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Why we are building our own Developer Platform

Posted on December 5, 2023 by Christopher Batey

CECG was founded by and is made up of, the most senior software engineers that want to get things done quickly.

Multi-Tenant Ingress for a GKE-based Developer Platform

Posted on December 1, 2023 by Christopher Batey

A key capability of a developer platform is to enable developers to expose services to the Internet as seamlessly as possible.

Mastering the Google Cloud Professional DevOps Exam: The Influence of Platform Engineering Excellence

Posted on November 21, 2023 by Neofytos Zacharia

Embarking on the journey to conquer the Google Cloud Professional DevOps Exam was a challenging yet rewarding experience that significantly elevated my skills and understanding of cloud technologies.

10 + 1 Things I wish I knew about operators before I wrote one

Posted on November 17, 2023 by Christopher O’Quinn

Writing a custom Kubernetes Operator for the first time can be a bit of a challenge. It’s not obvious where to look or where to start!

Upgrading Kubernetes: 8 years of production

Posted on November 8, 2023 by Matt Burgess

How we successfully keep multi-tenanted production clusters up to date. CECG engineers have been running production Kubernetes clusters for one of our clients for over 8 years now.

Continuous Load: Why and What

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Robert Moss

One of the biggest challenges in running production infrastructures is taking a proactive approach to monitoring network health and being able to find problems before any of the tenants or users.

Exploring Multi-tenancy in Kubernetes: Benefits, Approaches, and Considerations

Posted on September 25, 2023 by Neofytos Zacharia

Multi-tenancy in Kubernetes enables the hosting of multiple tenants or applications within single or multiple clusters while ensuring logical and resource isolation.

Security for an MVP Internal Developer Platform at a Retail Bank

Posted on June 27, 2023 by Tiago Alves

Over the last year, we built a Kubernetes-based Developer Platform for a large retail bank. A key part of any Developer Platform is baked-in security.

How to monitor an MVP Kubernetes-based Developer Platform with SLOs

Posted on June 13, 2023 by Jingkai He

For this engagement we built an MVP developer platform, based on Kubernetes, in a short timeframe (3 months) with 2 engineers.

Why do we use ADRs?

Posted on June 7, 2023 by Tomasz Bartosiewicz

Engineers at CECG are constantly looking for new ways to bring more value to our customers and this principle extends to our documentation and knowledge sharing.