Hi there,

It's been a while since my last update. The blog has been quiet, but I've been writing and speaking in a few new places I wanted to share.

Over the past few months, I published two articles based on lessons from operating large-scale reverse proxy infrastructure:

USENIX ;login: Design Tradeoffs at the Edge: Lessons from Operating a Large-Scale Reverse Proxy Practical lessons from managing high-scale reverse proxy infrastructure, covering connection management, HTTP parsing, service discovery, and observability at millions of requests per second.

InfoQ: When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale How optimizations that work at small scale fail under high load, and why the most damaging failures aren't glamorous. Real incidents from operating large proxy fleets.

I'm also speaking at RSAC 2026 on Monday, March 23:

Beyond Zero Trust: Continuous Validation for Modern Enterprise Security Why static Zero Trust is insufficient, and how Multidimensional Continuous Validation re-evaluates trust throughout each session using mTLS, SSO, and runtime signals. Co-presenting with Sanjay Singh.

If you're at RSAC, come say hi!

You can find all of this and more at startwithawhy.com.

Best,

Mitendra