Hi, I'm /hassan

I build cloud infrastructure
and think in systems
and first principles.

Platform Engineer building cloud-native infrastructure for the AI era. As AI agents make writing code and infrastructure faster than ever, I believe engineering is becoming less about implementation and more about intent. The real value lies in understanding why systems are designed the way they are, the trade-offs behind every decision, and how thoughtful architecture creates software that is resilient, scalable, and adaptable for years to come. I write about platform engineering, cloud architecture, distributed systems, and first-principles thinking.

Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
Python
Docker
Terraform
AWS
Azure
Grafana
Spark
Ansible
GitHub Actions
Helm
Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry
Python
Docker
Terraform
AWS
Azure
Grafana
Spark
Ansible
GitHub Actions
Helm

First principles

Frameworks and principles I keep coming back to.

A running index of the frameworks and principles behind what I build.

Observability
A system should tell you it's sick before you have to ask it.

Replaced box-by-box SSH log-reading with a full telemetry stack deployed inside air-gapped VMs: one dashboard instead of the login-and-tail ritual.

OpenTelemetry · Grafana · Prometheus · ASML

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Reproducibility
If it only lives in the console, it doesn't exist.

A three-tier AWS application defined end to end as code. Standing it up or rebuilding from scratch is a command, not an act of memory.

ECS Fargate · RDS · ElastiCache · Terraform / Terragrunt

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Resource limits
A pod that looks healthy on paper can still be throttled in production.

Traced stuttering latency back to CFS quota math: containers were being throttled well below their configured CPU limit, and the fix meant rethinking how limits get set.

Kubernetes · cgroups · CFS quotas · ASML

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Jul 3, 2026
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Jul 3, 2026
Terraform State at Scale: Isolation Patterns, Drift, and the Monorepo Trap
How to design Terraform state boundaries that minimise blast radius, detect drift before it becomes an incident, and avoid the dependency tangles that make large IaC repos unmaintainable.
Jun 20, 2025
OpenTelemetry Collector: The Architecture You Need Before You Hit Production
A practical deep dive into building an OTel collector pipeline that handles backpressure, tail sampling, and real production load, with the configuration patterns that matter.
Jun 1, 2025

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I write about frameworks and principles from the things I build and read. Infra, AI agents, and the occasional detour outside of these topics. ~Monthly, sometimes more often.