Blog Posts
Chaos Engineering: Testing Resiliency with Chaos Monkey and Gremlin
- Mohammad Abu Mattar
- Chaos Engineering
- System Reliability
- DevOps
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Testing
- Published: 31 Jan, 2026
Modern software systems are incredibly complex. They're spread across massive networks with countless moving parts. Because of this complexity, unexpected failures are inevitable. Servers crash. Netwo
What's the Deal with Shift-Left Security, and Why Should You Care?
- Mohammad Abu Mattar
- CI/CD
- DevSecOps
- Security
- Automation
- Application Security
- Published: 24 Jan, 2026
Let's be honest: in today's software world, security can't be an afterthought. If you're still waiting until the end of your development cycle to think about vulnerabilities, you're doing it wrong. Th
Container Image Signing with Cosign: A Hands-On Guide to Secure Your Supply Chain
- Mohammad Abu Mattar
- Security
- Supply Chain Security
- Containers
- DevSecOps
- Published: 18 Jan, 2026
In today's fast-paced software world, we all rely on container images to package and run our apps. They're super consistent and efficient, which is great! But this ease also brings new security headac
GraphRAG Explained: Building Knowledge-Grounded LLM Systems
- Mohammad Abu Mattar
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Large Language Models
- Knowledge Graphs
- RAG Systems
- Published: 11 Jan, 2026
The world of artificial intelligence is moving fast. We've gone from being amazed that Large Language Models can write a poem to wanting them to be deeply grounded in factual truth. While these models
The Resilience of Timbernetes: A Comprehensive Analysis of In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling in Kubernetes 1.35
- Mohammad Abu Mattar
- Kubernetes
- DevOps
- Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure
- Platform Engineering
- Published: 04 Jan, 2026
The release of Kubernetes 1.35, officially designated as "Timbernetes," represents a definitive shift in the architectural philosophy of cloud-native orchestration. This version marks the graduation o
Taming the Chaos: Let's Sort Out Those Flaky CI/CD Pipelines
- Mohammad Abu Mattar
- CI/CD
- Testing
- DevOps
- Automation
- Pipeline Reliability
- Published: 28 Dec, 2025
Ever get super frustrated with your CI/CD pipeline? You know, the one that sometimes works perfectly and other times just throws a random tantrum? You push your code, the pipeline starts doing its thi
The Democratization of Container Security: Docker Hardened Images
- Mohammad Abu Mattar
- Docker
- Container Security
- DevSecOps
- Supply Chain Security
- Published: 19 Dec, 2025
On December 17, 2025, the world of container security changed in a big way. Docker decided to open up its entire catalog of over 1,000 Docker Hardened Images (DHI) to everyone under the Apache 2.0 lic
Database DevOps: Making PostgreSQL and MongoDB CI/CD Feel Natural
- Mohammad Abu Mattar
- Database DevOps
- CI/CD
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Automation
- DevOps
- Published: 05 Dec, 2025
Ever feel like your app deployments are super slick, but then you hit the database part, and things just... stop? It's frustrating, right? You've got this smooth CI/CD pipeline for your code, but data