SASyed Ammarinblog.ammarplatform.com·Feb 2 · 18 min readObservability in Practice: Noise, Signals, and Alerts in Production1. Observability Was Not the Same Thing as Instrumentation By the time observability became a serious topic, the platform already had most of the building blocks you would expect. Prometheus was scrap10
SASyed Ammarinblog.ammarplatform.com·Jan 13 · 14 min readBuilding a Kubernetes Platform on AKS: Private Clusters, GitOps, and Workload SeparationIn this article, I explain how I designed and implemented a private AKS-based platform with clear separation between platform and workload clusters. The focus is on real-world decisions around network10
SASyed Ammarinblog.ammarplatform.com·Jan 5 · 20 min readDesigning Multi-Environment Platforms: What Actually Works in Practice1. Multi-Environment Was Not the Hard Part By the time I reached this stage of the platform, a lot of the visible foundation work was already in place. The Azure landing zone existed. The network mode10
SASyed Ammarinblog.ammarplatform.com·Dec 29, 2025 · 43 min readDesigning Azure Landing Zones for Enterprise Cloud Adoption: Tenants, Management Groups, and Subscription Strategy1. Introduction In one of my recent roles, I was hired for setting up the foundation for moving workloads from a primarily on-prem environment toward Azure. The starting point was not a greenfield set10
SASyed Ammarinblog.ammarplatform.com·Dec 16, 2025 · 36 min readDesigning a Developer Platform: From Infrastructure to Self-Service1. Infrastructure Was Not the Hard Part Earlier in this series, I wrote about the Azure foundation work: landing zones, subscription boundaries, RBAC, networking, and the operating model needed to mak10