DevOps
Troubleshooting Latency: A Systematic Approach to Finding the Bottleneck
A systematic method for tracking down latency issues in production systems, from network to application to database, built from decades of war stories.
Blog
Deep-dive technical articles on cloud architecture, networking, security, databases, and infrastructure. Written by practitioners who build and scale production systems.
DevOps
Performance Tuning Databases and Applications: A Practitioner's Guide
Hard-won performance tuning lessons from twenty years of fixing slow systems. Database optimization, application profiling, and the metrics that matter.
DevOps
Monitoring and Logging: What to Track, How to Alert, and Tools That Work
Practical monitoring and logging advice from twenty years of production operations. What metrics matter, how to build alerts that work, and tools I trust.
DevOps
Blue-Green Deployments: Zero-Downtime Releases Done Right
A battle-tested guide to blue-green deployments from an architect who's used them to eliminate downtime across hundreds of releases in production.
DevOps
CI/CD Explained: Continuous Integration and Delivery from the Ground Up
Learn CI/CD from someone who built pipelines before the tools existed. Continuous integration and delivery principles, patterns, and hard-won lessons.
DevOps
Kubernetes Autoscaling Deep Dive: HPA, VPA, KEDA, and Cluster Autoscaler Explained
A practical guide to Kubernetes autoscaling: how HPA, VPA, KEDA, and Cluster Autoscaler work, when to use each, and how to avoid the pitfalls that catch most teams.
Security
Encryption at Rest vs In Transit: A Complete Guide to Data Protection
Comprehensive guide to encryption at rest and in transit covering implementation, key management, TLS configuration, performance impact, and compliance requirements.
Databases
Stored Procedures: When to Use Them, When to Avoid Them
Opinionated guide to stored procedures covering performance benefits, maintainability costs, security implications, and practical guidelines for when they help vs hurt.
Databases
Snapshots vs Volumes: Understanding Cloud Storage Primitives
Practical guide to cloud storage snapshots and volumes covering architecture, performance, cost optimization, backup strategies, and disaster recovery patterns.
DevOps
Ephemeral Preview Environments: How to Give Every Pull Request Its Own Full-Stack Kubernetes Deployment
How to implement per-PR ephemeral preview environments on Kubernetes using ArgoCD ApplicationSets, Neon database branching, wildcard TLS, and automated cleanup — plus an honest look at managed platforms like Okteto and Bunnyshell.
Databases
Columnar vs Row Databases: Architecture, Performance, and Use Cases
In-depth comparison of columnar and row-oriented databases covering storage architecture, compression, query performance, and choosing the right one for your workload.
Cloud Architecture
LLM Quantization in Production: GGUF, AWQ, GPTQ, FP8, and Choosing the Right Model Format Before You Buy the Wrong GPUs
A practical guide to LLM quantization formats for production inference: when to use GGUF vs AWQ vs GPTQ vs FP8, VRAM arithmetic that actually works, and the infrastructure decisions that follow.