What an incredible September it’s been! This past month, I’ve been diving deep into some cutting-edge tech and exciting new projects. Here’s a quick recap of my highlights:

Cloud-Native & DevOps Adventures:

  • Spearheaded the Email support with AWS SES integrations and came to know about DMARC, DKIM, and SPF configurations.
  • Explored advanced Terraform modules for Cloudflare, focusing on email routing and Google Groups integration.
  • Delved into the intricacies of helm upgrade for existing releases using ksctl/ksctl go package.

Performance & Sustainability Focus:

  • Gained extensive knowledge on RAPL and non-RAPL estimators for energy consumption, tackling challenges in cloud VM environments.
  • Pioneered platform-level addon support, with a successful POC for per-process/container energy consumption metrics.
  • Researched best practices for AI Agent tool creation from Anthropic and dived into Nvidia GPU operator blog posts.
  • Explored the nuances of grid carbon intensity (average vs. marginal) and the core, uncore, and package zones for RAPL.
  • Worked extensively with Kepler, Prometheus, and green metrics, including OCI-based Helm deployments.

System Design & Core Infrastructure:

  • Mastered raw HTTP calling of the K8s API server using rest.Config and rest.Client.
  • Explored devicemapper and thin loop devices, understanding their role in containerd for image storage.
  • Learned about firecracker for secure application delivery and the fascinating gossip protocol.
  • Deepened my understanding of fluxcd metalabels and promQL filtering.

Product Development & Community:

  • Contributed to new UI/UX designs and tackled complex Stripe checkout and quota system edge cases.
  • Explored state machines for real-world project applications.

It’s been a month of intense learning, building, and contributing! Stay tuned for more updates on these exciting developments.

#TechRecap #SeptemberHighlights #Kubernetes #DevOps #CloudNative #GreenTech #SystemDesign #ksctl #AI #LearningAndGrowing