Becoming a Better Techops Engineer

Configuring Your CDN for Efficient Static Content Delivery

If you are configuring a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to speed up your static content, it can be tricky to choose the correct settings for caching and…

Oct 7 • 

Hrishikesh Barua

July 2025

How To Share Outage Updates That Don’t Confuse Everyone

Communication is a key part of the Ops engineer's toolkit. One of the more difficult parts of our communication is having to share updates during an…

Jul 7 • 

Hrishikesh Barua

March 2025

What I Wish I Knew Before Starting an Ops Career

Every few weeks, the Reddit DevOps and SRE subs throw up the same questions:

Mar 24 • 

Hrishikesh Barua

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February 2025

Computer Networking : The Hidden Multiplier for Your Ops Career

Understanding Computer Networking makes you a better Ops/SRE engineer

Feb 9 • 

Hrishikesh Barua

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January 2025

Beyond Technical Skills - Getting to the Next Level

Moving ahead in your career depends on how well you can acquire certain non-technical skills

Jan 8 • 

Hrishikesh Barua

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August 2024

Rolling Out a Robust On-Call Process to Your Team

What is the best way to roll out an on-call schedule to your team?

Aug 27, 2024 • 

Hrishikesh Barua

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July 2024

Using Helm’s Post-Renderer To Inject Magic

The popular Kubernetes deployment tool Helm has a post-renderer flag that lets you make changes to the chart on the fly before deploying.

Jul 10, 2024 • 

Hrishikesh Barua

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April 2024

Software Defined Networking – a Short Introduction

In this article, I’ll briefly explore Software Defined Networking (SDN) and network virtualization, and how you can play around with it on your own.

Apr 19, 2024 • 

Hrishikesh Barua

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February 2024

How the Domain Name System Uses Anycast for Low Latency

In this article, I will explore what Anycast is in internetworking and how it is used to optimize response times.

Feb 26, 2024 • 

Hrishikesh Barua

January 2024

Links - January 2024

A list of articles and projects from January that I found interesting.

Jan 29, 2024 • 

Hrishikesh Barua

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Optimizing Your Google Kubernetes Engine Costs - Part 2: The Bin Packing Problem

Understand the bin packing problem and approaches to solve it.

Jan 17, 2024 • 

Hrishikesh Barua

2

December 2023

Links - December 2023

A list of articles and projects from December that I found interesting.

Dec 21, 2023 • 

Hrishikesh Barua