Technobabble

Technobabble

Allons-y !

Sep 23, 20214 min read

I fancy myself as a bit of a polyglot when it comes to programming languages. I have used a few over the years. More recently, I have been playing with Go and I like what I see. The design decisions resonate with me - smaller surface area, structs wi...

Kubernetes services and Azure load balancers

Sep 5, 20213 min read

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) makes use of many core Azure resources to provide the necessary functionality. In this post, we'll take a look at how Kubernetes LoadBalancer services and Ingress are mapped to an Azure Load Balancer. Cluster creation ...

Exploring linux underpinnings of containers

Aug 31, 20211 min read

Some time ago, I played around linux primitives that power containers and documented my learnings on Github. Hope it proves useful to someone trying to do the same. https://github.com/shikshan/containers

Two node Kafka development cluster using docker

Aug 31, 20211 min read

Here is a docker-compose yaml file to start a two Kafka cluster and kafdrop ui for a quick local development setup. # STARTING UP: docker-compose up --remove-orphans -d # STOP: docker-compose down # CHECK LOGS: docker-compose logs -f -t version: '3' ...

Setting up a Kubernetes cluster in Azure

Aug 27, 20214 min read

All the major cloud providers provide managed Kubernetes services these days that are an apt choice for production environments. I was curious about the mechanics of cluster setup and therefore created a tiny two node cluster in Azure using Kubeadm ...

Protocol translation in NestJS microservices

Aug 19, 20211 min read

Making async microservices talk to clients that use "standard" web-friendly API protocols (think mobile and web applications) requires protocol translation. Here is a very simple idea, inspired by nats proxy project, on how to achieve it in NestJS wi...