https://akshayrathod.me/writing/ Notes on platform engineering: CI, observability, secretless deploys, and the work that has no ticket. en Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://akshayrathod.me/writing/ci-40-minutes-to-8/ https://akshayrathod.me/writing/ci-40-minutes-to-8/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The twenty-minute password, a database that didn't need a disk, and two speed fixes that were really correctness fixes. ci elixir performance https://akshayrathod.me/writing/no-password-in-the-pipeline/ https://akshayrathod.me/writing/no-password-in-the-pipeline/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Short-lived OIDC tokens, scoped secrets that expire, and why the control has to apply to me too. security ci cloudflare https://akshayrathod.me/writing/observability-from-zero/ https://akshayrathod.me/writing/observability-from-zero/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT We found out production was down when a customer told us. That's an ordering problem, not a monitoring problem. observability grafana platform https://akshayrathod.me/writing/black-box-for-containers/ https://akshayrathod.me/writing/black-box-for-containers/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT The evidence dies with the process. So record continuously and read the recorder. containers debugging go https://akshayrathod.me/writing/hello-world/ https://akshayrathod.me/writing/hello-world/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why I'm writing about the parts of engineering that are invisible when they work. meta