Archive - The Cloud Dive

A Dev Kafka Broker for the Price of a Bad Coffee

Running a real Kafka broker for Sentinel's ingestion layer — without the managed service price tag

Mar 9 • The Cloud Dive

Sentinel: Scoping the Ingestion Layer Architecture

Defining Constraints, Making Tradeoffs, and Building the Foundation

Mar 2 • The Cloud Dive

February 2026

Sentinel: Why Most Cloud Portfolios Don’t Get You Hired

Why tutorials and certs aren’t enough and what actually moves the needle.

Feb 24 • The Cloud Dive

The Only 4 Terraform Commands You Need to Start

The init, plan, apply, and state loop every aspiring cloud engineer needs to know

Feb 18 • The Cloud Dive

Deploying Keycloak on Fly.io from 0 to 1

Inside the issue, steps to deploy Keycloak on a Fly.io app.

Feb 15 • The Cloud Dive and Plata

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