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Articles: Enterprise architecture.

Articles from Mamluk about enterprise architecture, operating models and technology strategy.

Article · Enterprise architecture

The remarkable simplicity of Mamluk's enterprise offering

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...

26 Oct 2026 · 16 min

Article · BKE

Kubernetes built from parts: what a composable distribution gives the enterprise

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...

20 Oct 2026 · 11 min

Article · Enterprise architecture

Operators are not builders: why the region resells software

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...

9 Sep 2026 · 17 min

Article · Enterprise architecture

One body, many masters: DevOps has an architectural cause

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...

8 Sep 2026 · 13 min

Article · Kubernetes

DCCAPTN - a CAP theorem adapted for distributed containers

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...

3 Jul 2026 · 9 min

Article · Kubernetes

Why sovereign Kubernetes matters more than a cloud region

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...

15 May 2026 · 2 min