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Practical writing for engineering leaders and the engineers doing the work.
Platform Engineering7 min

What Is Platform Engineering?

Platform engineering treats infrastructure as an internal product. Here is what that means in practice — and what it doesn't.

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Platform EngineeringDRAFT · 8 min

Internal Developer Platforms: What Engineering Teams Actually Need

Most IDP initiatives start with a portal. The successful ones start with the paths behind it.

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KubernetesDRAFT · 9 min

Kubernetes Cost Optimization

Requests, limits, bin-packing and autoscaling: where Kubernetes cost actually hides.

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AI Infrastructure10 min

Building Production-Ready AI Infrastructure

Training and inference place very different demands on infrastructure. A practical view of what production-ready means.

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AI InfrastructureDRAFT · 8 min

Kubernetes for AI and ML Workloads

When Kubernetes is the right substrate for AI workloads, and what you need to add to make it work.

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AI InfrastructureDRAFT · 9 min

GPU Infrastructure and Scheduling

Gang scheduling, queues, quotas and topology: making expensive accelerators actually get used.

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MLOpsDRAFT · 8 min

MLOps: From Notebook to Production

The steps between a working notebook and a reliable production model — and how to automate them.

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SRE6 min

SLOs vs SLIs vs SLAs

Three acronyms that are often used interchangeably. They shouldn't be.

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SREDRAFT · 6 min

Error Budgets Explained

How error budgets turn reliability data into release and prioritization decisions.

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DevOpsDRAFT · 7 min

GitOps for Production Kubernetes

Declarative delivery, drift detection and auditable change for production clusters.

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DevOpsDRAFT · 6 min

Terraform vs Manual Infrastructure

Why click-ops becomes a liability, and how to bring existing infrastructure under code.

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FinOpsDRAFT · 8 min

Cloud Cost Optimization for Engineering Teams

Cost is an engineering metric. A practical approach to visibility, ownership and optimization.

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