Laxman Patel

Laxman Patel @imlucky883

About: ⚙️ Linux | Kubernetes | Kafka| AWS | Blockchain 🐧 Living on the CLI | 🧠 Curious about everything infra 🧪 Writing about Internals of various tech

Location:
Bangalore, KA
Joined:
Feb 6, 2025

Laxman Patel
articles - 11 total

CNI Demystified: The Backbone of Kubernetes Networking

People can get puzzled when they need to choose one of the available networking solutions for...

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PriorityClass in Kubernetes: The VIP Pass for Your Pods

Imagine you're at an airport, and there's a long queue at security. But suddenly, a VIP with a...

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DaemonSets in Kubernetes - The Silent Guardians of Your Cluster 🛡️

Kubernetes is a bustling ecosystem of pods, services, and deployments. But what about those tasks...

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LimitRange and Resource Quotas: Taming Kubernetes Resource Chaos 🚀

Kubernetes is a powerful orchestration tool, but with great power comes great responsibility. Imagine...

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Kubernetes Probes: The Secret to Self-Healing Applications 🚑

Imagine deploying an application in Kubernetes, only to find that some pods randomly stop working,...

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RBAC in Kubernetes: Understanding Roles, and RoleBindings 🔐

Kubernetes is a powerful platform for managing containerized applications, but with great power comes...

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ConfigMaps and Secrets: Managing Configuration and Sensitive Data in Kubernetes 🔐

Kubernetes is all about running applications at scale, but how do you manage configuration data and...

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The Offset Reset Dilemma: Avoiding Surprise Replays in Kafka

A consumer needs an offset (a bookmark) to know where to start reading from a partition....

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How Data is Stored in Kafka: JSON vs Avro Explained

If you’re new to Kafka, you’ve probably asked yourself: “When a producer sends a record, what does...

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How I Built a Python CLI for Blazing-Fast Crypto Exchange Price Notifications

We’ve all been there — staring at a price chart, switching tabs, doing other work… and boom — the...

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🚀 How I Hosted a Website Locally Using NGINX + Cloudflare Tunnel + Custom Domain

Two days ago, I bought a .cfd domain for ₹89 on impulse. I didn’t have a hosting plan. No VPS. No...

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