cgroup drivers and how kubelet and containerd works together
The story of a particularly confusing bug in my kubeadm implementation and how I solved it
Sreeram Venkitesh
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How I'm tracking my life with Jira in 2026
Silly experiment for productivity dopamine
Year in Review - 2025
A retrospect on 2025
Building my homelab
Building a Kubernetes cluster with Raspberry Pis
How does Kubernetes calculate the age of resources?
A code walkthrough of how creationTimestamp is created and consumed
How to contribute to Kubernetes in 2025
Frequently asked questions about getting started contributing to Kubernetes
Conference Speaking 101
Everything you need to know to get started with giving talks
Improving the Validation of Static Pods in Kubernetes
My KubeCon EU 2025 experience
A summary of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2025 in London
Easier ways to rewrite history with git
Using git like how senior engineers should
Cherry picking commits to previous releases in Kubernetes
Notes on running the cherry-pick script for backporting PR merged into master to previous release branches
Feature gates and feature gate graduation
In this post we look at how to work with feature gates in the Kubernetes, how you can add new feature gates and how you can graduate existing feature gates from Alpha to Beta
How to fix leader re-election in consul clusters
Manually fixing consul cluster's leader re-election
How to run Kubernetes using kind with a custom build of containerd
My local Kubernetes development setup when I want to make changes to the container runtime as well
More tips for finding a good software engineering job
Things I learnt about job hunting during the second half of 2024 where I quit my job and found a new one
Year in Review - 2024
A gratitude journal entry for everyone who was in my life this past year.
The podUtil.VisitContainers function in Kubernetes
Explaining the VisitContainers function in pkg/api/pod/util.go in the Kubernetes source code
Building and running Kubernetes with kind
My local Kubernetes development setup
Label matching in ReplicationControllers and ReplicaSets
Understanding how ReplicaSets work in Kubernetes
Layer 4 load balancing and TLS termination on Kubernetes
Some notes on StartTLS, exposing PostgreSQL databases outside Kubernetes clusters at the TCP layer and TLS termination
Understanding Kubernetes internals by building your own cluster
Blog version of my talk at Kubernetes Community Days Kerala, 2024
On Finding Purpose in Work and Life
We all attribute the purpose of our lives to something. For some its their work or their craft. For others its the people in their lives, children and so on. We all need to define a purpose for our actions and need something to look forward to.
Is docker really “Build once, run everywhere”?
Learning how await waits only for promises, the hard way
How to deploy your Rails app using Capistrano
Write automated deployment scripts for your Rails applications and manage multi-server deployments
What it means to be good at your software engineering job
Retrospect after 9 months working full time as a software engineer
Initial server setup with Ubuntu 20.04 for deploying your Rails project
Different ways to deploy your Rails application
Introduction to the Rails in Production series of posts
Rails in Production
An end-to-end devops guide for your Ruby on Rails projects
Intermediate Rails
What to learn after you've got your basics down
Making a simple blog application in Rails with Devise
In this post, we add a blog functionality to our sample app we had made in part one
Using devise for user authentication in Rails
A quick guide to setup user authentication in your Rails applications using Devise
Using services in your Rails projects
Services can be powerful tools to optimize your code make your life easier
Ruby on Rails development tidbits
Some sweets tricks to make your Rails app development easier
How I manage my bookmarks productively
The mental framework I use to store and organize my bookmarks in Google Chrome
How to do a git rebase
Rebasing in git essentially rewrites the history and puts your commits to the top of the commit tree
Resources for Emulation Development
Writing your own emulator for a video game console is a great side project idea, and is one of the best ways to learn CPU architecture and design
Notes on CSS Preprocessing, Tailwind and React
Understand what we are actually doing when setting up Tailwind in your React project
Tips for finding yourself a good software job
Things I learnt about job hunting during the Covid 19 lockdown when I taught myself web development and landed an internship
Errors, the architect of life
A random shower thought about code, evolution and the mistakes we make in our lives