Kubenatives

Data Lake vs Data Warehouse vs Lakehouse The Definitive, Practical Guide

Data architecture breakdown: when each model wins (and when it doesn’t)

Oct 20 • 

Sharon Sahadevan

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Scaling Patterns: Your Guide to Vertical, Horizontal & Functional Sharding

How to Scale Your Database and Infrastructure: Master Vertical, Horizontal, and Functional Sharding Patterns.

Oct 12 • 

Sharon Sahadevan

4

September 2025

The Hidden Cost of Abstractions: Why Easy Tools Get Expensive

The fundamental economics of abstraction are working against you

Sep 23 • 

Sharon Sahadevan

1

Queue vs Stream: Understanding the Fundamental Differences

Queue vs Stream Architecture: When to Use SQS, Kafka, and Why Both Use Pull Models

Sep 14 • 

Sharon Sahadevan

1

Vector Databases: Why AI Needs Them and How They're Different from Postgres

Why does your 'AI-powered' search take 3 seconds to find similar documents when Google finds 2 billion web pages in 0.4 seconds?

Sep 1 • 

Sharon Sahadevan

1

Zero Trust: The $4.4 Million Password Problem

How much would you pay for a single password?

Sep 1 • 

Sharon Sahadevan

August 2025

The Two Hardest Problems in Computer Science

Cache Invalidation Strategies: From Redis Write-Through to CloudFlare Edge - A Production Guide

Aug 31 • 

Sharon Sahadevan

2

Secrets vs Encryption Keys: What’s the Difference Really?

secrets and encryption keys are not the same thing

Aug 27 • 

Sharon Sahadevan

1

eBPF + Cilium: Why Your Network Security is Broken (And How to Fix It)

Your Security is Slower Than Your Attacks

Aug 19 • 

Sharon Sahadevan

1

The Hidden CPU Throttling Crisis in Your Kubernetes Cluster

How a 100-millisecond decision is silently killing your application performance

Aug 10 • 

Sharon Sahadevan

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Latency vs. Throughput — Speed Isn't Everything

August 3, 2025 • 6 min read

Aug 3 • 

Sharon Sahadevan

2

July 2025

Kubernetes Affinities: Production Engineer's Guide

You know that sinking feeling when your pods are all crammed onto one node, or when your Redis cache is running three availability zones away from your…

Jul 26 • 

Sharon Sahadevan

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