Cloud Architecture
Multi-cloud and hybrid design — landing zones, cost control and resilience that survives the incident.
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Dale Martenstyn.
Cloud architect & engineer. I design, build and write about the infrastructure that keeps things running — from Kubernetes clusters to the keycaps on my desk.
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Cloud Architect & Engineer
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- Kubernetes & containers
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Observability & SRE
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Latest writing
Notes on cloud architecture, engineering and the tools in between.
- 15 Oct 2026
Hello, world
A fresh site for a fresh corner of the internet — what this is, and why it looks like my terminal.
- 08 Oct 2026
Terraform state, without the tears
Remote backends, locking and the three rules that keep a shared Terraform state from becoming a group project gone wrong.
What I work on
The corners of the stack I spend most of my time in.
Kubernetes & Containers
Clusters that survive contact with production. Scheduling, upgrades and the boring parts done right.
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform / OpenTofu modules you can actually trust — state management, drift and reviewable changes.
Observability & SRE
Signals over noise. SLOs that mean something and dashboards people will actually read.