AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies are the backbone of access control in AWS. But let’s be honest: IAM policies can look intimidating at first. They are written in JSON, filled with ...

Abstract In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud-native computing, service-to-service communication is becoming increasingly complex. Reliability, observability, scalability, and security are n...

Abstract In the context of modern computing, JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) has become the de facto standard for data interchange between systems. On Unix-based systems, processing JSON via she...

Introduction Overlay file systems are one of those powerful but often misunderstood features of the Linux kernel. If you’ve ever worked with containers, used a live Linux distribution, or built sa...

🔍 Introduction Imagine you’re building a secure file upload and validation system for a continuous integration (CI) platform. After a user pushes a repository or artifact archive, your backend unp...

🧠 Introduction If you’ve ever worked on Linux, you’ve almost certainly encountered mounts — even if you’ve never had to manage them directly. Whether it’s plugging in a USB drive, accessing /proc,...

Building platforms, APIs, and shared libraries isn’t just about clean code. It’s about not breaking people. 🧠 Backward Compatibility Is Harder Than It Looks When you build platforms, APIs, or sh...

As engineers, we often focus on writing safe code, deploying with care, and measuring performance. But when we make changes to a core platform component—something that runs in every environment, hu...

When I first encountered FUSE, I didn’t immediately realize how useful it could be. At the time, I was working on a platform that needed to ingest data from an internal storage API - something prop...

Problem At some point, error and warning messages stopped appearing inline while working in Neovim. The signs in the gutter were still visible, but the actual messages were missing from the code. ...