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Café AWS Architecture Evolution

A five-stage AWS cloud architecture evolution taking a local café from a single €68/mo VPC to a Starbucks-scale global platform serving 10M customers/day across 35,000+ stores. Covers VPC isolation, high availability, decoupled messaging, serverless multi-region, microservices, and global scaling.

EU Border Security Architecture

A conceptual software architecture for a national border security system designed to meet strict EU regulations. The system focuses on high availability, fault tolerance, real-time data processing, threat detection, and secure multi-agency collaboration.

CI/CD Pipeline Automation

A complete CI/CD pipeline for a NestJS application using GitHub Actions, Docker multi-stage builds, Kustomize, and OpenShift. Features automated linting, unit tests, Snyk security scanning, E2E validation, and native blue-green deployment with zero downtime traffic switching across Dev, Staging, and Production environments.

Kubernetes Orchestration & Cluster Management

A comprehensive Kubernetes research project covering declarative pod deployment, resource allocation, service exposure, and configuration externalization via ConfigMaps and Secrets. Includes production-ready YAML manifests for nginx pods, hashicorp/http-echo deployments with environment variables, and cluster troubleshooting methodologies.

Docker Containerization Exercise

An academic exercise on Docker principles and OCI image construction. Covers multi-stage Dockerfile authoring, image layer optimization, bind mounts, container networking, and the distinction between virtual machines and container isolation. Includes a production-ready Dockerfile using Alpine Linux for minimal image footprint.