Designing cloud platforms that make infrastructure reproducible, deployments predictable, and engineering teams more effective.
Three long-running series on building real platforms, from free-tier clouds to the homelab to GKE.
A production-style Kubernetes platform on the OCI free tier: GitOps, networking, observability and disaster recovery.
From messy beginnings to controlled chaos: Proxmox, k3s and GitOps on hardware at home.
A Terraform-first GKE platform with private nodes, GitOps, Kargo promotions and multi-cloud links.
My Brother ADS-1000W still works fine after more than ten years. The software around it didn't age as well, so I vibe-coded my own scanning app in Rust, then found a way around a problem with no driver to fix it: scanning from any phone in the house.
Moving public API traffic between two independent EKS ingress stacks: build the new edge first, issue TLS early, test through a parallel hostname, keep both backends live, and hand over Route53 record ownership without a gap.
A fresh, calmer interface for Job Winner—and the behind-the-scenes cleanup that made the app faster, friendlier, and much harder to break.
