Reflection on my first year and life at CloudRaft

Tejaswita’s first year: Moving to fast pace learning and growth

Learn how to manage a Raspberry Pi fleet with Ansible and Semaphore, automate configuration and deployments, and simplify DevOps management of distributed edge devices.

Managing Raspberry Pi Fleet using Ansible and Semaphore

Best Runbook Automation Tools in 2026: Semaphore vs Rundeck vs Commercial Alternatives.

Top Runbook Automation Tools

Jev is TypeSafe AI’s System One model that returns typed decisions with calibrated probabilities instead of free-form text. This guide covers its top use cases—content moderation, routing, scoring, agent guardrails—and shows how tasks previously handled with VLMs can now be done faster and more reliably with Jev.

Top Use Cases of Jev: Fast AI Decisions for Content Moderation, Routing, Scoring & Agent Guardrails

Learn how to optimize PostgreSQL performance for write-heavy workloads using OrioleDB. Compare PostgreSQL table bloat, VACUUM overhead, storage usage, and maintenance performance, and see how OrioleDB works with CloudNativePG on Kubernetes.

PostgreSQL Performance Optimization: Faster Write-Heavy Workloads with OrioleDB

Trace the evolution of AI-native software engineering from prompt engineering to graph engineering, and understand which layer solves your development challenges.

Evolution in AI Native Software Engineering: Prompt to Graph Engineering

Apache Airflow is powerful, but it comes with real operational cost. This guide compares Airflow and Dagu to help engineering teams choose the right workflow orchestration tool for their pipelines, AI agent workflows, and DevOps automation.

Apache Airflow vs Dagu: Choosing the Right Workflow Orchestration Tool for Your Team

Discover how SaaS companies can build enterprise-ready software that runs securely in customer VPCs, private clouds, and air-gapped Kubernetes clusters.

Cloud Native Software Distribution for Enterprise AI

Reflection on the future of work, hiring, company Culture and business from my first ever KubeCon Experience. 

The KubeCon Journal: An HR Perspective

A technical guide on how to build a simple multi-agent system using LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith. This hands-on guide covers agent orchestration, state management, routing, observability, and common challenges in production workflows.

Building Multi-Agents system with Langchain

Practical OpenTelemetry strategies for optimizing metrics, logs, traces, and observability costs at scale.

OpenTelemetry Observability Guide: How to Optimize Metrics, Logs, and Traces at Scale

Learn how to enable AI features in self-hosted Grafana OSS using Grafana Assistant and MCP Server for AI-powered observability, investigations and faster SRE workflows.

AI Features in Grafana: AI Assistant, MCP Server & AI-Powered Observability

Learn how to perform zero downtime PostgreSQL upgrades on Kubernetes using CloudNativePG (CNPG). Explore rolling upgrades, high availability, replication strategies, backup considerations, and production best practices.


Zero downtime CloudNativePG (CNPG) and PostgreSQL upgrade on Kubernetes

Outgrown Railway, Render, or Fly.io? This guide covers the reliability, cost, and operational case for moving to Kubernetes — with a real pricing comparison between Railway and EKS, a migration roadmap, and an honest view of when it's the right move.

You've outgrown Railway or PaaS. Now what?

Learn how to upgrade PostgreSQL 13 to 18 on AWS RDS using Blue/Green Deployments for near zero downtime. Step-by-step strategy, risks, rollback, and best practices.


Zero-Downtime PostgreSQL Upgrade: RDS Blue/Green from version 13 to version 18

Kubernetes v1.36 ships 70 enhancements including GA user namespaces, mutating admission policies, and OCI volumes. Here's what's new, what's removed, and what to audit before you upgrade.

Kubernetes v1.36 (Haru): New Features, Deprecations & Upgrade Guide

AWS Batch doesn’t publish job status metrics to CloudWatch by default. Learn how to export these customized counts using Lambda and Eventbridge to CloudWatch.

Monitoring AWS Batch Jobs with CloudWatch Custom Metrics

Discover India's top 5 sovereign AI cloud providers in 2026. Why Sovereign AI Clouds are the future of AI in India? Learn about India's AI cloud landscape, funding & AI factories.

Top 5 Sovereign AI Cloud Providers in India: Leading the AI Factory Revolution

Discover the best AI agent frameworks for enterprise in 2026 and learn how to choose the right one for your use case, team, and production requirements.

Best AI Agent Frameworks in 2026

The clock is ticking on Heroku. Learn why the shift to a sustaining engineering model makes migrating to Kubernetes a strategic imperative for growth, cost control, and technical sovereignty.

Heroku to Kubernetes Migration: Clock is ticking

Learn how to build a production-ready DynamoDB to S3 streaming pipeline using AWS Firehose and Apache Iceberg. Handle schema evolution, upserts, deletes, and enable near real-time analytics.

How to Build a Real-Time DynamoDB to S3 Analytics Pipeline with Apache Iceberg

Context Graph is a knowledge representation framework that enables AI systems to understand relationships between data. Learn how Context Graphs improve reasoning, reduce hallucinations, and power enterprise AI.

