Hi, my name is Ala.

I build platforms and the teams behind them. This is where I keep the long thoughts and the short ones.

writing

Essays sit on a single line — title, leader, date. Shorter posts open up and say the whole thing right here.

2023
Infrastructure Platform Engineering Organizational structures and models NOV 23
2023 Report: If Platform Engineering is so great, why isn't it? SEP 14
Platform Engineering Landmines - Part 1 AUG 26
The Evolution of Cloud, Infrastructure, and Platform Engineering Organizations JUL 30
Search The Deck JAN 08
2022
How to refactor for Startups 2022: reasons and tradeoffs NOV 27
Serverless vs. Microservices: Two Sides of the Same Coin

I just wrote up a piece around the confusion the Internet creates around Serverless and Microservices. The “Serverless vs. Microservices” debate presents a dilemma between two supposedly incompatible strategies that must be fundamentally at odds with each other. In reality, they are as similar as two flavors of ice cream - you might prefer chocolate chip, but strawberry will work just as well.

Check it out at the official Klotho blog.

June 8, 2022
Cloud computing architecture for the next ten years - Part 2 MAR 16
Cloud computing architecture for the next ten years JAN 07
Klo.Restart

We’ve recently launched Klotho, a tool that unlocks the next generation of cloud computing. It’s such an exciting time that I decided to reboot the blog 🔥

January 1, 2022
2016
Biggest Ideas, Humble Beginnings JUL 07
2015
Update: Scraping and Data Mining for Beginners and Pros FEB 17
Bel Balad: The Webseries that didn't happen FEB 01
2014
How To Make Long Distance Flying Easy NOV 14

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