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Resource Leaks in Serverless Compute: A Hidden Operational Nightmare
A deep look at the hidden impact of resource leaks in serverless (serverless) compute platforms on operational costs, and how to fight back…
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State Management in the Cloud: An SRE's Lost Battles
Explore the challenges of state management in cloud environments and the battles fought in this space, told from an SRE's perspective.
Technology
The Virtual Network Gateway Performance Mystery: A Hidden…
We investigate the overlooked performance bottlenecks of virtual network gateways in production. This article covers why they matter, the hidden problems…
Career
The Hidden Trap of Auto-Scaling: A Capacity Engineer's…
Learn about the unexpected challenges of auto-scaling and how, as a capacity engineer, you can avoid these traps.
Career
Hidden API Gateway Limits: Unexpected Bottlenecks in Production
How do hidden API Gateway limits cause unexpected issues in production? In this article, we explore strategies and practical solutions to prevent these.
Life
Panic Management with Chaos Engineering in Cloud Architecture…
How Chaos Engineering helps with panic management when unexpected issues hit cloud architectures, and how to handle the production-side earthquakes…
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Pet and Cattle Models in Cloud Architecture: The Scaling Dilemma
Learn the 'Pet' and 'Cattle' models in cloud architecture, the scaling challenges, and modern approaches with Mustafa Erbay's perspective.
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Unscalable Cloud Architecture: An Outage Story
A real outage story driven by unscalable cloud architecture, and the lessons we can take away from it.
Technology
Database Provisioning Mistakes in the Cloud and How to Fix Them
A deep look at database provisioning mistakes I keep running into on cloud platforms, the symptoms they cause, and the fixes that actually hold up in…
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Operational Crises I Have Faced Running GitOps for Cloud…
The operational crises I keep running into when I manage cloud infrastructure with GitOps — and the patterns that have helped me avoid the worst of them.
Technology
The Terraform Plan Mystery: Automation That Deletes the Wrong Resource
Take a deep look at Terraform plan's surprise resource deletions and the strategies for protecting your automation pipelines from these kinds of failures.
Technology
Outage Day in Cloud Architecture: A Real DNS Failover War Story
A real war story about an outage day in cloud architecture and why DNS failover strategies matter.
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Cloud Database Replication: Strategies for High Availability
Learn database replication strategies in cloud environments. Best methods for high availability, data security, and performance gains.
Technology
Cloud Cost Optimization: A Real-World Case Study and Success…
Get to know cloud cost optimization through a real-world case study and successful strategies. In-depth notes from Mustafa Erbay.
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Segmentation and Governance with Transit Gateway in Hybrid Cloud
A practical architecture guide that handles hub-spoke and Transit Gateway design together with security, route control, and operational observability.
Technology
Regional Integration Cells in ERP Infrastructures
Explores the regional cell approach for ERP integrations to manage data sovereignty, latency, and blast radius.
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Break-Glass Access Vault Architecture in Enterprise Cloud
An architectural approach to managing privileged emergency access not through always-on permissions but via an auditable, short-lived control plane.
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An Active-Active Integration Corridor for ERP Infrastructures
An architectural approach focused on resilience and consistency that runs the integration layer active-active without straining the ERP core.
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A FinOps Guardrail Layer for the Enterprise Cloud
An architectural approach that bounds cloud cost from the start with policy, tagging, and lifecycle rules instead of reporting on it after the fact.
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A Quarantine Account for the Management Plane in Enterprise Cloud
Architectural guide covering the quarantine account approach and its boundaries when isolating management services from production resources in a cloud…
Tutorials
A Guide to Tenant-Based State Separation with OpenTofu
A practical guide to splitting OpenTofu state in order to preserve tenant, environment, and ownership boundaries in enterprise infrastructure.
Technology
SLO-Based Capacity Reservation in Enterprise Cloud
A cloud architecture approach that ties capacity decisions to service objectives rather than average utilization alone.
Technology
Shared-Service VPC Decision Matrix in Enterprise Cloud
An architectural framework that explains when consolidating DNS, egress, security and observability services into a single VPC is the right call.
Technology
Certificate Lifecycle Architecture on Enterprise Platforms
An architectural approach that turns TLS certificates from a file-renewal chore into a first-class enterprise platform component.
Technology
A Telemetry Control Plane for Enterprise Observability
An architecture that manages telemetry cost and security through a central decision layer instead of scattered agents and pipelines.
Technology
Control Plane Decoupling Strategy in Enterprise Platforms
An architectural approach that separates the control plane from the product lifecycle as platform teams scale shared services.
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Long-Term Metric Retention with Grafana Mimir
A practical guide to designing long-term metric retention in multi-tenant environments without hitting the Prometheus bottleneck.
Technology
Designing the Shared Identity Boundary in the Enterprise Cloud
A shared design approach that simplifies identity, authorization, and operational boundaries in multi-account cloud setups.
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Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
A practical guide to state management, module design, drift control, and a safe promotion flow when building IaC with Terraform.
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Microservice Architecture with Kubernetes
A practical guide that addresses service boundaries, traffic management, SLOs, and platform responsibilities together when designing microservices on…
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Centralized Egress Design in Enterprise Networks
Principles for collecting enterprise outbound internet traffic into a visible, auditable, and scalable egress layer.
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Golden Path Design in Enterprise Platforms
An architectural framework for the golden path approach so platform teams can deliver speed and standardization together.
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Policy-Based Security at the Enterprise API Gateway
An enterprise approach that centralizes identity, rate-limit, and data-protection policies at the API gateway layer.
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Designing Self-Service Infrastructure with Platform Engineering
A guide to designing, at enterprise scale, a self-service platform approach that takes infrastructure teams out of the bottleneck role.
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Multi-Environment Promotion Pipeline with GitOps
A practical, GitOps-based guide for building a controlled promotion flow across development, test, and production environments.
Tutorials
Publishing Internal Services and Automating TLS with Traefik
A Traefik-based guide for safely publishing internal services and automating the certificate lifecycle.
Technology
Designing a Landing Zone in the Hybrid Cloud
A landing zone approach for getting network, security, and governance right from day one in enterprise cloud migrations.
Technology
Cost-Aware Design on a Kubernetes Platform
Practical principles for a Kubernetes platform architecture that scales on the cloud while keeping budget discipline.
Technology
Zero Trust Architecture on Enterprise Networks
How to build a Zero Trust approach across enterprise networks through identity, segmentation and observability layers.