• Sep 2022 — Observing the UK Economy

    technical   economy web3 defi blockchain

    Sep 2022 — Observing the UK Economy Originally published on Medium, 12 October 2022. It is early October 2022 and the market sentiment towards the UK economy is negative. This writeup aims to chronicle the events that has led to this market outlook. These observations are meant to study various...

  • Web3 — Why and How-to

    technical   web3 crypto blockchain

    Web3 — Why and How-to Originally published on Medium, 28 January 2022. I have been following the discussions around Web3 with genuine interest. The recent holiday season allowed me time to do a bit of reading on it — so here is a summary of that study. Spoiler alert —...

  • Zero Downtime Deployments

    technical   kubernetes deployment iaas paas

    And Example of Zero Downtime Deployment Overview Kubernetes based platforms like OpenShift support zero downtime deployments using advanced deployment strategies like: Blue-Green Deployment A/B Deployment Proxy shard / Traffic Splitter Most of these patterns require that your application supports [N-1 Compatibility]1 An Example Step 1. Login using CLI oc login...

  • Evolution of PaaS

    technical   kubernetes policy iaas paas

    Evolution of Platform as a Service Overview Three well known cloud service models are: IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service PaaS: Platform as a Service SaaS: Software as a Service IaaS and SaaS are well understood models. Though as linux containers go mainstream, the PaaS model is ever evolving. PaaS provides...

  • Policy Management in Cloud Native Environment

    technical   kubernetes openshift programming opa policy

    Policy Management in Cloud Native Environments Overview In very simplistic terms, there are three (3) things involved in policy mananagement. Policy is a set of rules that governs the behaviour of the service. Data is the available information to evaluate the policy against. Service is seeking clarification if we should...