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#32 Uptime Sync: PgBouncer, Kubernetes Health Checks, and the Production Mistakes That Take Services Down

Aug 22, 2026

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#32 Uptime Sync: PgBouncer, Kubernetes Health Checks, and the Production Mistakes That Take Services Down

Database connections, broken probes, cloud-cost discipline, and practical DevOps lessons for engineers running real systems

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Career

Which DevOps Certs Are Worth It in 2026

Aug 17, 2026

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Which DevOps Certs Are Worth It in 2026

Certs Can Get You Interviews, but Skills Get You Hired

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Digest

#31 Uptime Sync: P99 Breakthroughs, AI Agent Blind Spots, and Infrastructure at Massive Scale

Aug 15, 2026

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#31 Uptime Sync: P99 Breakthroughs, AI Agent Blind Spots, and Infrastructure at Massive Scale

From a one-line Python fix to GPU networking, secure CI pipelines, and the observability gaps hiding inside AI agents

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Networking

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AWS  Networking

Aug 10, 2026

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AWS Networking

How Traffic Actually Moves From a VPC to NAT Gateway and PrivateLink

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Digest

#30 Uptime Sync: AI Agents in Production, Telemetry Blind Spots, and the Scale Problems Nobody Sees

Aug 8, 2026

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#30 Uptime Sync: AI Agents in Production, Telemetry Blind Spots, and the Scale Problems Nobody Sees

From OpenAI’s sandbox escape to Prometheus memory waste and million-event telemetry pipelines

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Career

Why I Left a Large Company for a Startup

Aug 4, 2026

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Why I Left a Large Company for a Startup

PhonePe taught me how to operate critical infrastructure at scale. I left because I needed to learn how to build more of it myself.

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Digest

#29 Uptime Sync: Region Switches, Kafka Performance, and the Kubernetes Failures

Aug 1, 2026

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#29 Uptime Sync: Region Switches, Kafka Performance, and the Kubernetes Failures

Game-day traffic recovery, 10 billion webhooks a month, AI cost controls, and the production issues that appear only when systems are under pressure

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Linux

Linux Processes That Do Nothing, Explained

Jul 29, 2026

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Linux Processes That Do Nothing, Explained

States, Threads, I/O Waits, and /proc Deep Dive

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Digest

#28 Uptime Sync: The Security Gaps, Database Regressions, and Failovers That Hurt in Production

Jul 26, 2026

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#28 Uptime Sync: The Security Gaps, Database Regressions, and Failovers That Hurt in Production

From compromised release branches and silent PostgreSQL defaults to chaos-tested Kubernetes operators and high-availability systems that still brown out

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Networking

How TLS Works - Deep Dive

Jul 22, 2026

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9 min read

How TLS Works - Deep Dive

Inside the TLS Handshake: How Certificates, Key Exchange, and Latency Shape Your HTTPS Performance

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat
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