I'm Deepu Soman — an IT leader in Kuwait with 21+ years across infrastructure, project & program management and cyber security, and PMP, CISA, TOGAF plus twenty more professional certifications. This site is where I write down what actually worked — practical guides for IT professionals and certification candidates.
Long-form, practical articles from real project experience.
HashiCorp has put a KMS v2 plugin for Kubernetes into public beta, moving the key encryption key that protects etcd out of the cluster and into Vault Enterprise. It closes a real gap for self-managed…
Microsoft has moved the Copilot conversation from seats sold to work transformed — a sensible shift, and a harder one than the phrase suggests. Here's what the seat number actually tells you, what it…
An InfoQ talk on building resilient infrastructure platforms lands on familiar ground — technical debt, deprecation, engineering culture. They are the three themes most organisations consistently und…
An InfoQ Live panel on production operations in the age of AI circles a question most of us have been avoiding: our incident-response discipline assumes the same input produces the same output. Once …
Focused tracks, each built from real project experience.
Microsoft has put a dedicated AI Gateway tier of Azure API Management into public preview, with a control plane built around models, MCP servers and tools rather than APIs. The consolidation is genui…
Midnight Blizzard's Storm-2945 sub-cluster has been manipulating traffic on hotel and venue captive portal networks since May 2026 to push malware and harvest credentials from travellers. The techniq…
Microsoft says Defender isolated a compromised QNET endpoint in 128 seconds and stopped a ransomware chain before it spread. The number is real enough — but it's the end of a long configuration story…