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Sourced news, in-depth analysis and hands-on tutorials across AI engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure as code and security. Every article is reviewed by a human editor.
The design of MOKS, an AI SRE portal: permission-aware hybrid RAG, versioned SKILL.md playbooks, and why knowledge is data while skills are instructions.
17 min read
A step-by-step EKS runbook for RoboShop AI: Terraform, controllers, secrets, Istio and policy rollout, autoscaling tests, observability, rollback and teardown.
7 min read
How RoboShop AI maps onto Amazon EKS: NLB and Istio ingress, mesh authorization, Gatekeeper policies, KEDA and Karpenter scaling, and telemetry.
12 min read
How RoboShop AI splits an AI shopping demo into microservices: request, AI chat and order-event flows, plus the benefits and trade-offs of the design.
13 min read
How RoboShop AI's storefront, gateway, AI assistant and data services fit together, how it ships to Kubernetes today, and how its EKS stack is designed.
10 min read
Eight areas where engineering teams make the decisions that matter most right now.
Systems the editor has built, and how they work.
How this site works - Next.js on Minikube with PostgreSQL, Redis, Cloudflare R2, built-in admin, audit log, encrypted backups and full observability.
9 min read
A polyglot microservices store - TypeScript, Python, Java - with an AI shopping assistant, MCP tools and full observability, deployed with Argo CD.
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The rules behind the publication, so you know what you can rely on.
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Writes and edits Jithendar.com and builds the systems behind it, including RoboShop AI, a public microservices storefront with an AI shopping assistant, deployed on Kubernetes.