Godfrey Ogembo
Cloud
engineer
About
Cloud Engineer with 2+ years of experience in backend development and Cloud Infrastructure automation. Passionate about distributed collaboration, community mentorship, and solving complex problems from first principles.
Engineering Blog
Perspectives on Python backend development, building secure enterprise cloud infrastructure, scaling AWS resources, and fostering engineering culture.
Today on Kubernetes: How to Migrate Live Kubernetes Clusters from Flannel to Cilium Node-by-Node
A hands-on guide to safely executing a live, rolling migration from Flannel to Cilium using Cilium's CiliumNodeConfig CRD, allowing you to migrate a cluster node by node without disrupting existing pod-to-pod communication.
Domain-Driven NoSQL Data Modeling (A Pragmatic Guide)
How to apply Domain-Driven Design principles to NoSQL databases, avoiding common pitfalls with document, wide column, and graph databases in production.
Today on Kubernetes: From kubeadm init to eBPF
A hands-on Kubernetes bootstrap on GCP, including the Cilium networking issues that stood between kubeadm init and a working pod-to-pod ping.
From zero to deployed: A guide to GKE deployments
A walkthrough on building, scaling, and updating applications in GKE using a production mindset.
Gitea 1.26.0 Is Out, Here's What's New and Why I Still Self-Host
A look at the best new features in Gitea 1.26.0, from Terraform state registry to Actions concurrency, plus why self-hosting your Git server still makes sense in 2026.
Building a Zero Trust AWS Platform for Financial Services: A Complete Guide
How I built a production-ready, compliance-first infrastructure with automated security remediation using Terraform, EKS, and AWS native services.
Scaling Python Backends on AWS: A Practical Guide
How I leveraged EC2, S3, and API Gateway to manage high-throughput IoT data.