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Engineering deep-dives from running Google Cloud in production at enterprise scale — Kubernetes, cloud security, DevSecOps, system architecture and AI infrastructure. By Aleksei Aleinikov · Google Cloud Ambassador · 5× certified · published author (Orange Education). English and German, for the DACH region.
Eight focused engineering hubs. Each one gathers the deep-dive articles, real-world context and FAQs for a single domain — start where you want to go deepest.
FeaturedYour prompt is fine. Your agent still loses the plot. Context engineering treats the context window as a finite budget — here's what goes in it, why bigger windows don't fix it, and the three techniques that do.
A 70B model needs 140 GB of VRAM at full precision — until you quantize it. A practical guide to GGUF, K-quants, Q4 vs Q8, what quality you actually lose, and exactly how much VRAM you need.
"SQL vs NoSQL" is the wrong first question. A practical 2026 guide to database types, what relational really means, ACID vs BASE, and a decision framework to choose by your access patterns — not by hype.
An MCP server is how you give an AI agent real capabilities — safely. A practical 2026 guide: what the protocol actually is, how to build a server, what breaks in production, and the security rules you cannot skip.
Domain-Driven Design is not a folder structure or a bag of patterns. It's a way to align software with the business. A practical 2026 guide: strategic vs tactical DDD, bounded contexts, aggregates, when it's worth it, and how to start — no jargon.
Neither a monolith nor microservices is 'modern' or 'legacy'. Each trades one kind of complexity for another. An honest 2026 guide: the real trade-offs, where each wins, the anti-patterns, and a decision framework — no dogma.
A backup is a copy of your data. Disaster recovery is getting the whole service running again — infra, network, DNS and all. Confusing the two is a multi-hour outage waiting to happen. RTO vs RPO, the four DR strategies, and why an untested plan is the real failure.
An SBOM is an inventory, not a defense. Generating one would not have stopped Log4Shell. What would: continuous CVE correlation, signed provenance, and VEX to kill the noise. A practical supply-chain security guide for 2026.
The CAP theorem is not 'pick two of three.' Partitions aren't optional, so the real choice is consistency vs availability during a network split — plus PACELC for the 99% of the time nothing is broken. A practical guide to choosing a database.
Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off last year, yet AI mostly deleted the shallow half of the job — not the job. The developer who only wires CRUD is exposed; the one who owns the system isn't. The durable 2026 skill is orchestrating AI, not competing with it.
Editors run AI detectors on writing, recruiters AI-screen AI-written résumés, universities falsely flag honest students, and paid 'humanizers' rewrite AI to fool AI detectors. An engineer's honest look at the absurd economy of machines checking machines — why AI-text detection is technically unreliable, who it harms, and what to measure instead.
Platform engineering on Kubernetes, explained without the hype: what an Internal Developer Platform actually is, how it differs from DevOps and SRE, the anatomy of an IDP, golden paths, a comparison table, and an honest answer to whether you even need one.
GenAI vs Agentic AI vs AI Agents vs LLM — the four terms everyone uses interchangeably, explained by an engineer. What each one actually is, how they nest, why GenAI and 'agentic' sit on different axes, with a comparison table and decision guide.
Is your career AI-proof? An honest 2026 answer: AI automates producing code, not the judgment to review it. Why companies confuse the two when they hire juniors plus AI, and what actually stays durable.
A practical 2026 guide to data governance on Google Cloud: the four questions every program must answer, and the exact services that answer them — Knowledge Catalog (Dataplex), Sensitive Data Protection, BigQuery policy tags, and VPC Service Controls — with a comparison table and a decision guide.
