Prometheus: Static/Dynamic scraping on EKS
This note is a mental model for how Prometheus discovers and scrapes metrics in Kubernetes. The lens I want to keep throughout is: At a high level there are two ways to tell Prometheus about a /metrics endpoint: Approach 1: Static scrape_config: This is the traditional way: you manually configure a scrape job in prometheus.yaml.The natural questions here are: How…
Leader/Follower relationship with Primary/Replicas
In most of distributed datastore systems, there are a lot of techical terms to describe the behavior of the system. While these terms, like, “Leader”, “Follower”, “Replication”, “Consistency”, etc., are widely used and helpful, what I feel missing are the details about internal relationship between these terms.Analogically, while the map of the field is great,…
Encoding: From the POV of Dataflow paths
When studying Chapter 4 of Designing Data-Intensive Applications (Encoding and Evolution), I quickly encounters a level of granularity that seems mechanical: binary formats, schema evolution, and serialization techniques. Yet behind this technical scaffolding lies something conceptually deeper. Encoding is not merely a process of serialization; it is the very grammar through which distributed systems express and interpret…
Kubecon India : 2025
I attended Kubecon India 2025 held in Hyderabad this year. I mainly focused and attended talks related to Observability and Scalable designs. Now that the sessions are uploaded to Youtube, linking the ones which I really enjoyed. The entire playlist of all the talks is available here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMn8qiLSE0A&list=PLj6h78yzYM2MEQTMX_LIOK1hrePHxLD6U
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