AWS Nitro Architecture and Performance Tuning
AWS Nitro System components, per-generation (v2–v6) networking changes, ENA driver/kernel requirements on EKS nodes, and PPS/CPS-focused performance tuning strategies
AWS Nitro System components, per-generation (v2–v6) networking changes, ENA driver/kernel requirements on EKS nodes, and PPS/CPS-focused performance tuning strategies
Cilium ENI mode architecture, Gateway API resource configuration, performance optimization, Hubble observability, BGP Control Plane v2 deep-dive guide
Resolving SR-IOV VF naming inconsistencies on NVIDIA DGX H200 systems running Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes through driver compatibility, persistent naming, and systemd orchestration.
Deep optimization strategies for minimizing inter-service communication latency and reducing cross-AZ costs in EKS. Covers Topology Aware Routing, InternalTrafficPolicy, Cilium ClusterMesh, AWS VPC Lattice, and Istio multi-cluster
Comprehensive guide for Amazon EKS production operations covering networking, Control Plane, security, cost optimization, and more
A complete guide for adopting Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes: architecture, configuration, networking, DNS, GPU servers, cost analysis, and Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)
Analysis of EKS Hybrid Nodes Node/Pod CIDR routing requirements, CNI NAT configuration limits, CGNAT (100.64.0.0/10) support, and the Hybrid Nodes Gateway architecture that removes the Pod-routing requirement.
Compares Istio multi-cluster, Cilium ClusterMesh, and Amazon VPC Lattice architectures for East-West (service-to-service) communication across EKS clusters along four axes — functionality, stability, operability, and cost — with guidance on which environment suits each and a migration path from Istio
Compares data plane architecture, mTLS, L7 policy, observability, performance overhead, and operational complexity of major service mesh solutions on EKS, with workload-specific selection criteria
Reference for implementing authentication, rate limiting, IP control, URL rewrite, header manipulation, session affinity, body size limits, and custom error pages as YAML across AWS LBC, Cilium, NGINX GF, Envoy Gateway, and kGateway
NGINX Ingress Controller EOL response, tiered gateways for agentic workloads, Gateway API architecture, GAMMA Initiative, AWS Native vs open source solution comparison (AWS LBC, Cilium, NGINX Gateway Fabric, Envoy Gateway, kGateway, Kong), Cilium ENI integration, migration strategy and benchmark plans
Best practices for DNS optimization, East-West traffic, and Gateway API adoption in EKS environments
Guide to diagnosing EKS networking issues - VPC CNI, DNS, Service, NetworkPolicy
Single definition of the Agentic AI Platform gateway layers: Tier 1 Ingress, Tier 2 Inference Routing (Inference Extension) and LLM API Gateway, and the Agent Data Plane — their role separation and how to fill each layer
A benchmark report comparing network and application performance of VPC CNI and Cilium CNI across 5 scenarios (kube-proxy, kube-proxy-less, ENI, tuning) in an EKS environment