Better Software

SW Engineering 101

An informal essay, from nearly 20 years in the trenches

Kubernetes and Container Run-times

On the trail of Linux namespaces and sandboxed containers…

Apache Cassandra — The minimum internals you need to know

For effective data modeling and comparison…

REST is not the Best for Micro-Services GRPC and Docker makes a compelling case

For quite a long time, when Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and WebService were the talk of the tech town, most of the software systems were built using SOAP and related WSDL technology. I…

Using Apache Cassandra — A few things before you start

Interface GRPC with Web using GRPC-Web and Envoy (possibly the best way forward)

The path forward to access a GRPC server directly via browser seems to be Google’s grpc-web project; though it uses Envoy Proxy internally.

End to End Testing in MicroServices

First things first. Testing is just a (small) part of SW Quality; It is not the whole. Everyone knows this. I know it too. I should. But then like everything, after some time, you lose the essence, the spirit; and focus on the lesser characteristics like test…

Cassandra in Kubernetes

Headless Services, KubeDNS, Init Containers, Lifecycle hooks and other K8s concepts on the way

There is pretty good and standard documentation regarding deploying Cassandra in K8s as a Stateful Set…