Vaibhav Soni — Notes from the trenches 2026-05-14T12:33:22.053Z https://vaibhavsoni21.vercel.app/ Vaibhav Soni Deploying AI PoCs: what an infra engineer actually owns https://vaibhavsoni21.vercel.app/blog/ai-poc-infra-ownership 2026-04-18T00:00:00.000Z Scope contract for deploying AI proof-of-concepts when you don't own the model. Jenkins, Sonar gates, Nginx, TLS, and where the line is. Vaibhav Soni Building Production-Grade Kubernetes Clusters on DigitalOcean https://vaibhavsoni21.vercel.app/blog/kubernetes-digitalocean-production 2024-01-10T00:00:00.000Z Step-by-step guide to deploying a highly available Kubernetes cluster with Apache Kafka and ZooKeeper on DigitalOcean. Vaibhav Soni Pinning Asterisk: when docker commit beats a Dockerfile https://vaibhavsoni21.vercel.app/blog/asterisk-docker-commit-image 2023-11-04T00:00:00.000Z Client needed an exact-version Asterisk calling server. The clean Dockerfile path lost — runtime state forced a different approach. Vaibhav Soni