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Container Security for Startups: Image Scanning, Runtime Policies, and Supply Chain Integrity
A practical guide to container security covering image hardening, vulnerability scanning in CI, runtime policies, supply chain integrity with cosign and SBOMs, and secrets management. Focused on what startups actually need versus enterprise theater.
eBPF for Production Observability: Deep System Tracing Without Code Changes
How eBPF enables kernel-level observability for HTTP tracing, TCP monitoring, DNS logging, and CPU profiling without modifying application code, plus when it is worth the operational complexity.
Supply Chain Security for Node.js: Lockfile Integrity, SBOM Generation, and Dependency Auditing in CI/CD
A practical guide to defending Node.js applications against supply chain attacks: lockfile integrity verification, SBOM generation with CycloneDX, automated dependency auditing, and GitHub Actions pipeline configs that actually catch problems before they ship.
PostgreSQL Performance Tuning in Production: Query Plans, Index Strategy, and Connection Management
A practical guide to PostgreSQL performance for production systems. Covers EXPLAIN ANALYZE, index types, covering indexes, connection pooling with PgBouncer, configuration tuning, and autovacuum.
Production Readiness Reviews: A Pre-Launch Checklist for Startup Engineering Teams
A practical guide to production readiness reviews for startup engineering teams. Covers reliability, observability, security, data, deployment, operational readiness, and dependencies, with a concrete checklist and guidance on when to skip vs when to treat items as non-negotiable.
Service Mesh in Practice: Istio, Linkerd, and When Your Startup Actually Needs One
A practical guide to service meshes for startup engineering teams. Covers what a service mesh actually does, the sidecar proxy model, Istio vs Linkerd head-to-head with real resource numbers, ambient mesh, eBPF alternatives, and an opinionated decision framework based on team size and compliance requirements.
SOC 2 Compliance for Engineering Teams: Controls, Evidence Collection, and Automation Without Slowing Down
A practical engineering guide to SOC 2 compliance. Covers Trust Service Criteria, Type I vs Type II, which controls engineering teams own, evidence collection automation from GitHub and AWS, infrastructure-as-code as compliance evidence, common audit mistakes, and tools like Vanta and Drata.
Container Security in Production: Image Scanning, Runtime Policies, and Supply Chain Integrity
A practical guide to the full container security lifecycle, from building minimal images and scanning in CI/CD to runtime policies, supply chain integrity, and secrets management.
GitOps in Practice: Declarative Deployments with ArgoCD, Flux, and Reconciliation Loops
GitOps is not just a deployment pattern. It is a contract between your Git history and your cluster state. This guide covers the real mechanics of ArgoCD and Flux, repo structure, Kustomize and Helm overlays, drift detection, secret management with Sealed Secrets and External Secrets Operator, multi-environment promotion, and the cases where GitOps adds more friction than it removes.
Monitoring and Alerting Strategy for Startups: What to Alert On, How to Reduce Noise, and When to Page
A practical guide for small engineering teams: building a signal-over-noise alerting system using the alert pyramid, SLI-based thresholds, runbooks, and concrete TypeScript health check patterns.
Automated Rollback Strategies: Health Checks, Metric Gates, and Safe Reverts in Production
Automated rollback is not just a revert button. It requires health checks that go beyond HTTP 200, metric gates that distinguish signal from noise, and rollback mechanics that account for database state, platform constraints, and the humans who have to trust the system.
Disaster Recovery for Startups: RTO, RPO, and Multi-Region Failover Without Enterprise Budgets
A practical guide to disaster recovery architecture for startups that cannot afford enterprise DR solutions. Covers RTO, RPO, DR tier levels, database replication, DNS failover, and automated switching with real TypeScript examples.