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DevOps

Stop Managing HTTPS Certificates Manually

Nov 17, 2025

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7 min read

Stop Managing HTTPS Certificates Manually

Caddy's on-demand TLS provisions certificates in real-time - the automation layer most DevOps teams don't know exists.

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Kubernetes

Helm vs Kustomize: When to Use Each

Nov 14, 2025

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3 min read

Helm vs Kustomize: When to Use Each

Helm for packaging. Kustomize for customization.

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

System Design

Your "Microservices" Architecture Is Killing Your Startup

Nov 11, 2025

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3 min read

Your "Microservices" Architecture Is Killing Your Startup

Monoliths are boring. But boring ships faster than distributed systems.

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Linux

Understanding Fork Bombs in Linux

Nov 10, 2025

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3 min read

Understanding Fork Bombs in Linux

Fork bombs are six characters that crash Linux in seconds.

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Cloud

7 Cloud-Native Architecture Patterns You Should Know

Nov 7, 2025

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4 min read

7 Cloud-Native Architecture Patterns You Should Know

Seven battle-tested cloud-native architectures that separates great engineers

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Linux

Your Container Didn't Crash Because of Docker

Nov 6, 2025

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4 min read

Your Container Didn't Crash Because of Docker

cgroups v1 has been sabotaging your resource limits for years

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Networking

NAT Is the Only Reason the Internet Still Works

Nov 4, 2025

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3 min read

NAT Is the Only Reason the Internet Still Works

Without it, we'd have run out of addresses 20 years ago.

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Networking

Your Website Depends on This One System

Nov 1, 2025

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4 min read

Your Website Depends on This One System

And why a DNS failure can take your site offline

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Linux

One Partition Full. Another Empty. Here’s the Real Problem.

Oct 29, 2025

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3 min read

One Partition Full. Another Empty. Here’s the Real Problem.

Traditional partitions waste storage. LVM fixes that.

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Linux

Yes, Your Server Is Limited to 65K Connections

Oct 26, 2025

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3 min read

Yes, Your Server Is Limited to 65K Connections

But not the way you think

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

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