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.
Blogs
Backing Up and Restoring Redis on Kubernetes
How to backup and restore Redis on Kubernetes using RDB snapshots - and why just copying dump.rdb is not enough.
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.
Deploying CERNBox's federation stack on Kubernetes
A build log: running CERN's file sync-and-share middleware on Kubernetes, two independent instances federating over OCM, and proof that the shared file never leaves its origin.
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.
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.
Terminator Terminal: Every Shortcut and Feature You Need to Know
A complete cheat sheet for the Terminator terminal emulator covering all keyboard shortcuts, broadcast mode, layouts, plugins and launch options.
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...
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...
