A FIELD GUIDE TO BUILDING IN THE CLOUD
Practical guides, lessons learned, and useful resources for your cloud-native journey.
Notes from Ravindra KumarTHE LATEST FIELD NOTE
Cloud SecurityAn open-source policy library for MCP tool calls passed its own unit tests, then failed a real attack. What the bug was, why guards and databases disagree, and how to try the fix.
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An open-source policy library for MCP tool calls passed its own unit tests, then failed a real attack. What the bug was, why guards and databases disagree, and how to try the fix.
Ravindra KumarFollow one HTTPS request through an Internet Gateway, NACLs, security groups, an ALB, Istio and a NetworkPolicy, and see where each kind of bad traffic gets stopped.
Ravindra KumarA reference architecture for joining AWS and Google Cloud privately: IP planning, the three interconnect options, hub-and-spoke on both sides, hybrid DNS and security, with editable draw.io diagrams.
Ravindra KumarWhat actually happens when each Kubernetes probe fails, why liveness should almost never check your database, and when you need a startup probe.
Ravindra KumarSMALL STEPS. REAL PROGRESS.
