1+ hour, 47+ min ago   (1254+ words) How measuring Kubernetes node storage usage led to a simpler capacity decision in an Amazon EKS cluster. In Engineering Build Notes #1, I investigated what initially looked like an opportunity to reduce worker-node capacity. The nodes appeared to have more capacity…...

4+ hour, 8+ min ago   (595+ words) This runbook resolves the situation where an EC2 instance is running and visible in the console but either does not appear in the Systems Manager Fleet Manager inventory, or returns a connection error when you attempt to start a Session Manager…...

7+ hour, 3+ min ago   (457+ words) Most demos of AI-for-infrastructure tools show a clean run. I think that is exactly backwards, and I want to explain why by walking through the thirty seconds of my own demo that a normal product video would have cut. A…...

8+ hour, 22+ min ago   (373+ words) 1.True State Retention Without Complicated Databases Earlier, if you wanted your backend code to retain a simple piece of information from a past user action, you had to store that data in an external database, such as Amazon DynamoDB. For…...

11+ hour, 48+ min ago   (417+ words) For anyone passionate about digital sovereignty and homelabbing, setting up a private home server on a Single Board Computer (like a Raspberry Pi 5, Orange Pi) or a Proxmox home lab is one of the most rewarding engineering projects. However, anyone…...

16+ hour, 32+ min ago   (24+ words) I was interested in touching the surface of Kubernetes ecosystem of some sort, so I decided to touch... Tagged with cloudnative, programming, opensource, tutorial....

19+ hour, 2+ min ago   (330+ words) Neither wins universally, most production systems run containers on top of VMs, getting both layers. But the density/speed numbers explain why containers, not VMs, are the default unit for anything you want to scale or ship fast. The first…...

19+ hour, 50+ min ago   (594+ words) Terraform Remote State: A Consistency Boundary for Infrastructure Control Terraform state is not a cache that can be casually regenerated. It is the controller’s mapping between declarative addresses and real provider objects, including dependency metadata and sensitive attributes. Remote state…...

1+ day, 21+ min ago   (502+ words) Nginx TLS hardening usually gets attention at the worst possible moment: a pentest report flags missing security headers, or a compliance auditor asks why SSLv3 is still negotiable on a box nobody remembers deploying. The fix people reach for first is…...

1+ day, 20+ min ago   (1225+ words) Rehearse smart-contract recovery on pinned forks: test migration checkpoints, user entitlements and authority, then preserve a reviewable rollback manifest. Tagged with solidity, web3, testing, security....