Making a Backstage Catalog Survive a Cluster RebuildWhy my service catalog kept losing entries, and how GitHub discovery and dependency relations fixed it Context This is the continuation of my TaskFlow platform project: a Backstage internal developerOct 15 · 5 min readonyiglobal2025.hashnode.dev
I Built an Internal Developer Portal on EKS. Three Bugs Taught Me More Than the Build Did.Ninety seconds. That is how long it takes a developer to go from a form submission to a GitHub repository with a Dockerfile, a Helm chart, CI authenticating to AWS over OIDC, ArgoCD delivery config, aSep 7 · 16 min readonyiglobal2025.hashnode.dev
Building a Production-Shaped Observability Platform on EKS: OpenTelemetry, the LGTM Stack, and the Bugs Nobody Warns You AboutObservability is one of those things that looks simple in a diagram and turns into a week of CrashLoopBackOff in practice. This is the story of building a full observability platform for a containerizAug 6 · 10 min readonyiglobal2025.hashnode.dev
GitLab 403: "You Are Not Allowed to Push Code to This Project" — FixedContext: After a GitHub account suspension took my public repositories and portfolio offline, I set up GitLab as a mirror so my work stayed accessible during the appeal. What should have been a quick Aug 4 · 9 min readonyiglobal2025.hashnode.dev
GitOps on AWS EKS — ArgoCD, Cognito, OIDC, HPA, ExternalDNS, ACM, and RDSHow I transformed a manually deployed app into a fully automated, self-healing, securely accessible production system A few months ago I completed Phase 3 of my TaskFlow DevOps Capstone. I never wrotJul 30 · 23 min readonyiglobal2025.hashnode.dev