production engineering
real-world cloud, devops, kubernetes, platform security, and incident management lessons from enterprise environments.
Production Incidents
Real-world outage analysis and troubleshooting stories from production systems.
Kafka Outage
PVC Recovery
Lessons learned from persistent volume claim recovery in stateful workloads.
Kubernetes compromise
Lessons learned from Kubernetes failure in Production.
CI/CD failures
Debug CICD Failures
Surviving a Kafka production outage on Kubernetes with practical recovery steps.
DevSecOps
Security automation and vulnerability management in modern CI/CD platforms.
SonarQube Pipelines
Static code analysis and quality gate enforcement for secure development workflows.
OWASP ZAP
Runtime API and application security testing for identifying vulnerabilities before release.
Snyk Integration
Automated SAST and dependency vulnerability scanning integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
Minimal Docker Images
Reducing container attack surface using lightweight and hardened base images.
Kubernetes & Platform Engineering
Scalable Kubernetes operations, infrastructure automation, observability, and cloud-native platform engineering practices.
EKS Security
Implement RBAC, IAM, and network policies for secure clusters.
Stateful Workloads
Infrastructure provisioning, reusable modules, and secure cloud automation using Terraform.
Observability
Set up logging, metrics, and alerting for full visibility.
Terraform Automation
Manage Kafka, PVCs, and distributed systems reliably.
Platform Security
Secure-by-default cloud architecture with strict access and policy controls.
IAM Governance
Enforce least privilege and precise access control.
Secrets Management
Safeguard credentials and tokens securely.
Policy-as-Code
Automate security enforcement through code.
Latest Notes
Fresh engineering insights from production.
Kafka Outage
How we survived a Kafka outage on Kubernetes.
Docker Security
Reducing container vulnerabilities with minimal images.
DevSecOps
Implementing security in CI/CD pipelines.
Engineering
Insights from production engineering notes.