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Practical articles on DevOps, infrastructure, and cloud engineering.
Boby's Garage: From a Colab Notebook to a 94% On-Device Car Classifier
The infrastructure and product story behind a fine-grained car classifier — Colab to RunPod, EfficientNet-V2-S at 94.24% on 655 generation-level classes, plate blur, on-device gating, and hierarchical inference.
Building Terraback: A CLI for Reverse-Engineering Live Cloud Infrastructure into Terraform
How I built Terraback — a local-first CLI that turns live AWS, Azure, and GCP infrastructure into clean, modular, importable Terraform that plans zero-diff.
ARGUS: My Approach to Putting an AI Agent in Front of a Metrics Backend
A prototype putting a local LLM agent in front of a Prometheus/Thanos stack. Baseline-aware alerting, a ~4,800-to-2 query batching rewrite, and lessons from a 7B model.
Why DNS Failover Doesn't Work (And What to Do Instead)
Why DNS-based database failover fails in practice due to connection pools, resolver caching, and TCP behavior, and what solutions actually work.
The Art of Right-Sizing: A Framework for Infrastructure Cost Decisions
A practical framework for making infrastructure cost decisions that balance cost, risk, operational overhead, and business constraints.
When Your Deployment Platform Becomes the Problem: Evaluating Overengineering
A framework for evaluating deployment platforms and identifying when complexity has become overengineering. Red flags, questions to ask, and when complexity is justified.
Reverse Engineering Existing Cloud Infrastructure into Terraform
A practical guide to converting your existing cloud resources into maintainable Infrastructure as Code. Covers the challenges, manual approaches, and automated solutions.
Troubleshooting Kong Gateway to Upstream Service Connectivity in Kubernetes
A systematic approach to diagnosing and resolving Kong Gateway networking issues in Kubernetes environments. DNS, service discovery, and common pitfalls.
HAProxy SSL Termination Patterns for Multi-Domain Environments
Practical patterns for implementing SSL termination with HAProxy when handling multiple domains. SNI routing, certificate management, and configuration examples.