<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Amal Zacharia | Platform Engineer</title><description>Self-taught infrastructure engineer specializing in distributed systems and bare metal Kubernetes. This is my story and my work.</description><link>https://amalzacharia.com/</link><item><title>200,000 Connections. One Contractual Floor. Two Years.</title><link>https://amalzacharia.com/blog/200k-connections-contractual-floor/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://amalzacharia.com/blog/200k-connections-contractual-floor/</guid><description>How I held 200,000 persistent WebSocket connections above a hard 75% uptime floor for two years, as a solo operator, on a cluster I was setting up for the first time.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Five Clusters. Five Lessons. One Production System.</title><link>https://amalzacharia.com/blog/five-clusters-five-lessons/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://amalzacharia.com/blog/five-clusters-five-lessons/</guid><description>How I rebuilt my Kubernetes infrastructure five times, and what each version taught me.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>