I've been planning to write an article on this topic for a while, but I've been postponing it for some reason or other. But now that ChatGPT, a new revolutionary AI-based chat assistant, is around, I've asked it to write an article on the same topic. I'm super impressed with…

I hope you've heard the saying: The easiest way to learn from mistakes is to read books; the next best option is to commit them yourselves. I agree with the quote above and acknowledge the importance of reading books, but I'd like to add some flavour to the above quote…

I started reviewing apps on my phone this weekend and started cleaning them up as some of them have been sitting idle on my phone for a long time. This encouraged me to review existing subscriptions with some of my apps and write this article on my favourite apps/tools that…

And thanks to you Ravi for taking time to read and comment. It encourages me to write more (ofcourse not on finance). Btw, I think Indian market is gold and I'd strongly recommend you to re-rlook into investing in India.

There is a saying in the stock market that while a bull market can make some money, a bear market can make you rich! I’m not an active investor nor a qualified financial advisor, but the recent economic slowdown and the current bear market sparked my interest in the stock…

You may wonder why an Infrastructure(I) and an Operations(O) Engineer write an article about communication. Especially about patience because operations (not necessarily technical operations) work is usually reactive, no matter how well we are prepared in terms of Systems and People's availability to deal with the situations. We are used…

We all have been hearing about the what and why of DevOps for more than a decade now but I rarely come across how DevOps works at scale. This article provides some insights on how DevOps is implemented at scale from my experience. I've been doing Infrastructure(I) and technical Operations(O)…

I’ve been in technical operations for a long time; with the changing needs of the IT industry, the roles have changed and so the titles for the same work.. Here is my story so far.. I started as Systems Engineer at a big company where I worked for about 5…

In this post, I’m going to talk about how we performed an in-place upgrade of Istio in production from 0.7.x to 1.0 without any downtime. In our setup, we use Istio as an ingress controller only and not as a service mesh yet. So, use this method with caution. …