Field notes on cloud architecture.
Practitioner-first. No theory, no hype.
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Architecture trade-offs
The decisions that actually move the outcome — high availability, network performance, security posture.
02
Presales war stories
Anonymized lessons from the rooms where requirements meet real architecture decisions.
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Patterns across teams
The frameworks, anti-patterns, and trade-offs I see repeat across cloud engineering orgs.
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About
I’m Daanial Farrukh — a cloud presales solutions architect based in Pakistan, with 9+ years across cloud, networking, and security.
My day-to-day is spent between engineering teams, customers, and the architectures they’re trying to build on cloud. I sit in the rooms where requirements meet real architecture decisions — high-availability design, network performance, security trade-offs, and the presales conversations that decide what gets built.
This site — Quabin — is where I write about that work.
You’ll find field notes on the frameworks I use, the patterns I see across teams, and the trade-offs that change the outcome of an architecture review. Always anonymized. Always practitioner-first. No theory, no hype.
If you’re an architect, CTO, or engineer building real systems on cloud — you might find something useful here.
Contact
The best way to reach me is on LinkedIn.
I check DMs daily.
If you’ve got something specific in mind:
- Article feedback or a war story to share — DM me on LinkedIn or comment on any post.
- Speaking, podcast, or interview inquiry — LinkedIn DM with audience and topic in your first message.
- Presales architecture questions — informal advisory calls. LinkedIn DM with a one-line summary.
I read everything. I reply to most.