Karthikeyan Shanmugam (Karthik) is an experienced Solutions professional with around 20+ years of professional experience across various industries. He is also contributing author at various technology platforms.
Getting Started With Kubernetes at the Edge
Gartner estimates that only 10% of data is produced and handled outside of traditional data centers today. Because of the rapid spread of the internet of things (IoT) and increased computing power ...
10 Best Practices Worth Implementing to Adopt Kubernetes
We already know that Kubernetes is the No. 1 orchestration platform for container-based applications, automating the deployment and scaling of these apps and streamlining maintenance operations. However, Kubernetes comes with its own ...
Maintaining Data Consistency Across Microservices
When microservice applications are built as a set of modular components, they are easier to understand, simpler to test and effortless to maintain over the life of the application. They enable organizations ...
What is Service Mesh and Why Do We Need It?
In a microservices ecosystem, usually cross-cutting concerns such as service discovery, service-to-service and origin-to-service security, observability and resiliency are deployed via shared asset such as an API gateway or ESB. As a ...
How to Use Minikube to Create Kubernetes Clusters and Deploy Applications
In my previous post, I introduced the Kubernetes platform and discussed some key concepts. Now we are going to create new Kubernetes cluster using Minikube, a lightweight Kubernetes implementation that creates a ...
What is Kubernetes?
This is the second in a series of four articles on how to implement service mesh for applications running on Kubernetes. The first installment, “What are Containers and Why Do We Need ...
What Are Containers and Why Do We Need Them?
Containers have been around since the early 2000s and architected into Linux in 2007. Due to containers’ small footprint and portability, the same hardware can support an exponentially larger number of containers ...