https://malsharbaji.com/blog Thoughts on platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps. en https://malsharbaji.com/blog/gitops-rds-user-management How we eliminated shared database passwords and manual credential management by building a GitOps workflow where every database user, privilege, and schema change is a versioned SQL migration -applied automatically via Kubernetes Jobs with zero static credentials. Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://malsharbaji.com/blog/gitops-rds-user-management https://malsharbaji.com/blog/managing-github-at-scale Part 3 of our migration story. How we built a self-service platform to manage 400+ repositories, 27 teams, and security policies across our GitHub organization using Terraform. Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://malsharbaji.com/blog/managing-github-at-scale https://malsharbaji.com/blog/choosing-github-comprehensive-comparison Part 2 of our migration story. We compare GitHub and GitLab across cost, pipeline performance, security, and developer experience to explain why GitHub was the right choice. Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://malsharbaji.com/blog/choosing-github-comprehensive-comparison https://malsharbaji.com/blog/embracing-change-bitbucket-to-github The story of why and how we migrated from BitBucket and our self-hosted CI/CD system Estafette to GitHub, and the limitations that drove the decision. Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://malsharbaji.com/blog/embracing-change-bitbucket-to-github