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Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Engineering

Deploying Microservices with Azure Kubernetes Service

August 20, 2026 · 8 min read

In this guide, we explore best practices for deploying containerized microservices on AKS. Topics include Helm chart management, ingress configuration with cert-manager, and horizontal pod autoscaling strategies for production workloads.

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Terraform State Management: Remote Backends Compared

August 15, 2026 · 6 min read

Managing Terraform state files is critical for team collaboration. We compare Azure Blob Storage, AWS S3, and Terraform Cloud as remote backends, focusing on locking mechanisms, encryption at rest, and disaster recovery procedures.

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Observability Stack: Prometheus + Grafana on ARM64

August 10, 2026 · 10 min read

Running a full observability stack on ARM64 instances offers significant cost savings. This post walks through deploying Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager on Ampere-based cloud VMs with optimized resource limits.

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