Platform Engineering

The layer under your services — Kubernetes from an empty cluster, then a service mesh with Istio, with every claim run against a real lab.

Kubernetes from Scratch

Containers, orchestrated — pods, deployments, services, and the reconcile loop, built up from an empty kind cluster to a running bookshop.

15 posts
Istio from Scratch

A service mesh without sidecars — ambient mode, ztunnel, waypoints, and mTLS you did not have to ask for, on Istio 1.30.

12 posts
Istio in Practice

The mesh in the real world — the sidecars you inherit, migrating without an outage, tracing, egress, multicluster, cost, upgrades, and debugging it at 3am.

14 posts