Autoscaling Kubernetes pods have never been more straightforward with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA). HPA added an intuitive abstraction to effortlessly scale up or down pods dynamically based on some target metrics. However, according to the documentation, the HPA fetches these target metrics from the aggregated APIs, namely metrics.k8s.io, custom.metrics.k8s.io, and…

Disclaimer: This read is for the “Medium Writer Challenge” and thus deviates from my usual technical reads and tutorials that you may otherwise find in my Medium profile. “Hurry up! We will be late for the evening aarti prayer”. My mother used to bring me along with her to this…

Why on Kubernetes? From the numerous advantages that Kubernetes offers, I particularly find it beneficial to deploy HDFS on K8s because of the ease of scalability K8s provides and requires fewer management tasks. Data is ever-increasing, and one needs to have a stable and easy horizontal scalable architecture to accommodate terabytes of data…

Exploring the world of MapReduce, I landed on the MapReduce documentation page of MongoDB. The first thing that is mentioned there is An aggregation pipeline provides better performance and usability than a map-reduce operation. So here I am thinking - “should I carry-on exploring the MapReduce method of MongoDB or…

LOGS. When it comes to logging, developers have to go an extra mile by inserting those log lines in their application code and also make sure their infrastructure can handle huge log ingestion to maintain scalability. The benefits? …

Disclaimer: This is not a game review but my thoughts after playing Shadow of the Colossus. Please do not read this article if you’re planning to play the game as it contains spoilers. “Shadow of the Colossus” quickly became an influential title after its release on Playstation 2 consoles back…

Few months back we started containerising our application’s micro-services and planned to do deployment on Kubernetes rather than on traditional Virtual Machines. Deploying apps on a managed Kubernetes service like Amazon EKS or Google’s GKE is relatively easy as the cluster setup and housekeeping are taken care by them and…