From Huffman to OpenObserve: Why Your 10GB Log File Fits in 3GB
Every SRE has run gzip on a log file and watched 10GB collapse into 3GB. It feels like magic. It is not. It is a handful of very old, very simple ideas about redundancy, and once you …
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Tech Blogs
Welcome to my collection of technology-focused posts — a space where I share:
- ☁️ Insights on Cloud Computing
- 🐳 Thoughts on Containers & Kubernetes
- ⚙️ Practical DevOps practices
- 🛠️ Tools, tips, and technical deep dives
Whether you’re just starting out or already deep in the tech world, I hope you’ll find something here that sparks curiosity or helps you build better. 🚀
One Valkey, Multiple Tenants: Per-Database Isolation on Kubernetes
How Valkey 9.1.0’s per-database ACL selector lets you run multiple microservices off one shared cache instance, with hard access boundaries between them.
Stop Asking for a DevOps Roadmap. Read This Instead
People who reach out to me and ask “give us a roadmap of becoming a DevOps engineer” or “what was your roadmap” - I go blank. What was my roadmap? I end up saying: learn Docker, K8s, …
The Curious Case of Docker Hardened Images
Docker Hardened Images went free and open source in late 2025. Here's what they actually are, why Docker built them, and whether they belong in your production stack.
The Curious Case of Request and Limit on AWS EKS Fargate
If you’re running containers on AWS EKS with Fargate, you might have encountered a surprising reality about how billing works. Let me share a scenario that trips up many engineers: The …
The Most Practical Way to Get Started on AWS: Build a Producation Grade Cloud Setup
When people say ‘learn AWS,’ it’s easy to get lost in a sea of services. In reality, most real-world architectures start with a VPC, subnets, instances, storage, and permissions. In this …