This week at the office, I had a pretty normal day, but during a chat with one of my friends, they asked me some interesting questions about Go specifically, how Go’s locks, mutexes, and channels actually work under the hood. They were curious about how channels guarantee exactly-once delivery…
in one of my recent projects, I had a need for a message queue to handle background jobs across multiple services. But here’s the thing — this was the first version of my service, and I wanted to keep my Kubernetes cluster simple. I didn’t want to introduce another…
In modern web apps, especially in enterprise-level Angular projects, it’s easy to run into performance issues when handling large datasets, complex calculations, or background processing. One common problem? Your UI freezes because everything is running on the main thread. That's where Web Workers come in. In this…
Lately, I’ve been working on some new projects, and one thing they all have in common is the need for a ton of flexibility — think dynamic filters, custom conditions, user-defined queries, and more. Basically, I needed a way to let users define their own logic without hardcoding every possible…
Logs are one of the fundamental pillars of application monitoring and observability. They are essential tools for debugging and troubleshooting—when something goes wrong, the first thing a software engineer typically does is check the logs. As a DevOps engineer, one of my key responsibilities is to make logs more…
Kubernetes makes it easy to run and deploy applications inside a cluster, but with every convenience, there comes the need for limitations and controls. Kubernetes provides the Network Policy feature, allowing you to control network traffic and enforce network isolation between your pods and services. How can Network Policy help?…
A major part of monitoring applications is managing the flow and wiring of data. When you deal with data, encoding, protocols, and standards come into play to make it easier to transfer, interpret, and ensure others can generate, send, or receive it seamlessly. As I mentioned before, every monitoring challenge…
Monitoring applications is a huge area in DevOps and SRE. You’ll encounter tons of data types, technologies, and tools, which can easily overwhelm you with questions like: What tool should I use? What data should I monitor? What kind of dashboards should I create? Where should I store the…