Michael Ridner
Platform engineering, entrepreneurship, and life.
Platform architect turned consultant. I help startups scale their cloud infrastructure - architecting solutions, tightening delivery pipelines, fixing security gaps, and optimizing cloud spend without slowing teams down. Currently also building a platform focused on DevOps and Cloud observability tooling. Based in Israel.
Writing
- My 300-line eBPF tool inspects which pods are reading your K8s secrets Open sourced my weekend project - a lightweight eBPF tool for monitoring Kubernetes secret access.
- How a Cosmos Backup Configuration Drift Nearly Deleted Production A real incident story - how a sequence of reasonable decisions, combined, caused a full production outage.
- Podcasts What I'm listening to regularly - curated picks on DevOps and entrepreneurship.
- BGP Sentinel - Real-time BGP hijack detection How I built a tool that monitors BGP routing tables and detects hijack attempts in real time.
- Secrets Snitcher - eBPF tool for K8s secret access monitoring Open sourced a lightweight eBPF tool that inspects which pods are reading your Kubernetes secrets.
Small Projects
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