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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A deep look at the hidden impact of resource leaks in serverless (serverless) compute platforms on operational costs, and how to fight back…
Explore the challenges of state management in cloud environments and the battles fought in this space, told from an SRE's perspective.
We investigate the overlooked performance bottlenecks of virtual network gateways in production. This article covers why they matter, the hidden problems…
Learn about the unexpected challenges of auto-scaling and how, as a capacity engineer, you can avoid these traps.
How do hidden API Gateway limits cause unexpected issues in production? In this article, we explore strategies and practical solutions to prevent these.
How Chaos Engineering helps with panic management when unexpected issues hit cloud architectures, and how to handle the production-side earthquakes…
Learn the 'Pet' and 'Cattle' models in cloud architecture, the scaling challenges, and modern approaches with Mustafa Erbay's perspective.
A real outage story driven by unscalable cloud architecture, and the lessons we can take away from it.
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…
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.
Take a deep look at Terraform plan's surprise resource deletions and the strategies for protecting your automation pipelines from these kinds of failures.
A real war story about an outage day in cloud architecture and why DNS failover strategies matter.
Learn database replication strategies in cloud environments. Best methods for high availability, data security, and performance gains.
Get to know cloud cost optimization through a real-world case study and successful strategies. In-depth notes from Mustafa Erbay.
A practical architecture guide that handles hub-spoke and Transit Gateway design together with security, route control, and operational observability.
Explores the regional cell approach for ERP integrations to manage data sovereignty, latency, and blast radius.
An architectural approach to managing privileged emergency access not through always-on permissions but via an auditable, short-lived control plane.
An architectural approach focused on resilience and consistency that runs the integration layer active-active without straining the ERP core.
An architectural approach that bounds cloud cost from the start with policy, tagging, and lifecycle rules instead of reporting on it after the fact.
Architectural guide covering the quarantine account approach and its boundaries when isolating management services from production resources in a cloud…
A practical guide to splitting OpenTofu state in order to preserve tenant, environment, and ownership boundaries in enterprise infrastructure.
A cloud architecture approach that ties capacity decisions to service objectives rather than average utilization alone.
An architectural framework that explains when consolidating DNS, egress, security and observability services into a single VPC is the right call.
An architectural approach that turns TLS certificates from a file-renewal chore into a first-class enterprise platform component.
An architecture that manages telemetry cost and security through a central decision layer instead of scattered agents and pipelines.
An architectural approach that separates the control plane from the product lifecycle as platform teams scale shared services.
A practical guide to designing long-term metric retention in multi-tenant environments without hitting the Prometheus bottleneck.
A shared design approach that simplifies identity, authorization, and operational boundaries in multi-account cloud setups.
A practical guide to state management, module design, drift control, and a safe promotion flow when building IaC with Terraform.
A practical guide that addresses service boundaries, traffic management, SLOs, and platform responsibilities together when designing microservices on…
Principles for collecting enterprise outbound internet traffic into a visible, auditable, and scalable egress layer.
An architectural framework for the golden path approach so platform teams can deliver speed and standardization together.
An enterprise approach that centralizes identity, rate-limit, and data-protection policies at the API gateway layer.
A guide to designing, at enterprise scale, a self-service platform approach that takes infrastructure teams out of the bottleneck role.
A practical, GitOps-based guide for building a controlled promotion flow across development, test, and production environments.
A Traefik-based guide for safely publishing internal services and automating the certificate lifecycle.
A landing zone approach for getting network, security, and governance right from day one in enterprise cloud migrations.
Practical principles for a Kubernetes platform architecture that scales on the cloud while keeping budget discipline.
How to build a Zero Trust approach across enterprise networks through identity, segmentation and observability layers.