Tag archive

#kubernetes

Topic-specific entry points for internal linking, discovery, and deeper subject exploration.

8 articles

Cgroup Awareness in Java: Avoiding OOM Kills

Cgroup Awareness in Java If you limit your container to 1GB of RAM but don't configure your JVM correctly, the JVM will try to allocate as much as it sees on the host machine. The Linux kernel will then kill your contain…

Apr 20, 20261 min read

Deep DiveAdvanced Java Mastery

#java#docker#kubernetes

System DesignIntermediate

Kubernetes Networking: What Happens Between the Load Balancer and Your Pod?

Kubernetes Networking for Backend Developers As a backend engineer, you usually stop thinking about a request once it hits the Load Balancer. In Kubernetes, that is just the beginning. Understanding the network hop betwe…

Apr 20, 20263 min read

Deep DiveBackend Systems Mastery

#kubernetes#networking#ingress

AI/MLAdvanced

Kubernetes for AI Inference: GPUs, Autoscaling, Queues, and Cost Control

Kubernetes can run AI inference workloads well, but only if you treat GPU capacity as a scarce production resource instead of "just another Deployment." GPU nodes are expensive, images are large, cold starts are painful,…

Apr 8, 202612 min read

Deep Dive

#kubernetes#gpu#ai infrastructure

System DesignAdvanced

System Design: Building a Secrets Management Platform

Secrets management looks like a simple storage problem until you operate it in production. At first, the requirement sounds like this: "Store API keys and database passwords somewhere safe." Then real systems arrive. Ser…

Apr 8, 202613 min read

Deep Dive

#system design#secrets management#security

AWSAdvanced

Kubernetes in Production: Patterns Every Backend Engineer Must Know

Running a container in Kubernetes and running a production workload in Kubernetes are different disciplines. The gap between kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml and a service that survives node failures, deployment rollouts…

Jun 8, 20256 min read

Playbook

#kubernetes#k8s#devops

JavaAdvanced

Scaling Spring Boot Applications to Handle 10 Million Daily Active Users

10 million daily active users is not an exotic scale — it's where a successful mid-stage startup or a growing enterprise service lands. At this scale, the things that worked for 100,000 users start breaking in interestin…

May 28, 202510 min read

Deep Dive

#spring boot#java#scaling

System DesignAdvanced

Service Mesh with Istio: mTLS, Traffic Management, and Observability

A service mesh solves three problems that grow exponentially with microservice count: security (every service-to-service call should be encrypted and authenticated), reliability (circuit breaking, retries, timeouts consi…

Mar 31, 202512 min read

Deep Dive

#istio#service mesh#kubernetes

AWSExpert

AWS ECS vs EKS: Choosing the Right Container Orchestration

Every team containerizing their workloads on AWS faces the same choice: ECS or EKS? ECS is simpler and tightly integrated with AWS. EKS is Kubernetes — portable, powerful, and complex. Getting this choice wrong means yea…

Mar 25, 20259 min read

Comparison

#aws#ecs#eks