What if your next MVP could run on two servers behind a load balancer, with nothing but your website exposed to the internet, and your infrastructure code refused any change that would turn your free
Optimizing Identity Management using Terraform and Cloud Services from Google and Oracle
GKE Cluster
Introduction HashiCorp Vault is a powerful secrets management tool that helps organizations secure, store, and control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, and encryption keys. One challenge with managing Vault is the need to unseal it after ea...
Introduction In early 2025, I undertook a cost optimization project for a startup running a legacy Java/Servlet/JSP application. The goal was to reduce hosting costs while maintaining or improving infrastructure quality. This post details our journey...
Cloud Architecture
ArgoCD is a popular open-source tool for implementing GitOps principles and managing Kubernetes resources declaratively using Git as a single source of truth. In this blog post, we'll learn how to deploy ArgoCD on a private Google Kubernetes Engine (...
Introduction My name is Merlin Saha, and I'm an experienced software developer into the exciting world of Cloud Architecture and DevOps Engineering. This blog post chronicles my journey, from my initial interest in Google Cloud to building a robust c...
The cloud computing landscape has evolved significantly over the past decade. While many organizations already use multiple cloud services, there's a crucial distinction between simply using multiple clouds and implementing a strategic multi-cloud ar...
