Practical perspectives on enterprise software development, infrastructure automation, and cloud engineering from our project experience.
Kong is the flexible self-hosted option. AWS API Gateway is zero-ops if you're on Lambda. Apigee is enterprise API management. Here's how to pick based on your traffic, team, and complexity needs.
PostgreSQL breaks above a few hundred connections. PgBouncer fixes this for free if you run it yourself. RDS Proxy fixes it with AWS managing everything. Here's when each makes sense.
DevOps is a cultural practice. Platform engineering is a team structure that productizes that practice. Here's how they relate, where the line is, and why the distinction matters for engineering leaders.
Most teams set SLOs and never enforce them. Here's how to define meaningful targets, calculate error budgets, build alerting that fires at the right time, and make SLOs drive actual engineering decisions.
Most teams track DORA metrics and stop there. Here's how to interpret what the numbers are telling you, where the leverage is, and what to change when your scores don't move.
GKE is the most mature. EKS gives you the most AWS integration. AKS is the most operator-friendly. A direct comparison of managed Kubernetes across AWS, GCP, and Azure for teams that need to choose.
Step Functions locks you into AWS and charges per state transition. Temporal runs anywhere and handles failures differently. A direct comparison for teams choosing a workflow orchestration platform.
Tailscale is built on WireGuard—but that's like saying a car is built on an engine. WireGuard is a protocol you configure yourself; Tailscale is a mesh VPN that handles the hard parts for you.
Jenkins is free until it isn't. GitHub Actions is convenient until you hit the cost wall. Harness solves deployment—not builds. A direct comparison for teams choosing a CI/CD platform.
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