SRE @PhonePe
Career
Oct 27, 2026
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6 min read
AI infrastructure could be your next move as a DevOps or SRE engineer. AI can write the app. Running it reliably, scaling it, and keeping costs under control is still an engineering job.
Digest
Oct 24, 2026
2 min read
A compromised certificate authority, practical cloud cost cuts, and six tools to monitor, access, and manage your infrastructure.
Kubernetes
Oct 21, 2026
7 min read
Follow a request through Services, EndpointSlices, kube-proxy, and packet routing to understand how traffic actually reaches the right Pod.
Oct 18, 2026
1 min read
A 500 GB database migration with a rollback path, Docker Hub’s security advisory, and ways to tighten Kubernetes permissions.
Oct 15, 2026
8 min read
The Practical Roadmap to SRE and Platform Engineering
System Design
Oct 13, 2026
How consistent hashing fixes the scaling problem, why virtual nodes matter, and what most system design explanations miss.
Oct 10, 2026
The migration stories, database lessons, security updates, and infrastructure changes that matter more than another tool launch
DevOps
Oct 5, 2026
Boring topic. Extremely useful skill. Read this.
Oct 2, 2026
From Cloudflare’s Rust memory optimisation to failed Postgres migrations, Kubernetes rollout debugging, and the DNS weakness behind an OpenAI jailbreak
Linux
Sep 29, 2026
A practical guide to free -m, page cache, reclaimable memory, swap, pressure, and container memory limits.
Sep 26, 2026
What a year of AWS failures reveals about multi-region architecture, why DuckDB 2.0 is faster, and how teams are reducing monitoring bills without losing visibility
Cloud
Sep 22, 2026
The closest region is not automatically the right region. The real question is whether your workload actually fits there.
Sep 20, 2026
Career progression, architecture trade-offs, 100 TB of saved RAM, and practical DevOps lessons for building safer and more efficient systems
Networking
Sep 14, 2026
BGP can move traffic to another path, but the result depends on failure detection, local policy, and whether the backup route is actually usable.
Sep 11, 2026
The hidden failure modes in cloud software, the infrastructure changes worth tracking now, and why human judgment still matters in AI-powered engineering
Sep 8, 2026
5 min read
The DNS record may be correct, but cached answers, internal DNS policies, or routing can still send users to the old destination.
Sep 5, 2026
From chatbot downtime and crawler traffic to inconsistent VM performance, safer recovery workflows, and practical GitOps tools
Aug 29, 2026
From UUID v7 inserts and Kubernetes FinOps to AI agents in CI/CD - cloud, database, and security lessons.
Aug 24, 2026
How I'd Choose for a New Project
Aug 22, 2026
Database connections, broken probes, cloud-cost discipline, and practical DevOps lessons for engineers running real systems
Aug 17, 2026
Certs Can Get You Interviews, but Skills Get You Hired
Aug 15, 2026
From a one-line Python fix to GPU networking, secure CI pipelines, and the observability gaps hiding inside AI agents
+1
Aug 10, 2026
How Traffic Actually Moves From a VPC to NAT Gateway and PrivateLink
Aug 8, 2026
From OpenAI’s sandbox escape to Prometheus memory waste and million-event telemetry pipelines
Aug 4, 2026
4 min read
PhonePe taught me how to operate critical infrastructure at scale. I left because I needed to learn how to build more of it myself.
