Blog - Infrastructure, Observability & Distributed Systems

Tech Lead at Volkswagen Group Charging GmbH (Elli), building backend systems for 900,000+ EV charging stations.


I write about infrastructure, service mesh, observability, and the dirty work of making distributed systems actually work in production.


Side projects: matgen.ai (battery materials research), lamp.matgen.ai (AI patent analysis), cheatmeal (full-stack Rust PWA).


Go, TypeScript, Rust. 15 years shipping code. AWS Solutions Architect Professional.

APM for pet projects

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Afanasy Barbarov
Tech Lead

Creating a performance monitoring solution for pet projects.

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Setting up Consul and Nomad in Hetzner cloud

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Afanasy Barbarov
Tech Lead

Simple setup for Consul and Nomad in Hetzner cloud. Applicable to other cloud providers with small adjustments. Obviously, Terraform all the way with some bash-scripting for fun.

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