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January 3, 2026

Building a Kubernetes Monitoring Stack from Scratch - The Rest of It (Terraform, Custom Exporter & Autoscaler)

I manually deployed Prometheus, Grafana, Node Exporter on Kubernetes, got the dopamine hit from seeing real metrics, and promised I'd do the mature thing next, Terraform, custom metrics, and a real autoscaling controller.

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November 30, 2025

Building a Kubernetes Monitoring Stack from Scratch

I am currently architecting a custom Kubernetes Monitoring & Autoscaling System to deepen my expertise in Cloud-Native engineering.

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November 2, 2025

From Zero to Deployed: Spinning up a Go App, Postgres DB, and Redis Cache under 90 seconds

As a backend engineer, deploying a simple static site is one thing. But what about a "real" application? I'm talking about a Go (Gin) API that needs to talk to a Postgres database and a Redis cache.

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September 4, 2025

From Manual Deployment Hell to One-Command Deploys: Building a CI/CD Pipeline

It all starts with a simple git push and ends with the app running in production. Let me walk you through how it all comes together.

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August 30, 2025

Building AWS Infrastructure the Sane Way: A Terraform VPC Guide

Terraform is a way to build the infra without having to go on the aws website and click buttons. The primary reason? To build the infra as many times as needed without needing to go and bang your head to build that EC2 instance 10 times.

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July 22, 2025

Why Was My Localhost SSH Taking 3 Seconds? A Deep Dive.

It began as "why can't I SSH into my own computer?" turned into an unexpected masterclass in network debugging. Here's how I was able to create my framework for debugging these issues

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