Leadership
What makes engineering leadership actually work. Hiring, ownership, technical decision-making, feedback culture, and the practical habits behind teams that ship consistently without burning out.
May 12, 2026
Leadership
Team building
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FinOps
A practical guide to cloud cost optimization that goes beyond rightsizing. How FinOps, architecture, and engineering culture combine to reduce cloud spend sustainably.
May 9, 2026
FinOps
Cloud
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Java
A pragmatic guide to modernizing legacy Java applications. JDK upgrades, Spring Boot migration, native image options with GraalVM, containerization, and the trade-offs that matter in production.
May 6, 2026
Java
Modernization
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AI Productivity
How experienced engineering teams are using AI productively, without breaking quality. Concrete workflows, where AI is a force multiplier, and where it still hurts more than it helps.
Apr 29, 2026
AI
Productivity
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Operations
A practical guide to observability in modern distributed systems. What logs, metrics, and traces are actually for, how to design SLOs, and what to skip to keep costs and noise under control.
Apr 15, 2026
Observability
SLO
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Architecture
A practical guide to event-driven architecture with Apache Kafka. Topic design, schema evolution, idempotency, exactly-once semantics, and the patterns that actually work in production.
Apr 1, 2026
Kafka
Event-driven
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Cloud Assessment
Before choosing rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retain, or retire, teams need a shared view of what matters most. A practical business value versus pain quadrant for 6R modernization.
Apr 1, 2026
Cloud
6R modernization
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Platform
Kubernetes is a powerful platform, but it is the wrong answer for many modernization projects. A practical guide to when Kubernetes accelerates legacy modernization and when it slows you down.
Mar 18, 2026
Kubernetes
Platform
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DevOps
How to design CI/CD pipelines that scale with the team and the system. Trunk-based development, fast feedback, progressive delivery, and the practical patterns that keep delivery flow healthy.
Mar 4, 2026
CI/CD
DevOps
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Cloud Strategy
An honest comparison of AWS, Azure, and GCP for application modernization. How the choice affects architecture, cost, talent, and time to value, with practical guidance for picking the right cloud.
Feb 18, 2026
Cloud
Strategy
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Architecture
A pragmatic playbook for decomposing a monolith using bounded contexts, the strangler fig pattern, and incremental delivery, while keeping the business running.
Feb 4, 2026
Microservices
Modernization
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