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Kubernetes

A collection of 2 posts
System Architecture

Building a Poor Man's PKI using Terraform and cert-manager

When you're dealing with sensitive data, "secure enough" usually isn't enough. Enforcing TLS for all inter-service communication across our infrastructure has always been a strict requirement for us. Even though Azure uses wire encryption on their data plane, relying solely on cloud provider magic
28 Feb 2026 4 min read
System Design

How I Taught My Services to Talk to Each Other (Without a Message Broker)

So, picture this. You've built a slick Go service. It takes some data from Azure Blob Storage, does some heavy lifting to compile it into a regexp object, and uses that for string matching. The compilation is the slow part, so you, being the clever developer you are,
19 Jul 2025 3 min read
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