Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• What Istio, OIDC, and STS Taught Me About Trust

  Published:Mar 20, 2026 |  at 12:00 AM

  A practical look at an identity-first access pattern across Istio, OIDC, and STS for zero-trust platform and security engineering.

• AWS "Pending" States Are a Blueprint for Async Deployments

  Published:Feb 8, 2026 |  at 03:00 PM

  Two AWS provisioning patterns (ACM PENDING_VALIDATION and RDS waiters) that quietly teach the shape of a good async deployment system.

• Terraform Modules from First Principles: Deterministic, Declarative, Idempotent

  Published:Feb 4, 2026 |  at 04:20 PM

  A first-principles way to design Terraform modules: make them deterministic, declarative, and idempotent—unless you have a good reason not to.