DR. ATABAK KH

Cloud Platform Modernization Architect specializing in transforming legacy systems into reliable, observable, and cost-efficient Cloud platforms.

Certified: Google Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, MapR Cluster Administrator

Research, Thoughts and Experiences

Welcome to my research collection focused on cloud computing, DevOps, and software engineering.

DevOps August 2025

Cloud Run: Concurrency, Min/Max Instances, and Cold Start Tuning

Problem: Either you pay too much (min too high) or you get tail latency (min too low). Balance it.

gcp cloudrun performance
Cloud August 2025

Cut Cloud Costs 20-30% with p95-Driven Scaling (No Rewrites)

Most teams scale on CPU averages. That’s easy-and often wrong. Align autoscaling with your p95 latency SLO instead.

reliability finops sre
ComputationalBiology August 2025

From GO to GNNs: A Practical Guide to Gene Function Prediction (2025)

Takeaway: For robust GO prediction, start with homology + PLM baselines, add label smoothing on PPI, and only then graduate to GNNs/multimodal fusion.

bioai Protein Function Computational algorithm
ComputationalBiology May 2025

Hierarchy-Consistent Inference for GO Predictions

Problem. Independent multilabel classifiers for Gene Ontology (GO) often violate the ancestor rule: if a child term is predicted “on,” all its ancestors must also be on. Curators then fix...

bioai Protein Function Computational algorithm
DevOps April 2025

SLO Burn-Rate Alerts that Don't Page You at 3am (Unless They Should)

Goal: page for user pain, not random metric spikes. Burn-rate alerts do that by measuring how fast you’re spending the error budget for your SLO.

sre slos alerts
ComputationalBiology March 2025

A Reproducible Pipeline for GO Function Prediction

Goal: Make results re-runnable and comparable (CAFA-style).

bioai Protein Function Computational algorithm
FinOps February 2025

Cost-to-Serve in 30 Minutes: A Practical Quickstart

Takeaway: You don’t need perfection-just a directionally correct cost per request/job.

finops bigquery analytics
Cloud January 2025

Hadoop/Oracle -> BigQuery: 7 Pitfalls That Blow Up Cost (and Fixes)

Context: BigQuery is fast to adopt-and easy to overspend on. Here’s a comprehensive checklist I use in migrations to avoid common cost pitfalls.

bigquery data-platform migration
FinOps December 2024

Terraform Guardrails that Save Real Money (and Incidents)

Takeaway: a handful of Terraform patterns prevent surprise spend, reduce pager incidents, and make audits easy.

finops terraform governance
ComputationalBiology October 2024

Benchmarking Gene Function Prediction: Pitfalls & Fixes

Purpose: A short checklist to avoid inflated or unstable GO results.

bioai Protein Function Computational algorithm
ComputationalBiology September 2024

Easy Wins with Network Label Smoothing for Function Prediction

Idea: One smoothing step over a normalized PPI graph can yield consistent gains before you build a full GNN.

bioai Protein Function Computational algorithm
ComputationalBiology August 2024

Protein Language Models for GO: A Hands-on Starter

Takeaway: Frozen PLM embeddings + linear classifier = strong, fast baseline for GO prediction.

bioai Protein Function Computational algorithm
Cloud June 2024

Privacy-First Cloud Audits in the EU - No PII Needed

Takeaway: You can cut cost and improve reliability/observability without any access to PII or raw logs. Here’s the artifact-only method I use.

cloud modernization privacy gcp
Software December 2021

4 common architecture solutions

A short overview on 4 common architecture solutions

Basic ideal solutions

Cloud DevOps
Cloud November 2021

Cloud Migration in a simple way

How to itemize cloud migration phases.

Cloud Migration in a simple way

Digital Transformation Cloud DevOps
Agile May 2021

Digital Transformation with Agile + DevOps Culture

How Foster a Collaborative Environment.

Digital Transformation with Agile + DevOps Culture

Digital Transformation Agile DevOps
Agile April 2020

Accountability on Resilience Engineering

How accountability will be proposed in Resilience Engineering approach.

Accountability on Resilience Engineering

Agile Accountability Resilience Engineering
Agile April 2020

Team structure

What might be the best structure for a product development team?

Agility on product

Agile Team Structure Product Development
Devops October 2019

Containerize dotnet project

Config and build dotnet core project on docker container

Most of the time, dotnet developers setup and configure a windows server and then occupy the entire server for a single project or a micro service project using web services....

Docker CI/CD Dotnet Core
Spark September 2019

Clusterized Spark

Build a cluster of spark engines

Apache Spark is an engine for Big Data processing. One can run Spark on distributed mode on the cluster. In the cluster, there is master and n number of workers....

Docker Spark Machine Learning
Devops October 2018

Kubernetes in an easy way

Config and build a K8S environment

Before going thorugh configuration and build of kubernetes packages, we should install minikube or Kubernetes. My primary goal was to try Kubernetes on VMs the simplest way. I have chosen...

Kubernetes Docker CI/CD
Devops August 2018

Docker Container Networking

Multicontainer Docker - Networking and Compose

Docker containers and services do not even need to be aware that they are deployed on Docker, or whether their peers are also Docker workloads or not. Whether your Docker...

Docker docker-compose Docker Network
Devops August 2018

Docker Compose vs Swarm

Multicontainer Docker - Docker compose vs Docker swarm

What is Docker Compose

Docker docker-compose Docker Network
Devops June 2018

Dotnet Core on LXD and Kubernetes

Automated Deployment of .NET Core micro-services on LXD via Kubernetes

This document shares an experience on setting up Kubernetes and then configuring your .NET Core application into your cluster. It will also help automate your deployment using a Kubernetes cluster...

Dotnet Core LXD Kubernetes
Agile September 2017

Agile with Mosquito concern

Do agile but don't forget the main MOSQUITO criteria

Why Agile?

Agile Team leading
Spark August 2017

Hadoop Spark via docker

preparing environment for Hadoop, Spark, Scala and pyspark.

This document would share an experience on setting up dockerized master-slave hadoop and spark on top of them. Then config your environment and listen to steaming data. It will also...

Spark Bigdata Docker
ComputationalBiology April 2017

Protein function prediction

Automate detection of functionality of protein via genome sequence

WHAT IS PROTEIN FUNCTION? The meaning of organic capacity is vague, and the correct significance of the term fluctuates in view of the setting in which it is utilized. Clearly...

Protein Function Computational algorithm

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About

Dr. Atabak Kh is a cloud platform engineer specializing in modernization, observability, and cost optimization. His research focuses on practical approaches to improving system reliability and reducing cloud costs through data-driven methods.

Current areas of interest include p95-driven autoscaling, privacy-first cloud audits, and SLO-based alerting systems.

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