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Cloud & DevOps
8 articles on cloud & devops.
Kubernetes for Developers: The 20% You Actually Need
You can be productive on Kubernetes without learning all of it. The handful of objects and commands that cover almost everything, and when not to use k8s at all.
Blue-Green and Canary Deployments: Shipping Without Fear
A deploy that can't be rolled back instantly is a deploy you're afraid to make. Blue-green, canary, and the automated rollback setup that removes the fear.
GitOps with Argo CD: Declarative Deployments Done Right
GitOps makes your cluster match git, automatically, and tells you when it drifts. How Argo CD works, why pull beats push, and how to roll back with a git revert.
A Production Node.js Dockerfile That Is Not 1.2GB
Most Node Dockerfiles ship a gigabyte of junk and rebuild everything on a one-line change. Here is a lean, fast, secure multi-stage build I actually use.
Cloud Cost Optimization: Where the Money Actually Goes
Cloud bills balloon in predictable places. A pragmatic FinOps guide to finding the waste, idle compute, egress, NAT, zombie resources, without crippling the team.
GitHub Actions Patterns That Save Your Team Hours
CI that is slow, flaky, or insecure taxes every PR. Here are the GitHub Actions patterns I use for fast, cacheable, least-privilege pipelines.
Observability for Developers: Logs, Metrics, and Traces
You can't fix what you can't see. A developer's guide to structured logs, the metrics that matter, and distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry.
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform: A Pragmatic Start
Click-ops doesn't scale and doesn't review. A pragmatic introduction to Terraform, state, modules, and the gotchas that bite teams adopting IaC.