Four times the workers and twice the memory bought exactly zero extra throughput — but the harder part was proving the measurement wasn't lying. Five ways a load test looked clean and wasn't.

Retired the 2021 Bootstrap resume theme for a hand-built Hugo terminal UI, ready for actual blog posts.

A migration story, not a tutorial: moving a production EKS cluster from AWS ALB Ingress to KGateway for native rate limiting, without a risky big-bang cutover.

Standardizing secure, auditable PostgreSQL access across multiple clouds by putting PgBouncer in front of every database and having Teleport speak cert-based auth to it everywhere.