Bilal Ahmad

~Engineers solve problems, I solve engineer's problems 🤘

Hey there! I use this space to write down my thoughts and experiments (mostly tech related). I would love to get feedback and comment which is at the bottom of every page.

Mandatory Disclosure 👀: Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer or previous employers.


 

14 Nov 2024
AWS EKS Cost Optimization
[AWS, EKS, Cost] 3 min read


24 May 2024
The Hidden Bill: AWS Data Transfer Costs Within Availability Zones
[AWS, Networking, Cost] 3 min read


17 October 2023
Mastering the Art of Alerting
[OnCall, Culture, Monitoring, Alerting] 2 min read


23 January 2023
5 signs of toxic workplace
[Leadership, Culture] 6 min read


22 January 2023
Drawbacks of Microservices
[Architecture] 6 min read


12 January 2023
Common Isio Mistakes
[SRE, DevOps] 6 min read


2 January 2023
Cloud Migrations
[SRE, DevOps] 7 min read


21 December 2022
Continuous Deployment - Best Practices
[CI/CD] 4 min read


15 December 2022
Core Pillars of Architecture
[Architecture] 6 min read


1 December 2022
Service Level Agreements - Best Practices
[SRE] 4 min read


3 November 2022
6 Most Common Deployment Strategies
[CI/CD] 8 min read


19 September 2022
Github self hosted Runners on EKS with Ansible
[Infrastructure-as-a-code] 7 min read


3 July 2022
What constitutes a Continuous Integration process
[CI/CD] 4 min read


1 June 2022
Running Terraform through Ansible
[Infrastructure-as-a-code] 12 min read


2 December 2021
Pulumi vs Terroform vs AWS CDK
[Infrastructure-as-a-code] 7 min read


2 October 2021
Getting started with Cloud Run
[Serverless, GCP] 6 min read


29 Aug 2021
gRPC web on Istio
[Kubernetes, Istio, gRPC] 11 min read


25 Nov 2020
Gcloud disaster recovery for data
[Architecture, GCP] 4 min read


31 Aug 2020
Why Everyone needs to vent sometimes
[Productivity, Culture] 6 min read


12 June 2020
Running unit test cases for every push using Github Actions
[Continuos Integration] 7 min read


20 Mar 2020
Gcloud Secret Manager for environment variables in application
[Security, GCP] 4 min read


22 Feb 2020 k8s setup with Skaffold for development environment
[Kubernetes, Docker] 9 min read


9 Nov 2019
DevSecOps: Security breach Incident protocol
[Security, Management] 4 min read


15 May 2019
Nginx does not dynamically resolve AWS ELB IP. Lets talk about the solution
[Nginx, AWS] 3 min read


8 Oct 2018
Set up Hashicorp Vault
[Security, Microservices] 10 min read


1 July 2017
Everyone will tell you how to give feedback, nobody tells you how to receive it
[Productivity, Management] 6 min read