A comprehensive list of the most essential Kubectl commands — Kubectl (Kubernetes command line tool) is a tool for running commands on Kubernetes clusters. It can be used to deploy applications, manage cluster resources and do so much more. When working with Kubernetes, you will often need to perform several operations such as creating, updating, and destroying containers. …

New to Prometheus? Let’s explore its data types and Query Language — Monitoring is the process of watching the important variables of the system and alerting is making sure you get some sort of notification when those variables go out of bounds. One of the most popular monitoring tools is Prometheus. The most common for an alerting system is to have a…

What size of the company should you choose? — I have previously worked at ARM which has around 10,000 employees, I have built a startup from the ground up which had 5 employees, and worked in another more mature start-up that has 20 employees. I am currently working in a Fintech that has around 500 employees. Company size does…

What is a data-intensive application — A data-intensive application deals with data on a massive scale, such data sizes may reach up to multiple petabytes of raw data. The workflow of data in a data-intensive application starts with data generation. Where new data is created or old pre-existing data is either updated or deleted. This change…

Moving to senior can be sometimes difficult, here is what I have learned — Getting promoted might be slightly easier in the beginning than more so down the line. Getting promoted from junior software engineer to mid-level may be kind of straightforward, but moving to senior will require a bit more reflection and work. …

A short introduction to Stable Diffusion with a simple-to-follow step-by-step tutorial and final image results — What is Stable Diffusion Finally, after a long wait, the long waited the open-source release of Stable Diffusion is out! With it being released for academic purposes machine learning lovers from all over the world can grasp a much better understanding of how the code to this magnificent text-to-image converter works under the hood…

The essence of event-driven architectures by a professional software engineer — Event-driven architectures (EDA) are becoming more and more widely used. They allow for high decoupling of the system which makes it overall higher in quality. EDAs use events to trigger and communicate between services in modern microservice architectures. The 3 main components of an EDA are a producer, a router…

The fundamentals of machine learning systems explained by a professional software engineer — I have recently been reading designing machine learning systems by Oreilly (which you can buy here). And I have been also working with data scientists in my team which made me start questioning a lot of things about machine learning systems and classical software systems. They are both complex in…

The fundamentals of monitoring & alerting explained by a professional software engineer — Monitoring is the process of becoming aware of the state of the system. There are 2 types of monitoring, proactive and reactive. Essentially, you can watch visualizations on graph boards and analyze them yourself. You will want notifications when certain conditions about the system’s state get triggered, for example, if…