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How to Achieve High-Availability in Databases?

If you are a doctor treating a patient and want access to her medical record, you’d want the details to be available at all times. If it’s an emergency case, there can be absolutely no Read more…

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Dealing with Data Ownership in a Distributed System

Distributed systems encourage you to break apart data and services. This means you’ve to think about data ownership in a distributed system more deeply as compared to a traditional system. The common advice tends to Read more…

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Fixed Window Rate Limiting Algorithm – A Simple Implementation

Fixed Window Rate Limiting algorithm is the simplest algorithm for applying rate limits out there. Though this algorithm may not be the best choice for large-scale distributed systems, understanding it is useful because it clarifies Read more…

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How to use Kubernetes Storage Class for Dynamic Provisioning?

PersistentVolumes & PersistentVolumeClaims make it quite easy to provision persistent storage in Kubernetes. They shield the developer from dealing with the underlying storage technology. However, a cluster admin has to provision the actual storage up Read more…

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4 Must-Know Strategies for Code Reuse in Software Engineering

Code reuse between multiple services is a hotly debated topic in software engineering. You have some people fighting tooth and nail to prove that DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) is the way to go. On the Read more…

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What you must know about Rate Limiting?

Rate limiting is the concept of controlling the amount of traffic being sent to a resource. How can you achieve this control? By means of a rate limiter – a component that lets you control Read more…

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A Simple Guide to Kubernetes Persistent Volume Claim

In this post, I introduce the concept of Persistent Volume Claim in Kubernetes. This is an extremely important concept for managing the storage needs of your applications running on Kubernetes. 1 – Why the need Read more…

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Setting up a Kubernetes Locally with K3S and Multipass

K3S is a CNCF-certified Kubernetes offering by Rancher that’s designed to be lightweight when compared to K8S. To achieve this, they removed a lot of extra drivers that weren’t needed as part of the core Read more…

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Understanding the Kubernetes HostPath Volume

Kubernetes HostPath Volume is a type of persistent storage available to your Kubernetes Pods. In earlier posts, we saw Kubernetes emptyDir Volume & also using a git repository as a Kubernetes Volume. In both of Read more…