Principles of Cloud Native design - 12 Factor apps

Principles of Cloud Native design - 12 Factor apps

The twelve-factor app principles are a collection of best practices for building microservices-based cloud-native applications. These applications are modular, scalable, and agile. They are designed to perform at web scale and provide high resiliency.

August 12, 2022 · (updated February 5, 2024) · 11 min · Pradeep Loganathan
GitOps

From Code to Cloud : The Rise of GitOps in Automated Deployments

GitOps is a methodology for continuous deployment using a Git repository as the single source of truth. The repository contains the YAML manifests or Helm charts for the Kubernetes resources to be created. The Git repo is used to store, track and version control changes to these YAML files.

July 7, 2022 · (updated December 25, 2023) · 11 min · Pradeep Loganathan
WebAssembly, WASM and WASI

WebAssembly - From Browser to Cloud

WebAssembly(WASM) is a low-level assembly-like language that is designed for efficient execution and compact representation. WebAssembly systems interface(WASI) is a runtime specification and a standard for WebAssembly interaction with the operating system.

July 4, 2022 · (updated February 5, 2024) · 8 min · Pradeep Loganathan
Azure Event Grid - Introduction

Azure Event Grid - Create Custom Events

Azure Event Grid is an eventing back plane that enables event-driven and reactive programming. In this blog post series we will understand Azure Event Grid and look at developing an event driven application using Azure Event Grid as the backplane

June 24, 2022 · (updated February 2, 2024) · 5 min · Pradeep Loganathan
Azure Event Grid - Introduction

Azure Event Grid - Creating a Topic

Azure Event Grid is an eventing back plane that enables event-driven and reactive programming. In this blog post series we will understand Azure Event Grid and look at developing an event driven application using Azure Event Grid as the backplane

June 23, 2022 · (updated February 5, 2024) · 1 min · Pradeep Loganathan
Azure Event Grid - Introduction

Introduction to Azure Event Grid

Azure Event Grid is an eventing back plane that enables event-driven and reactive programming. In this blog post series we will understand Azure Event Grid and look at developing an event driven application using Azure Event Grid as the backplane

June 22, 2022 · (updated February 5, 2024) · 4 min · Pradeep Loganathan

Cloud Native Summit - Secure your supply chain

I had the pleasure of presenting a lightning talk at the Cloud Native summit at Wellington - New Zealand . The session was recorded and is here

June 18, 2022 · (updated December 24, 2023) · 1 min · Pradeep Loganathan
Knative Fundamentals

Knative - Fundamental concepts

Knative focuses on three key areas - building an application, serving traffic to it, and enabling applications to easily consume and produce events. This post looks at the fundamental concepts of Knative such as Knative Serving, Knative Eventing and Knative build. It also looks at the details of service, configuration, Revision and routes which are part of Knative Serving. It looks at the details of Messaging, Channel, Subscription, sources and sinks which are part of Knative eventing.

May 20, 2022 · (updated December 25, 2023) · 7 min · Pradeep Loganathan
Platform engineering with Backstage

Internal developer portals with Backstage

Backstage is an open source tool for building Internal developer portals. It improves the overall developer experience by delivering the core features of a developer portal, such as Software Catalogs, templates, and documentation.

May 3, 2022 · (updated February 2, 2024) · 10 min · Pradeep Loganathan
Kubernetes Storage Architecture

Kubernetes Storage architecture

Kubernetes Storage concepts Applications that run on Kubernetes can be stateless or stateful. Kubernetes abstracts away persistent storage from ephemeral pods and containers. Kubernetes provides the ability to dynamically create storage resources. The Kubernetes storage architecture is based on volumes as the primary abstraction. Volumes are created and managed by Kubernetes. It is bound to pods and containers. Volumes are attached to the nodes where the pods and containers are running....

April 27, 2022 · (updated December 26, 2023) · 8 min · Pradeep Loganathan