The OPA Performance Investigation: A Systematic Journey Through Policy Optimization

What happens when you stop guessing and measure? A systematic, reproducible look at Open Policy Agent performance across deployment modes—from CLI to Kubernetes.

August 14, 2025 · 9 min · 1708 words · Mannu Silva

So I built a blog

I’ve been thinking about starting a blog for years. Finally got around to it. Not because I think the world desperately needs another tech blog, but because I keep having conversations about software engineering, team management, and the weird intersection of technology and business that make me think “huh, maybe other people are dealing with this too.” Why now After 24 years of building software—first as an engineer, now managing teams at Kyndryl—I’ve accumulated a bunch of opinions about how this stuff works. Some of them might even be right. ...

January 13, 2025 · 3 min · 560 words · Mannu Silva