Abhinav IttekotStarting a new role as a founding engineerI joined Insight Health as a founding engineer in September.Nov 30, 2023Nov 30, 2023
Abhinav Ittekot9 golden rules for debuggingThere’s more software written today than ever before and the complexity of existing software continues to increase. AI is only going to…Aug 4, 2023Aug 4, 2023
Abhinav IttekotAsking “When not to use” in technical interviewsWhen I began my career, a senior engineer shared his fondness for a particular type of interview question: “When would you not use…” These…Jun 25, 2023Jun 25, 2023
Abhinav IttekotMy best reads in 2022As a software engineer working in the infrastructure domain, I’m going to list the articles/books that have had a huge impact on me in…Dec 30, 2022Dec 30, 2022
Abhinav IttekotThe rise of ARM64 and custom siliconThe rise of ARM64 architecture in the world of computing has been nothing short of remarkable. In just a few short years, ARM64 has managed…Dec 25, 2022Dec 25, 2022
Abhinav IttekotRunning Kubernetes jobs with sidecar containersRecently, I came across an interesting use case of having to run a sidecar container inside a Kubernetes Job. However, there was a…Aug 28, 2022Aug 28, 2022
Abhinav IttekotGetting to 1000 ELO on chess.comI’ve been playing Chess online on chess.com for about a year now and have been long trying hard to get to the elusive 1000 ELO rating…Apr 18, 20221Apr 18, 20221
Abhinav IttekotGranting IAM permissions to pods in EKS using OIDCSay you're using AWS’s managed Kubernetes platform(EKS) and want to deploy an application that requires access to AWS resources like an S3…Jan 30, 2022Jan 30, 2022
Abhinav IttekotWhy HTTP request compression is almost never supportedA while back, I got to work on a bug in the OpenTelemetry collector— the HTTP APIs returned a 400 bad request when clients compressed its…Sep 18, 2021Sep 18, 2021