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Architecture

Database Scaling Strategies From Origins to Modern Distributed Systems

Master database scaling with replication, partitioning, and sharding. Learn when to use each strategy, avoid common pitfalls, and explore modern cloud-native solutions.

Jayas Balakrishnan
17 min
12/29/2025
DevOps

Modern Deployment Strategies: A Complete Guide

Master modern deployment strategies from blue-green to canary deployments, feature flags to GitOps. Learn when to use each approach, their trade-offs, and how to deploy with confidence and zero downtime.

Jayas Balakrishnan
35 min
12/21/2025
DevOps

Modern Observability with Prometheus, Grafana & OpenTelemetry

Build a production-ready observability stack with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Tempo. Learn OTLP protocol, collector deployment patterns, and correlation across metrics, logs, and traces.

Jayas Balakrishnan
24 min
12/14/2025
DevOps

GCP DevOps Interview Guide Ace Your Next Cloud Role

Master GCP DevOps interviews with expert guidance on Cloud Build, GKE, Terraform, monitoring, IAM, and SRE practices. Real questions with answers.

Jayas Balakrishnan
21 min
12/7/2025
DevOps

The Twelve-Factor App: Cloud-Native Best Practices

Master the 12-factor methodology for cloud-native apps. Learn each factor with Docker and Kubernetes examples, pitfalls, and practical implementation patterns.

Jayas Balakrishnan
33 min
11/30/2025
DevOps

GitOps with ArgoCD: Kubernetes Continuous Deployment

Master GitOps with ArgoCD for Kubernetes. Learn installation, application deployment, sync strategies, multi-cluster patterns, security, and production best practices.

Jayas Balakrishnan
21 min
11/23/2025
Architecture

Event-Driven Architecture Building Scalable, Decoupled Systems

Master Event-Driven Architecture patterns with AWS services. Learn pub/sub, event sourcing, CQRS, and Saga patterns. Discover when to use SNS, SQS, EventBridge, or Kinesis for scalable, decoupled systems.

Jayas Balakrishnan
16 min
11/16/2025
Architecture

CQRS Pattern: Separating Reads from Writes for Scalable Systems

Master the CQRS pattern from simple code separation to full event sourcing. Learn when to use it, implementation approaches, eventual consistency strategies, and AWS architecture patterns.

Jayas Balakrishnan
20 min
11/9/2025
Architecture

Database Selection Guide: Choosing the Right Data Store

Master database selection from relational to NoSQL, time-series to vector databases. Learn when to use each type, their trade-offs, and how to choose the right database for your workload.

Jayas Balakrishnan
28 min
11/2/2025
BFF Pattern

API Gateway Patterns: Routing Your Way to Scalable Services

Master API Gateway patterns from edge gateways to BFF and service mesh. Learn when to use each pattern, their trade-offs, and how to choose the right gateway architecture.

Jayas Balakrishnan
18 min
10/26/2025
Microservices

Software Architecture Patterns: Choosing the Right Foundation

Master software architecture patterns from monoliths to microservices, event-driven to serverless. Learn trade-offs, decision frameworks, and when to use each pattern.

Jayas Balakrishnan
21 min
10/19/2025
AWS

AWS Snapshots: Complete Guide to EBS and RDS Backups

Master EBS and RDS snapshots from basics to enterprise-scale. Learn AWS Backup, PITR, cross-account strategies, performance optimization, and disaster recovery patterns.

Jayas Balakrishnan
31 min
10/10/2025
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