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Notes and lessons from building cloud platforms, Kubernetes automation, networking architectures and production-grade infrastructure.

Reducing Same-Datacenter Egress: Public IPv6 Between Linodes and NodeBalancers

Akamai Cloud Compute • Networking • IPv6 • Cost Optimization

How moving same-datacenter Linode-to-NodeBalancer traffic from public IPv4 to public IPv6 can reduce metered network transfer, with a practical dual-interface design and automation workflow.

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When One Pod Must Win: Distributed Locking Lessons from Building Kubernetes Automation Systems

Kubernetes • Platform Engineering • Distributed Systems

Lessons from implementing distributed locking patterns in Kubernetes automation projects, including ConfigMap locking, etcd transactions and practical production trade-offs.

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Building a Highly Available NAT Gateway on Linode

Coming soon — design notes from building an enterprise-grade NAT gateway with failover, routing, observability and automation.

Private Networking for LKE Clusters

Coming soon — practical lessons from automating VLAN connectivity, private routing and Kubernetes worker node networking.

Secure Site-to-Site VPN Between AWS and Linode Using StrongSwan

Hybrid Cloud • Networking • StrongSwan • AWS • Linode

A production-ready hybrid cloud architecture using AWS Managed VPN, StrongSwan, Linode VPC, VLAN, dual NIC design and automatic tunnel failover.

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