Magawa, a Gambian pouched rat capable of detecting unexploded land mines, has discovered many land mines and other items of ordnance left over from the Cambodian Civil War. The rat was awarded the PDSA Gold Medal in Sep 2020, an animal bravery award that acknowledges the bravery and devotion to…

What is Edge Computing? Edge Computing is an architecture in which tasks like data processing, analytics, ML inferencing etc. are performed much closer to the location where it is needed, to reduce latency and save on network bandwidth costs. …

Introduction: Managing Applications in Production has traditionally been a Human-centric affair. Large Ops Teams were tasked with managing the day-to-day operations of the running Apps. …

Flamingos are filter feeders and turn their heads “upside down” to eat. When it’s time to eat, a flamingo will place its head upside down in the water with its bill pointed at its feet. It then sweeps its head side-to-side, using its tongue to pump water in and out…

Fledging is the stage in a flying animal’s life between hatching or birth and becoming capable of flight. All birds are considered to have fledged when the feathers and wing muscles are sufficiently developed for flight. A young bird that has recently fledged but is still dependent upon parental care…

“The Peregrine Falcon is renowned for its speed, reaching over 200 mph during its characteristic high-speed dive, making it the fastest bird in the world, as well as the fastest member of the animal kingdom.” (Source: Wikipedia) Introduction When a Containerized Application is deployed to a Kubernetes cluster, the K8s control…

Both male and female toucans possess large, colorful bills. Their exact purpose isn’t clear, though they’re believed to play a role in the courthship ritual and in self-defense. While its size may deter predators, it is of little use in fighting them. The toco toucan can also regulate the flow…

Woot moment When I was going through the Kubernetes 1.22 release announcement blog, there was a woot moment in it for me. Within the section titled Major Themes, was a brief mention about a new alpha feature titled Node system swap support. My mind re-winded back to the year 2016, when I…

Introduction This blog is a sequel to my previous blog on the same topic: API Authentication using Istio IngressGateway, OAuth2-Proxy and Keycloak. In the previous blog, I discussed a solution to authenticate a user accessing an application or API, using Istio Ingress Gateway, OAuth2-Proxy and Keycloak. In this blog I’ll provide…