MirahLabs Engineering Blog
Technical insights, tutorials, and architectures written by our design and backend engineers.
Monitoring Flask Applications with Prometheus and Grafana
Learn how to instrument a Flask application with Prometheus metrics, build a Grafana dashboard, and set up alerting rules that notify your team before users notice problems.
Designing for Failure: Chaos Engineering with Chaos Monkey
Netflix's Chaos Monkey intentionally kills production systems to build teams and infrastructure that are genuinely resilient. Learn how to implement chaos engineering principles in your own stack.
CI Pipeline Optimization: Cutting Build Times by 70%
Slow CI pipelines kill developer momentum. Learn how to use layer caching, parallelization, test splitting, and selective testing to cut your pipeline from 20 minutes to under 6.
Infrastructure Drift Detection with Terraform and Driftctl
Manual console changes bypass Terraform states, creating security risks. Learn how to use driftctl to scan your cloud accounts and detect infrastructure drift automatically.
Kubernetes Pod Autoscaling: HPA, VPA, and KEDA Explained
Kubernetes offers multiple autoscaling mechanisms. This guide explains Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, Vertical Pod Autoscaler, and KEDA for event-driven scaling with practical examples.
Secrets Management in CI/CD: HashiCorp Vault and GitHub Actions
Hardcoded secrets in code or CI logs are a leading cause of security breaches. Learn how to use HashiCorp Vault and GitHub's secrets engine to manage credentials securely.