Cloud Architecture

Kubernetes has become so familiar that many teams don’t choose to adopt it anymore; they just start using it. When a new internal API appears, someone sets up an AKS cluster, and within weeks, the team manages node pools, upgrade channels, ingress, identity, policies, observability, and a backlog of Helm charts. None of these decisions are incorrect, but the issue is that the workload might never have required a Kubernetes platform in the first place. ...

Architecture Decides the Blast Radius Part 4 of the Cloud Security series This article is the fourth part of a series on cloud security in real-world Azure environments. Earlier, we explored how foundational improvements can create momentum, highlighted why identity is the most vital security control in the cloud, and explained how aimless logging can lead to visibility without comprehension. In this part, we move from signals and access to a more structural topic: architecture. Because some security controls will inevitably fail, the platform’s architecture determines whether such failures are contained or lead to disaster. ...