Journey of an IT Architect

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    Computing services: from PaaS to Serverless

    Silicon Valley startups in mid-2000s likely do not run their own IT operations (i.e. renting their own data centre spaces, purchasing their own rack-mounted servers).…

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    GraphQL and gRPC

    Big Picture For inter-process communication at a high level, the two styles are asynchronous and synchronous styles: RPCs, built on top of TCP/UDP, are usually…

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    Build and Manage Kubernetes Clusters

    There are numerous options to build a Kubernetes cluster. If your company has a multi-cloud strategy, most likely you will have to deal with cluster…

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    MinIO for S3-compatible Object Storage

    I reviewed some storage technologies on Kubernetes but they are all for block and file storage. In this post, I will discuss the current available…

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    Kubernetes Storage on Azure 3 of 3 – Ceph by Rook

    In the last two posts, I covered the native storage options on Azure Kubernetes Service, as well as Portworx as an example of a proprietary…

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    Kubernetes Storage on Azure 2 of 3 – Portworx

    In the previous post, we have discussed built-in storage classes on Azure Kubernetes. Further to that, we will examine some third-party software defined storage (SDS)…

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