About

I’m Malayil Vivekanandan. I work on cloud infrastructure and security, with a focus on building systems that stay dependable under real-world stress. I’m especially drawn to Linux internals, scalable platform design, and the everyday practice of SRE.

This site is where I slow down and write through what I’m learning and applying. Some posts are deep technical notes, some are practical “how I approach this” walkthroughs, and some are reflections on what changed my mind after seeing something fail (or succeed) in production. My goal is simple: make complex infrastructure and security work clearer, more repeatable, and easier to reason about.

Hope is not a strategy.
― Betsy Beyer

What I Do

I design, build, and secure cloud-native systems. Most of my work sits at the intersection of infrastructure, security, and process: how systems are operated, how risk is reduced, and how teams can respond calmly when things go wrong.

I’m interested in:

Why This Blog?

Writing helps me think. It forces decisions, exposes gaps, and turns “I kind of know this” into something I can explain and repeat.

This blog exists to:

What You’ll Find Here

You’ll find a mix of:

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