As you dive deeper in the world of containers, microservices and kubernetes, there are more technologies, tools and concepts that come up frequently in the discussion which didn’t exist a few years back. In one conversation on cloud native solutions, you will hear a number of new terms like knative, fluentd, fargate, helm etc and … Continue reading Exploring Service Mesh with Istio
Containers are the new teenagers on the block. With the amount of flexibility in deployment and isolation from the underlying host it brings, containers are now being looked at seriously by many organizations. Many customers that I interact with, are now working on making their applications ‘cloud native’, and shifting workloads from the VM world … Continue reading Kubernetes – The Basics
In the first part of this blog entry, we looked at what big data is, and what are the main pillars of the solution – Hadoop, MapReduce and Yarn. These technologies form the basis of many big data solutions. Let’s look at these technologies and how are they used in the field of big data … Continue reading Big Data – The Basics (Part 2)
Take a good book to bed with you, books do not snore – Thea Dorn Since the Covid lockdown, everyone I know has doubled down on their reading habits. Reading has been an activity that has entertained, amused and supported many of us all these years, but during the last few months, it has really helped people channel … Continue reading 6 books that I love
In 2002, the term web 2.0 emerged. It was a time of rapid evolution of web and how people interacted with it. Coupled with ever increasing internet speed, it also popularized a new way of talking to the internet – by sharing your own content. So far, the web meant passively interacting with websites that … Continue reading Big Data – The Basics (Part 1)
With a little bit of discomfort, I woke up at 3 AM last night. I went to the bathroom and came back to my bed. Ten minutes passed by and I realized I was still awake. I stared at the ceiling fan for sometime, even thought of getting up and reading a book. Instead, my … Continue reading The Wonder-drug we all need (more)
Industrialization was truly a remarkable development for human beings, factory productions and the idea of consumerism. With the help of machines, factories could now increase their output multifold and more number of people could afford products that were earlier out of their reach. Machines could now complete tasks that were earlier done by one or … Continue reading AI vs ML vs Deep Learning
Over the years we have come to love Google as a search engine and a de facto home page for browsers for many of us. The ability to find the desired info from a heap of available data can truly be an empowering and time saving experience. Such experience when extended to business can help … Continue reading Elastic Stack – The Basics
Alibaba Cloud is an increasingly well known brand in the world of public cloud. Founded in 2009, Alibaba Cloud (hereon referred to as ‘ABC’) spent a few years in establishing dominance in China before expanding to rest of the world. With close to 45% market share in public cloud in China, ABC is also the … Continue reading Getting certified on Alibaba Cloud platform
It’s Tour De France season, and hence a lot of my time is being spent in watching the stages unfold on TV while the cyclists pedal away to their absolute physical limits. While sitting comfortably on my sofa watching the TV, I use the remote control regularly to increase/decrease the volume and some other operations … Continue reading API Gateway – The Basics
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