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Building a CI/CD Pipeline That Ships Safely

Stages, gates, and rollbacks. A deployment pipeline has one job: turn a commit into running software with as little human risk as possible.

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Sovereign Cloud
June 4, 20269 min read

Hyperscaler Power, French Jurisdiction

Storing bytes in Europe means nothing if a US warrant can still reach them. S3NS wraps Google Cloud in a Thales-controlled French operator with SecNumCloud 3.2, so regulated data stays provably beyond foreign reach.

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Platform Engineering
June 1, 20269 min read

The Internal Developer Platform as a Product

Stop asking every team to reinvent CI, infra and observability. Pave a golden path, ship the IDP as a product, and let developers go from new repo to running service in minutes.

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Kernel Observability
May 25, 20269 min read

eBPF: See Everything, Instrument Nothing

Run sandboxed, JIT-compiled programs inside the Linux kernel for deep telemetry plus inline security, without touching a line of application code, and see what eBPF powers in 2026.

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Progressive Delivery
May 28, 20269 min read

Progressive Delivery: Canary Releases Without the Fear

Ship a new version to 5% of real traffic, watch the SLOs, and let the rollout promote itself, or roll itself back, before anyone has to wake up.

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Kubernetes
May 21, 20268 min read

Kubernetes Autoscaling Without the Surprises

HPA, VPA, and Cluster Autoscaler operate on three different axes. Confuse them and you get 2 a.m. pages. Get them right and the cluster breathes on its own.

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Cloud Strategy
May 14, 20269 min read

Public, Private, or Hybrid: Choosing What Actually Fits

Stop treating deployment models as a maturity ladder. Map each workload to the model whose cost curve and constraints actually match it.

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FinOps
May 7, 20266 min read

Cutting Cloud Spend Without Slowing Down

Cloud bills creep, an oversized instance here, a forgotten environment there. FinOps makes that creep visible and reversible without slowing engineering.

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Observability
April 30, 20268 min read

Observability Beyond Dashboards

A wall of green panels tells you what you already thought to measure is fine. Real observability is asking new questions of a live system, no new code.

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DevSecOps
April 23, 20267 min read

Shifting Security Left: A Practical Pipeline

Security in a quarterly review finds problems after they ship. Shift it into the pipeline and catch a vulnerability in the PR that introduced it.

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