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The OSI Model: Not Academic BS - Here's Why It Matters in Production
How understanding the OSI layers saved me 4 hours of debugging and prevented a customer-facing outage
Jul 17 • 
Sharon Sahadevan
SSL/TLS in Kubernetes: The Complete Mental Model
Why I spent 3 months debugging certificate issues that could have been solved in 3 hours with the right mental framework
Jul 16 • 
Sharon Sahadevan
How I Solved a $50K Certificate Outage in 15 Minutes Using OSI Layers
The real story behind the certificate crisis that stumped 3 teams - and how the OSI mental model turned chaos into systematic debugging
Jul 22 • 
Sharon Sahadevan
The Hidden CPU Throttling Crisis in Your Kubernetes Cluster
How a 100-millisecond decision is silently killing your application performance
Aug 10 • 
Sharon Sahadevan
The 3:47 AM Crisis: How OSI Thinking Saved Our Revenue
How did I resolve the issue?
Jul 17 • 
Sharon Sahadevan
Observability vs. Monitoring: A Conceptual Framework
Understanding the philosophical shift from reactive monitoring to proactive understanding in cloud native systems
Jul 15 • 
Sharon Sahadevan
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
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
The Two Hardest Problems in Computer Science
Cache Invalidation Strategies: From Redis Write-Through to CloudFlare Edge - A Production Guide
Aug 31 • 
Sharon Sahadevan
Understanding DNS: The Internet's Navigation System
Mastering DNS: Your Guide to the Internet's Hidden Navigation Network
Apr 10 • 
Sharon Sahadevan
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
Taints and Tolerations: The Kubernetes Bouncer System
A DevOps Engineer's Guide to Node Scheduling and Workload Placement
Jul 10 • 
Sharon Sahadevan
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