Engineering Journal
Articles
Notes from real platform, cloud, and IoT work — not general commentary.
Leading Through Architecture, Not Headcount
Notes on providing technical leadership for a 3-engineer team responsible for hundreds of production workloads on a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform.
From PHP Monolith to Multi-Tenant Kubernetes: A Decade of Evolution
Looking back at ten years of architecture shifts — from optimizing a single MySQL database to operating a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform.
What a Cluster-Wide Overcommit Taught Me About Multi-Tenant Kubernetes
Tracing a resource quota overcommit across 100+ namespaces on a multi-tenant EKS platform — and what actually made the fix durable.
Security for Large IoT Fleets
Why encryption, device authentication, and secure boot have to be designed in before the first device ships, not after.
Designing Telemetry Pipelines with Kafka
How decoupling ingestion from processing let a telemetry pipeline grow new consumers without touching the ingestion path.
Edge Computing at Smart-City Scale
Why device-local processing, not a faster cloud connection, was the answer to unreliable IoT connectivity.