Longer essays on enterprise architecture, Kubernetes, digital sovereignty and building infrastructure that cannot afford to be wrong.
Article · Tersane
How the Compliance and Assurance Convoy turns a Kubernetes cluster into the source of its own regulatory evidence: admission policies in two layers, the cluster's scanners, platform facts,...
Article · Enterprise architecture
Mamluk's enterprise offering is five layers: Debian, the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine, the Bahriya Tersane charts, the Kipchak framework, and Bahriya Cloud, which runs on the other four. Each...
Article · BKE
Most Kubernetes distributions are sold as a finished platform, and the organisation that buys one inherits every decision inside it. BKE is a fixed base and a set...
Article · BKE
A bank in Saudi Arabia running production, staging and performance testing on 320 worker cores pays for OpenShift by the core. The same estate on BKE, with Bahriya...
Article · Enterprise architecture
Handing a customer-facing product to the IT department — and to an IT manager — is a category error, not a resourcing decision. IT engineering selects, integrates and...
Article · Enterprise architecture
The industry took a word coined to remove a wall and turned it into a department. Splitting development from operations damages a business the way a body would...
Article · Kipchak
A full tour of the enterprise WAF for Kipchak — the rule model, the OWASP defaults, geo and ASN matching, rate limiting and diagnostics.
Article · Software development
Two years of copilots, agents and pilots, and the delivery numbers have barely moved. Three reasons: the tool does not travel left to right, nobody agreed what the...
Article · Kubernetes
CAP theorem to the reality of distributed container ecosystems: Consistency, Availability, Performance, and Tolerance of Network Failures as four dials wired to each other, not a menu you...
Article · Kubernetes
A new availability zone with a local flag on it is not sovereignty. Real control means owning the distribution, the operators and the people who get paged at...