Journal
Product announcements, press releases and the occasional longer essay on enterprise architecture, Kubernetes and building sovereign infrastructure from within the GCC.
Announcement
The Bahriya Kubernetes Engine now has a dedicated site, and its installation and operation documentation is public — the same pages our customers operate from, readable before you buy.
Announcement
console.maml.uk is open to everyone: licences for BKE and Kipchak Enterprise, versioned documentation and ticketed support in one place — and a 14-day BKE trial you issue yourself,...
Announcement
BKE 2.0.0 moves the Kubernetes minor and, by design, nothing else. It also brings cluster login through your own identity provider and configuration you own, with upgrades that...
Announcement
kipchak.dev has been redesigned as a full product site, and the Kipchak Enterprise tier now has a published roadmap, published licence terms and support through the Mamluk Console....
Article
Handing a customer-facing product to the IT department — and to an IT manager — is a category error, not a resourcing decision. IT engineering selects, integrates and...
Article
The industry took a word coined to remove a wall and turned it into a department. Splitting development from operations damages a business the way a body would...
Article
A full tour of the enterprise WAF for Kipchak — the rule model, the OWASP defaults, geo and ASN matching, rate limiting and diagnostics.
Announcement
Subashi Pro 1.25 resolves country and ASN from databases bundled with the middleware — no API key, and no network call while a request is in flight.
Press Release
Bahriya, the first public cloud provider built in the United Arab Emirates, today exited early access. Container deployment, Managed Valkey and Managed Memcached are generally available across four...
Article
Two years of copilots, agents and pilots, and the delivery numbers have barely moved. Three reasons: the tool does not travel left to right, nobody agreed what the...
Press Release
Bahriya, the first public cloud provider built in the United Arab Emirates, today launched Managed Valkey — an enterprise in-memory data store engineered in Dubai, with bring-your-own-key TLS,...
Press Release
Mamluk LLC-FZ has completed the relocation of its registered entity from Sharjah Media City to Meydan Free Zone in Dubai, a logistical move that places the company in...
Announcement
We are closing the public 7x service on 1 September 2026 to focus on Bahriya and the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine.
Announcement
Kipchak v3 ships with PHP 8.5 and still maintains compatibility with 8.4.
Article
CAP theorem to the reality of distributed container ecosystems: Consistency, Availability, Performance, and Tolerance of Network Failures as four dials wired to each other, not a menu you...
Article
A new availability zone with a local flag on it is not sovereignty. Real control means owning the distribution, the operators and the people who get paged at...
Announcement
Bahriya - an Edge Container Cloud from Bahriya is now live and accepting early access users.
Press Release
UAE-based Mamluk LLC today announced a fully managed on-premise Kubernetes offering, run by GCC-resident engineers on the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine, for organisations that cannot send their data offshore....