PinnedNilesh JayanandanaFailure to Launch: Don’t treat Developers as LabourersThis was a story I wrote back in 2020 and chose not to publish. But I changed my mind.9 min read·Apr 16, 2022--6--6
PinnedNilesh JayanandanaPrivate University, A second chance in lifeIn Sri Lanka, the common misconception is, if you fail Advanced Level or just pass it without flying colors, your future is doomed. You…5 min read·Feb 25, 2018--17--17
PinnedNilesh JayanandanaOffer Salaries for skills, Not for the university attended.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…2 min read·Jun 28, 2018--3--3
Nilesh JayanandanaReplacing Docker Desktop with Podman and Kind in MacOSFor years, I have been working with Docker Desktop to build and test images and spin up a local kubernetes cluster when needed. However, in…3 min read·Aug 23, 2022--1--1
Nilesh JayanandanaHighly Available MySQL with Galera and HAProxyRecently, I had a requirement where I wanted a MySQL Cluster which would support automatic fail overs. So one of my colleagues in the…4 min read·Oct 21, 2019--1--1
Nilesh JayanandanaPostgres In Production with Patroni & TimescaleDB— Our ExperiencesBy Nilesh Jayanandana and Rovin Shanila6 min read·Sep 4, 2019--1--1
Nilesh JayanandanaKubernetes on CentOS 7 with FirewalldThis post is based on the use case of setting up kubernetes with kubeadm on a cluster provisioned with CentOS 7 with firewalld enabled. I…7 min read·Jun 15, 2019--5--5
Nilesh JayanandanaOn-Prem Solutions — load balancing with HAProxyRecently, in a project that I’m involved in, there was a requirement to load balance their workloads. Take public cloud, Google, AWS…4 min read·Feb 27, 2019----
Nilesh JayanandanaCI/CD with GKE and Google Cloud BuildGoogle 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…5 min read·Feb 12, 2019--8--8
Nilesh JayanandanaHow I passed the CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) ExamI’m writing this post because, ever since I published my certificate on Linkedin, I have been getting a massive number of messages from…6 min read·Feb 6, 2019--22--22
