Istio Service Mesh on AWS EKS

Istio on EKS: mTLS and Zero Trust in Production

🔒 Istio Service Mesh on EKS: A Field Report on mTLS and Zero Trust Implementation New assignment, new context, new challenges. If you follow this blog, you know my background leans heavily toward Access Management — years spent implementing OIDC flows, SAML, operating authentication platforms in production within the banking sector, all with a strong Java development component and a growing Ops sensibility. That’s what led me to write the previous articles on Quarkus, hexagonal architecture, and TRusTY. ...

March 8, 2026 · 20 min · 4208 words · lostyzen
Scoop Windows Package Manager

Scoop: the Windows Package Manager Without Admin Rights

🚀 Scoop: The Windows Package Manager That Revolutionizes Tool Installation 🎯 Introduction As a developer or IT professional on Windows, you’ve probably experienced this frustration: installing a new tool requires administrator rights, pollutes the Windows registry, or worse, installs unwanted bloatware. Scoop changes the game by offering a revolutionary approach to package management on Windows. Scoop isn’t just a package manager, it’s a philosophy: installing applications in a portable, clean manner without administrator privileges. Gone are invasive installations, welcome to a controlled ecosystem! ...

October 14, 2025 · 7 min · 1294 words · lostyzen