In Sri Lanka, the common misconception is, if you fail Advanced Level or just pass it without flying colors, your future is doomed. You will then be stuck in a dead end job without ever achieving the success you dreamt of having when you were 10 years old. There are…

This is a controversial topic. Many will blame me. Not every company is like this. But for the majority of companies in Sri Lanka, in the field of Information Technology, this is the bitter truth. Racism, Sexism, and with all the other ‘isms, this too is a serious issue. Imagine…

For years, I have been working with Docker Desktop to build and test images and spin up a local kubernetes cluster when needed. However, in August, 2021 Docker announced that by the beginning of 1st February, 2022 they would begin to place limitations on the free use of its Docker…

Recently, I had a requirement where I wanted a MySQL Cluster which would support automatic fail overs. So one of my colleagues in the project did a good analysis on available solutions and out of those we chose Galera for it’s simplicity. Here is the complete guide on setting up…

By Nilesh Jayanandana and Rovin Shanila Postgres is an excellent database solution and recently, Platformer Team had the opportunity to implement one for production with one of our larger clients. …

This post is based on the use case of setting up kubernetes with kubeadm on a cluster provisioned with CentOS 7 with firewalld enabled. …

Recently, in a project that I’m involved in, there was a requirement to load balance their workloads. Take public cloud, Google, AWS, Azure etc, setting up a load balancer is fairly easy. It’s just a matter of couple of clicks in the console. This is not the case when you…

Google Cloud Build is a really powerful tool. You can configure your entire CI/CD pipeline with it. In this article, I’m going to guide you through on creating a simple CI/CD pipeline with Google Cloud Build and GKE. Pre-requisites You need to have a GCP account. If you don’t sign up…

I’m writing this post because, ever since I published my certificate on Linkedin, I have been getting a massive number of messages from people who wanted tips for the examination. …