Engineering Resilience
& Reactive Interfaces.
About Me
Hi I am Abbey. I write software and architect cloud systems. For me, engineering is about bringing order to chaos. I believe the best systems are simple, reliable, and built to last. This blog is where I document what I learn, honestly, including the wrong turns
Featured Projects
Lleven V2: Scale & Security
The next generation of the Lleven engine, featuring asynchronous processing, resilient data pipelines, and a secure user identity layer.
Lleven V1: The Genesis
The first version of Lleven, a synchronous processing engine designed to transform raw Mobile Money PDFs into structured spending analytics.
Blog / Thoughts
Building an Autoscaler for Docker Swarm: Inside swarmctl
Swarm gives you `docker service scale` and nothing else. This is how I built swarmctl, a daemon that collects metrics, decides when to scale, executes safely, and coordinates VM scaling with OpenStack.
Running Production Swarm: Serving Containerized Apps Without Kubernetes
Our company is early in its containerization journey, so I started with Docker Swarm instead of Kubernetes. This is the whole architecture: edge, routing, placement, autoscaling, failures, and what I would do differently.
Building a CloudTrail for OpenStack: Why We Chose Loki Over Hermes, Elasticsearch, and Everything Else
There is no built-in AWS CloudTrail equivalent for OpenStack. This is the full story of what already exists, why none of it was quite right, and what we actually built.
Welcome to My Digital Sandbox!
Joe thinks I'm doing some amazing stuff and honestly, he wanted a front-row seat to read about it.