Blog Posts
Long-form write-ups on AWS, DevOps and Infrastructure as Code. The kind of post you read once, then come back to with a terminal open.

What's the Deal with Shift-Left Security, and Why Should You Care?
Let's be honest: security can't be an afterthought. If you're still waiting until the end of your development cycle to think about vulnerabilities, you're doing it wrong. That's where **shift-left sec

Container Image Signing with Cosign: A Hands-On Guide to Secure Your Supply Chain
- Security
- Supply Chain Security
- 18 Jan 2026
- 22 Mins read
Container images make packaging and running apps consistent across environments, which is genuinely useful. But that consistency also brings new security questions. We need to make sure the images run

GraphRAG Explained: Building Knowledge-Grounded LLM Systems
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- 11 Jan 2026
- 12 Mins read
The world of artificial intelligence is moving fast. We've gone from being amazed that Large Language Models can write a poem to wanting them to be deeply grounded in factual truth. While these models

The Resilience of Timbernetes: An Analysis of In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling in Kubernetes 1.35
- Kubernetes
- DevOps
- 04 Jan 2026
- 11 Mins read
The release of Kubernetes 1.35, officially designated as "Timbernetes," is a definitive shift in how cloud-native orchestration treats compute. This version marks the graduation of In-Place Pod Vertic

Taming the Chaos: Let's Sort Out Those Flaky CI/CD Pipelines
Ever get super frustrated with your CI/CD pipeline? You know, the one that sometimes works perfectly and other times just throws a random tantrum? You push your code, the pipeline starts doing its thi

The Democratization of Container Security: Docker Hardened Images
- Docker
- Container Security
- 19 Dec 2025
- 07 Mins read
On December 17, 2025, the world of container security changed in a big way. Docker decided to open up its entire catalog of over 1,000 Docker Hardened Images (DHI) to everyone under the Apache 2.0 lic

Database DevOps: Making PostgreSQL and MongoDB CI/CD Feel Natural
- Database DevOps
- CI/CD
- 05 Dec 2025
- 13 Mins read
Ever feel like your app deployments are super slick, but then you hit the database part, and things just... stop? It's frustrating, right? You've got this smooth CI/CD pipeline for your code, but data

Microsoft's Prompt Orchestration Markup Language (POML): Structuring the Future of AI Interaction
- AI & Machine Learning
- Developer Tools
- 20 Aug 2025
- 23 Mins read
Introduction: what is Microsoft's POML and why does it matter for AI? Large Language Models, or LLMs, are changing fast, and they're becoming super important for all sorts of complex applications.