Ideas that shape platforms.
Architecture thinking, engineering decisions, and hard-won lessons from building India's sovereign cloud platform — written by the people building it.
Zero trust is not a product. It is an architecture decision.
Why “zero trust” has become a marketing term — and what it actually requires across four layers: machine identity (SPIFFE), policy-as-code (OPA), mTLS (Istio), and dynamic secrets (Vault).
Engineering
Why we chose GitOps as the only control plane — and never looked back
The decision to make GitOps the exclusive mechanism for all platform state — including cost policies and ML environments.
February 2026 · 8 min read
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AI & ML
The case for self-hosted ML infrastructure in regulated industries
When your training data represents years of competitive advantage, sending it to a third-party cloud is a risk most organisations haven’t measured.
February 2026 · 15 min read
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Platform
Multi-tenancy done right: from network to billing
Most platforms offer tenant isolation at the application layer. AravaliStack enforces it from the network namespace to the billing dashboard.
January 2026 · 10 min read
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Engineering
Why cost intelligence should live in your CI/CD pipeline
The moment engineers can see the cost impact of a deployment before it goes to production, infrastructure economics change.
January 2026 · 7 min read
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Platform
Why we named the platform after India's oldest mountain range
The Aravali range has been standing for over a billion years. Here’s what that means for how we think about building infrastructure.
December 2025 · 6 min read
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Coming Soon
Disaster recovery without the theatre
How we built an AI-driven DR simulation that runs real failover scenarios without touching production.
April 2026
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