Investigating silent backend degradation using flow-level observabilityKubernetes is very good at telling you when something is down. It's much less useful at telling you when something is quietly getting worse. There's a class of failure where a backend is still running1Jul 13 · 6 min readheloise.hashnode.dev
EFK on EKS: 4 Configuration Decisions That Prevent Production FailuresThis is a companion to my previous article on inheriting and fixing a broken EFK stack. That article focused on what breaks in production. This one focuses on the configuration decisions that prevent 1Jul 5 · 16 min readheloise.hashnode.dev
EFK on Kubernetes: From Broken Stack to Production-Ready LoggingMost EFK articles start with a clean environment and walk you through a perfect setup. This one doesn't. This article is about inheriting a running EFK stack on AKS that looked healthy, discovering it1Jun 28 · 17 min readheloise.hashnode.dev
Building Secure Kubernetes Guardrails on EKS with OPA Gatekeeper and GitOpsOver the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring Kubernetes policy enforcement and GitOps to deepen my understanding beyond traditional CI/CD and infrastructure automation. As part of this, I built a smalJun 23 · 7 min readheloise.hashnode.dev
Inside an AWS Web RequestWhen a user types https://seqas.online into a browser, what actually happens before the application appears on the screen? Understanding the entire request lifecycle is far more valuable than memorizJun 8 · 9 min readheloise.hashnode.dev
