCD: Patterns That Hold Up in Production

App-of-apps, progressive delivery, and drift detection — the GitOps patterns we reach for when reliability and auditability are non-negotiable.

15 Apr 20269 min read

Cloud Architecture

Multi-Cloud Without the Regret

Multi-cloud is a strategy, not a default. A framework for deciding when portability is worth the complexity — and how to architect for it deliberately.

30 Mar 20267 min read

Kubernetes

Right-Sizing Kubernetes: Stop Paying for Idle

Requests, limits, autoscaling, and bin-packing. A pragmatic guide to cutting Kubernetes cost without sacrificing reliability.

18 Mar 202611 min read

Cloud Migration

The 6 Rs of Cloud Migration, Revisited

Rehost, replatform, refactor — and the decisions that actually determine migration success. Lessons from modernizing regulated, legacy estates.

22 Feb 20268 min read

Platform Engineering

Golden Paths, Not Golden Cages

The best internal platforms make the right thing the easy thing — without trapping teams. How to design paved roads engineers actually want to use.

8 Feb 20266 min read

Reliability Engineering

Observability: The Three Pillars and What Comes Next

Metrics, logs, and traces are table stakes. OpenTelemetry, high-cardinality data, and the shift toward truly queryable systems.

25 Jan 20269 min read

DevOps

Terraform at Scale: Modules, State, and Sanity

As Infrastructure as Code grows, structure matters more than syntax. Patterns for module design, state isolation, and safe collaboration.

10 Jan 202610 min read

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