Cloud Architecture
API Gateways Explained: Kong, AWS API Gateway, and How to Choose
What an API gateway actually does, the architectural tradeoffs between managed and self-hosted options, and hard lessons from running gateways at production scale.
Microservices
Networking
Service Mesh Explained: Istio, Linkerd, and Microservice Networking
How service meshes handle the networking complexity of microservices: traffic management, mTLS, observability, and when you actually need one.
DevOps
OpenTelemetry and Distributed Tracing: Making Sense of Microservice Chaos
How OpenTelemetry works, why distributed tracing is different from logging and metrics, and how to instrument your services without drowning in overhead and noise.
Cloud Architecture
What Does Cloud Native Really Mean? Containers, Microservices, and Beyond
A veteran architect explains what cloud native actually means beyond the buzzwords, covering containers, microservices, CI/CD, and the architectural principles that matter.