PinnedAyoub Reda·Oct 4The Platform Team Is the Backbone, Not the Help DeskHow to organize platform engineering so app teams build instead of operate, why the ticket-driven model turns the same job into a…
PinnedAyoub Reda·Oct 1Building a Zone-Aware EKS Cluster with Karpenter and IstioHow we stopped paying AWS for traffic that never needed to leave its Availability ZoneA response icon2A response icon2
PinnedAyoub Reda·Jul 20How to Fail a Digital TransformationA field guide, written backwards, from the transformations that didn’t make it
Ayoub Reda·Oct 19Multi-Cloud Banking: Moving a GCC Bank to Kubernetes on Two CloudsOracle Cloud as the primary site, Huawei Cloud as the secondary, both serving traffic, and the data never leaving the country
Ayoub Reda·Oct 14Database Connections at Scale with ProxySQL and PgBouncerPHP, Java, Python and Go each handle connections differently, and all of them multiply with pods. How a central pooling tier kept our…
Ayoub Reda·Oct 14From PHP and Java to Go and gRPC, One Route at a TimeMoving a streaming backend to Go services in one monorepo, with Istio mirroring and path routing instead of a cutover night
Ayoub Reda·Oct 8Canary and Blue-Green Deployments with Argo Rollouts, Istio and MimirRolling updates are a fine default until a release breaks your Kafka consumers or reaches every pod before anyone sees the errors. How we…
Ayoub Reda·Oct 7Azure Landing Zones: Reaching a Private Estate with VPN, Virtual Desktops and TeleportEverything is private, so how do people get in? A VPN for platform engineers, virtual desktops for data teams, and Teleport for privileged…
Ayoub Reda·Oct 6Azure Landing Zones: Subscription Vending as a Platform ServiceTwo front doors, one governed path: how teams get a compliant Azure subscription on demand
Ayoub Reda·Oct 6Azure Landing Zones: Designing the Network for a Private, Multi-Region EstateOne address plan, a hub in every region, a star through the control plane, and DNS that stays local
