by Karthickraja durairaj | May 12, 2026 | Automation, General
Introduction Modern IT operations have changed dramatically over the last decade. Infrastructure has evolved from a few static servers into highly dynamic ecosystems powered by containers, cloud platforms, microservices, and distributed databases. Yet many operations...
by Karthickraja durairaj | Apr 7, 2026 | Automation, Databases
Introduction — When Healthy Pods Still Cause Slow Databases Modern database platforms are no longer limited to simple query processing. Systems built around MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB increasingly rely on background workers for replication, change data capture...
by Karthickraja durairaj | Mar 10, 2026 | Automation, Databases, General
Introduction Modern organizations are increasingly adopting container platforms to run their applications and backend services. One such platform is Red Hat OpenShift, which is built on top of the open-source container orchestration system Kubernetes. While the...
by Karthickraja durairaj | Feb 3, 2026 | Automation, General, MySQL
Introduction A DBA’s honest story about production, pressure, and finally having guardrails If you’ve worked as a DBA in production for a few years, you’ll eventually learn a quiet truth that nobody really prepares you for: When things go wrong in the database,...
by Karthickraja durairaj | Dec 30, 2025 | Automation, Databases, General
Introduction: Modern infrastructure is built on containers and Kubernetes, but databases still remain the hardest components to operate reliably. As Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), our responsibility is not just to deploy MySQL, but to ensure it remains available,...
