<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Ehsan Ullah — Technical Writing</title><description>Ehsan Ullah (Ahsan Khan) is a Kubestronaut and Cloud, DevOps &amp; AI Engineer — building apps, websites, agentic AI workflows, and self-healing cloud platforms. Available worldwide for freelance, full-time remote, or project-based work.</description><link>https://ahsankhan420.github.io/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>Cutting EKS Costs ~40% with Karpenter and Spot</title><link>https://ahsankhan420.github.io/blog/cut-cluster-costs-karpenter/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ahsankhan420.github.io/blog/cut-cluster-costs-karpenter/</guid><description>A practical walkthrough of right-sizing a production EKS cluster using Karpenter consolidation and Spot instances — without sacrificing availability.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>kubernetes</category><category>finops</category><category>karpenter</category><category>aws</category></item><item><title>GitOps in Practice: Progressive Delivery with Argo CD</title><link>https://ahsankhan420.github.io/blog/gitops-argocd-progressive-delivery/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ahsankhan420.github.io/blog/gitops-argocd-progressive-delivery/</guid><description>Why pull-based GitOps beats push-based pipelines for Kubernetes, and how sync waves plus Argo Rollouts give you safe, automated, reversible deployments.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>gitops</category><category>argocd</category><category>kubernetes</category><category>ci-cd</category></item><item><title>The Three Pillars of Observability, Wired Together with OpenTelemetry</title><link>https://ahsankhan420.github.io/blog/observability-three-pillars/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ahsankhan420.github.io/blog/observability-three-pillars/</guid><description>Logs, metrics and traces stop being silos once they share trace context. A practical mental model for instrumenting microservices with OpenTelemetry.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>observability</category><category>opentelemetry</category><category>sre</category><category>kubernetes</category></item></channel></rss>