The Real Cost of Kubernetes: A FinOps Deep Dive

March 2024 FinOps

After implementing Kubernetes across 15+ regions, here's what organizations really spend and where the hidden costs lurk. We'll explore pod density optimization, persistent volume strategies, and the networking costs that can double your bill.

Kubernetes Cost Optimization FinOps

Global DNS at Scale: Handling 10 Billion Queries Daily

February 2024 Infrastructure

Building DNS infrastructure that scales globally while maintaining sub-10ms latency. From anycast routing to intelligent failover, the architectural decisions that matter when every millisecond counts.

DNS Global Scale Performance

Zero-Trust Security in Practice: Beyond the Buzzwords

January 2024 Security

Implementing zero-trust for a healthcare organization processing 1M+ patient records. The practical challenges of identity verification, network segmentation, and maintaining compliance while enabling developer productivity.

Zero-Trust Security HIPAA

Multi-Cloud Strategy: When and Why It Actually Makes Sense

December 2023 Cloud Strategy

The truth about multi-cloud: it's not always about avoiding vendor lock-in. Real-world scenarios where spanning AWS, GCP, and Azure delivered actual business value, and where it was just complexity for complexity's sake.

Multi-Cloud Strategy Architecture

Building Engineering Leaders: From IC to Technical Director

November 2023 Leadership

What it really takes to mentor senior engineers into leadership roles. The technical skills are just the starting point - here's how to develop the systems thinking and team dynamics that create great technical leaders.

Leadership Mentoring Career Development

GitOps at Enterprise Scale: Lessons from 200+ Microservices

October 2023 DevOps

GitOps works beautifully in demos, but what happens when you have 50+ teams deploying 200+ services? The organizational patterns, tooling decisions, and cultural shifts that make GitOps succeed at scale.

GitOps DevOps Microservices