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Everything we have written.
All of it worth reading.
Articles
Articles
Yara Amin
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Why I Prefer GitOps for Small Teams
A practical argument for GitOps when team size, review capacity, and operational time are limited.
Articles
Yara Amin
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Why I Prefer GitOps for Small Teams
A practical argument for GitOps when team size, review capacity, and operational time are limited.
Articles
Yara Amin
Monday, July 20, 2026
The Quiet Cost of Manual Deployments
Technical debt is visible in code, but the cost of deployment rituals usually hides inside calendar time.
Articles
Yara Amin
Monday, July 20, 2026
The Quiet Cost of Manual Deployments
Technical debt is visible in code, but the cost of deployment rituals usually hides inside calendar time.
Papers
Papers
Yara Amin
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Evaluating Kubernetes Autoscaling Strategies Under Bursty Loads
A small benchmark comparing HPA signals, queue depth, and stabilization windows under controlled traffic bursts.
Papers
Yara Amin
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Evaluating Kubernetes Autoscaling Strategies Under Bursty Loads
A small benchmark comparing HPA signals, queue depth, and stabilization windows under controlled traffic bursts.
Papers
Yara Amin
Sunday, July 19, 2026
A Comparative Study of Redis Eviction Policies for Session Workloads
Methodology and results from a focused test of eviction behavior under realistic session churn.
Papers
Yara Amin
Sunday, July 19, 2026
A Comparative Study of Redis Eviction Policies for Session Workloads
Methodology and results from a focused test of eviction behavior under realistic session churn.
Case Studies
Case Studies
Yara Amin
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Building a Multi-Region Game Platform Across Three Continents
How we designed latency budgets, failover drills, and release coordination for a global game platform.
Case Studies
Yara Amin
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Building a Multi-Region Game Platform Across Three Continents
How we designed latency budgets, failover drills, and release coordination for a global game platform.
Case Studies
Yara Amin
Saturday, July 18, 2026
Migrating a Monolith Without Stopping Weekly Releases
How an incremental migration plan preserved delivery cadence while separating critical service boundaries.
Case Studies
Yara Amin
Saturday, July 18, 2026
Migrating a Monolith Without Stopping Weekly Releases
How an incremental migration plan preserved delivery cadence while separating critical service boundaries.
Guides
Guides
Yara Amin
Monday, August 17, 2026
Setting Up Argo CD With Terraform From Scratch
A reproducible setup for bootstrapping Argo CD, repository access, and application delivery through Terraform.
Guides
Yara Amin
Monday, August 17, 2026
Setting Up Argo CD With Terraform From Scratch
A reproducible setup for bootstrapping Argo CD, repository access, and application delivery through Terraform.
Guides
Yara Amin
Friday, July 17, 2026
Instrumenting a Go Service With OpenTelemetry
Step-by-step traces, metrics, and context propagation for a Go HTTP service.
Guides
Yara Amin
Friday, July 17, 2026
Instrumenting a Go Service With OpenTelemetry
Step-by-step traces, metrics, and context propagation for a Go HTTP service.
Notes
Notes
Yara Amin
Sunday, August 16, 2026
TIL: Why My Prometheus Histogram Was Lying
A short note on bucket boundaries, aggregation, and the misleading percentile that started the investigation.
Notes
Yara Amin
Sunday, August 16, 2026
TIL: Why My Prometheus Histogram Was Lying
A short note on bucket boundaries, aggregation, and the misleading percentile that started the investigation.
Notes
Yara Amin
Thursday, July 16, 2026
TIL: DNS TTL Is a Deployment Setting
A reminder from a rollback that DNS caching belongs in every release plan.
Notes
Yara Amin
Thursday, July 16, 2026
TIL: DNS TTL Is a Deployment Setting
A reminder from a rollback that DNS caching belongs in every release plan.
Logs
Logs
Yara Amin
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Building My Own Deployment Platform — Part 03
A progress report on queued releases, health gates, and the operational decisions behind the third milestone.
Logs
Yara Amin
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Building My Own Deployment Platform — Part 03
A progress report on queued releases, health gates, and the operational decisions behind the third milestone.
Logs
Yara Amin
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Home Lab Kubernetes Cluster — Week 06
Notes from replacing hand-managed certificates with an automated renewal path.
Logs
Yara Amin
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Home Lab Kubernetes Cluster — Week 06
Notes from replacing hand-managed certificates with an automated renewal path.
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