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Essays that make hard things clear.

Architecture, AI, and the discipline of leading engineering at scale, written to be useful, not impressive.

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Strategy, trade-offs, and where to spend scarce trust.

01One Big Cluster or Many: The AKS Tenancy Decision
02Upgrades Are a Feature: Designing AKS Clusters That Survive Day 2
03The AKS Bill Nobody Forecast: Architecting for Cost from Day Zero
04Workload Identity: Killing the Last Long-Lived Secret in AKS
05AKS Without the Hand-Waving: A Mental Model for the Control Plane

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AKS Fundamentals2 min read

One Big Cluster or Many: The AKS Tenancy Decision

Consolidate into one cluster and you fight noisy neighbors and blast radius. Split into many and you drown in upgrade toil. The right answer isn't a number. It's an isolation boundary you can defend.

AzureKubernetesArchitecture

May 19, 2026Read

AKS Fundamentals2 min read

AKS Without the Hand-Waving: A Mental Model for the Control Plane

AKS hides the control plane so well that teams forget it exists, until an upgrade, an outage, or a bill reminds them. Here's the mental model that makes the managed boundary obvious.

AzureKubernetesArchitecture

Jan 15, 2026Read

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One Big Cluster or Many: The AKS Tenancy Decision

AKS Without the Hand-Waving: A Mental Model for the Control Plane

The Clarity Brief