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