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Thought leadership

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

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AKS Scaling & Cost2 min read

Node Pools Are an Architecture, Not a Setting

Most AKS clusters run every workload on one undifferentiated pool of VMs and call it simple. It isn't simple. It's expensive, fragile, and one bad neighbor away from an outage. Node pools are where workload intent becomes infrastructure.

AzureKubernetesPlatform Engineering
Jun 9, 2026Read
AKS GitOps & CI/CD3 min read

GitOps on AKS: Why Your Cluster Should Pull, Not Be Pushed

CI pipelines that push kubectl into your cluster feel fast and quietly rot your reliability. GitOps inverts the arrow: the cluster pulls its own desired state, and 'what's deployed' stops being a mystery.

AzureKubernetesPlatform Engineering
Apr 28, 2026Read
AKS Security2 min read

Workload Identity: Killing the Last Long-Lived Secret in AKS

Every static credential in your cluster is a small bet that it never leaks. Workload Identity lets your AKS pods talk to Azure with no secret to leak at all, and the migration is more about discipline than difficulty.

AzureKubernetesPlatform Engineering
Feb 24, 2026Read

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Articles: Thought Leadership · Sathpal Singh