Published in The Startup·Nov 3, 2022Member-onlySo You Want To Be A Senior Engineer!There are a lot of buzzwords in our industry floating around to address a Senior Engineer ranging from “Senior Software Engineer” to “Senior Developer” to “Principal Engineer” to “ Staff Engineer” to “Tech Lead” to “Code Ninja” that it can get really hard to distinguish what they do, but almost…Technical Leadership7 min readTechnical Leadership7 min read
Published in Microsoft Azure·May 4, 2021Member-onlySecure your Microservices on AKS — Part 3 — The Network !Okay so far the other 2 articles cover The basics — Deploying a Spring Boot Microservice on AKS using Terraform and Azure DevOps Identity & Governance — Using Azure AD Pod Managed Identities to access Azure resources without having to manage credentials and to use Azure Policy for observing governance…Kubernetes10 min readKubernetes10 min read
Published in Microsoft Azure·Apr 19, 2021Member-onlySecure your Microservices on AKS — Part 2In the first article, we created a very simple Spring Boot App, dockerized it and deployed that to an Azure AD managed AKS cluster using Terraform and Azure Devops. In this article, we continue and make our setup more secure by Using Managed Identities to access Azure Key Vault which…Kubernetes12 min readKubernetes12 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Mar 31, 2021Member-onlyRunning Your Microservices Securely on AKSAzure offers different ways to build & run your microservices ranging from Service Fabric to Azure Kubernetes Service to App Services to Azure Spring Cloud to even running Docker Enterprise and Apache Mesos in IAAS mode on Azure — the choice of compute depends on a lot of factors not…Spring9 min readSpring9 min read
Published in The Startup·Sep 15, 2020Member-onlyKafka on Azure Kubernetes Service, Part 2Calling it Part2, but this is indeed the third post in our series of running Kafka on AKS, or any flavor of Kubernetes: Blog Post One— Running Kafka on Kubernetes Blog Post Two— Monitoring Kafka via Prometheus & Grafana. The rationale behind calling it Part 2 is that you would…Kafka12 min readKafka12 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Jun 9, 2020Member-onlyApache Kafka in AzureApache Kafka has seen great adoption across different verticals & industries and has indeed become the de-facto choice when it comes to data streaming, building real-time big data pipelines or even communicating asynchronously b/w your trendy microservices. In this article, we compare and have a quick look at the various…Apache Kafka9 min readApache Kafka9 min read
Published in The Startup·Apr 3, 2020Member-onlyAzure Functions + Docker + JavaI don’t really want to re-iterate and focus on the fact that Microsoft loves Linux (whether it is about shipping a full linux kernel in Windows10 or supporting Linux Workloads on Azure or open sourcing PowerShell, VS Code or contributing to open source for that matter) You may think what…Azure8 min readAzure8 min read
Published in The Startup·Jan 15, 2020Member-onlyYACR: Yet Another CKAD ResourceThere is an abundance of tips & tricks for clearing the coveted CKAD exam by CNCF — so why I’m going to the trouble of writing one more ? Because I seriously believe it will not waste your time ! First & foremost, do not forget to read the official…Ckad7 min readCkad7 min read
Published in The Startup·Dec 9, 2019Monitoring Kafka on Kubernetes with PrometheusThis is the second blog is our series of “Running Kafka on Kubernetes” — for context and initial setup, readers are encouraged the read the first entry to be able to setup Apache Kafka on Azure Kubernetes Service with enabled end-to-end encryption. “Everything fails, all the time !” …Kubernetes10 min readKubernetes10 min read
Published in The Startup·Dec 4, 2019Member-onlyRunning Kafka on Azure Kubernetes ServiceYes, Kubernetes was not designed for Stateful workloads. Yes StatefulSets and PersistentVolumes can be hard to reason about. Also when Kesley HighTower cautions against running stateful applications on kubernetes, it makes us wonder if this is worth trying. On the other hand, Confluent — the awesome company behind Kafka —…Kubernetes9 min readKubernetes9 min read
