Grafana Showed My Node Was Out of Memory. It Wasn't.

Two Grafana dashboards, same node, same timestamp - one shows 62 GB used, other shows 10 GB. Both are correct. Here's the full story of how Linux memory actually works and which number you should actually be watching.

April 2026

Kubernetes Local Storage: PVs, Nodes, and the WaitForFirstConsumer Trap

Why your pod is stuck in Pending, why it lands on the wrong node, and how WaitForFirstConsumer fixes local storage scheduling for good.

May 2026

The GNOME Extensions That Made Ubuntu More Fun To Use

A few GNOME extensions that genuinely improved my Ubuntu desktop experience, from useful clipboard history to ridiculous window-burning animations.

June 2026

Deploying Grafana OnCall in an Air-Gapped Kubernetes Cluster

A step-by-step guide to running Grafana OnCall without any egress to grafana.com — using OCI artifacts, init containers, and Kubernetes secrets to deliver plugins in restricted environments.

April 2026

Building a Golang backend system with JWT authentication

When creating a website's backend, one very important term we get to hear is JWT authentication. JWT authentication is one of the most popular ways of securing APIs. JWT stands for JSON Web Token and it is an open standard that defines a way for transmitting information between parties as a JSON object and that too securely...

October 2024

My journey from a CNCF contributor to LFX mentee

August 2024

Kubernetes Statefulsets

In simplest terms StatefulSets are Kubernetes component that is used specifically for stateful applications. These are workload API object used to manage stateful applications. They manage the deployment and scaling of a set of Pods (Creating more replicas or deleting them), and StatefulSets are also responsible for the ordering and uniqueness of these Pods. StatefulSet was released in the Kubernetes 1.9 release, let see K8s Statefulsets in this article...

October 2024

Introduction to Kubernetes Native Policy Management with Kyverno

December 2023

Kubernetes Deployment Strategies

Kubernetes, or K8s, is an open-source container orchestration technology used to automate the manual processes of deploying, managing, and scaling applications with the help of containers. Originally developed by engineers at Google, Kubernetes was donated to the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) in 2015...

June 2024

Beginners guide to Kubernetes namespaces

August 2024