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Cloud & DevOps

8 articles on cloud & devops.

Cloud & DevOps·10 min read

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.

Cloud & DevOps·10 min read

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.

Cloud & DevOps·10 min read

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.

Cloud & DevOps·9 min read

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 & DevOps·9 min read

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.

Cloud & DevOps·10 min read

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.

Cloud & DevOps·8 min read

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.

Cloud & DevOps·10 min read

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.