THINGS I'VE LEARNED
THE HARD WAY.
Field notes, architecture post-mortems, and practical trade-offs from operating cloud platforms and AI systems in production.
Azure Container Apps: Designing for Scale-to-Zero in Production
A deep dive into cold-start mitigation, KEDA HTTP scaler tuning, and ingress routing when building cost-optimized microservices on ACA.
Terraform in Production: What Breaks at 400+ Resource Groups
Architectural strategies for state file partitioning, module version pinning, plan performance optimization, and blast radius containment.
Building Deterministic AI Workflows with MCP & Playwright
Bridging large language models with browser automation and local system tools using the Model Context Protocol without hallucinated executions.
The Production Kubernetes Readiness Checklist
Essential guardrails every AKS cluster needs before accepting production customer traffic: resource requests, PDBs, and network policies.
From Operator to Systems Builder: A Cloud Career Reflection
Why the future of DevOps belongs to engineers who write code, design platforms, and treat infrastructure as a software product.