Context Graphs for AI Agents: The Complete Implementation Guide

Kubernetes v1.35 introduces in-place Pod resizing, major security and scheduling updates, and removes legacy components operators must address for production readiness.

Kubernetes v1.35 (Timbernetes): Why This Release Actually Matters for Production & AI Workloads

Migrating Celery based job execution to cloud-native argo-workflows.

How We Replaced Celery with Argo Workflows and Slashed Compute Costs by 11x

A deep dive into how AI bias emerges, real-world consequences, and a practical toolkit for building fair and inclusive AI systems.

Beyond Algorithms: Making AI Ethical and Inclusive

Supercharge your PostgreSQL analytics by offloading heavy OLAP queries to ClickHouse using a real-time CDC pipeline with PeerDB, achieving sub-millisecond dashboards while keeping your primary Postgres fast, reliable, and cost‑effective.

Real-Time Postgres to ClickHouse CDC: Supercharge Analytics with PeerDB

Discover how clustering techniques unlock actionable business insights and enhance decision-making. Learn how leading businesses leverage customer segmentation, trend analysis, and self-service analytics with clustering to drive sales, optimize operations, and improve profitability. Example applications from QSR and real-world use cases inside.

Trends Analysis: How Clustering helps in understanding business trends

A comprehensive guide to implementing observability for Large Language Models in production environments, covering monitoring, tracing, security, and cost optimization strategies.

LLM Observability: Monitoring Large Language Models

Improve reliability in platform engineering with advanced feature flagging. Enable safe deployments, progressive delivery, and real-time experimentation to streamline modern software delivery.

Feature Flagging

An introduction to Kagent — an open-source agentic AI platform designed to revolutionize Kubernetes operations with multi-agent reasoning, MCP integration, and cloud-native automation.

Kagent: Agentic AI for Cloud-Native Operations

Learn the technology and architecture behind building AI Cloud and why high performance storage is important.

Why high performance storage is important for AI Cloud Build

Learn how to make Kubernetes deployments production-ready with best practices for security, networking, scaling, storage, and high availability. A complete guide to running Kubernetes in real-world environments.

How to Make Kubernetes Deployment Production Ready

Monitoring tells you when something is already broken. Canary Checker helps you ensure it never breaks in the first place. Discover how to implement Kubernetes-native, proactive health checks that test your application

Canary Checker Kubernetes Native Health Checks Beyond Monitoring

Secure your Kubernetes environment with Kyverno. Understand how to protect namespaces, manage resources, and enforce consistent policies as code.

Secure Kubernetes using Kyverno Policy-as-code

A deep technical dive into Kong, Envoy Gateway, and kgateway — analyzing their architecture, use cases, pros, cons, and Kubernetes-native capabilities to help you choose the right API Gateway solution.

Choosing the Best Kubernetes API Gateway: comparing Kong, Envoy, and kgateway

Explore how Knative brings serverless to your Kubernetes cluster, offering enhanced control, cost efficiency, and flexibility. Learn about challenges, solutions, and practical steps for a seamless migration, including a detailed comparison with FaaS platforms.

Building Serverless Functions on Kubernetes using Knative

Explore hands-on strategies to monitor network devices and traffic using Prometheus. Learn how to integrate SNMP exporters, collect real-time metrics like outgoing traffic, incoming traffic, device availability etc, and visualize trends using Grafana.

Network monitoring with Prometheus

Discover how Kro (Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator) transforms platform engineering by eliminating Kubernetes dependency hell and CRD sprawl. This guide explores how Kro empowers teams to define reusable, declarative resource graphs, enabling self-service golden paths and scalable internal developer platforms. Ideal for DevOps and platform engineers aiming to simplify Kubernetes and accelerate delivery.

Simplify Kubernetes Deployment with Kro: A Platform Engineering and Internal Developer Platform Approach

Learn how to design observability pipelines that enforce data protection, support compliance regulations, and ensure secure telemetry using OpenTelemetry.

Implementing Compliance-first Observability with OpenTelemetry

Explore hands-on strategies to prepare PostgreSQL for high-ingestion workloads. Learn how to fine-tune memory, WAL, and autovacuum settings, design efficient schemas, and improve insert performance, keeping your database efficient and ready to grow.


Tuning PostgreSQL for Write Heavy Workloads

Explore the most impactful Kubernetes metrics that drive better observability, reduce downtime, and help teams scale clusters with confidence.

Top metrics to watch in Kubernetes

Deploy enterprise-grade ClickHouse clusters in minutes with Ansible. Learn hardware-aware tuning, security, and monitoring for production-ready deployments.

Building Enterprise-Grade ClickHouse Clusters with Ansible

Learn how we migrated 100TB of historical metrics from InfluxDB v1 to Grafana Mimir for a leading communication company. Discover challenges, architecture choices, dashboard conversion, and custom tooling like mimircli to modernize your observability stack with Prometheus, OpenMetrics, and PromQL.

How We Migrated Terabytes of Metrics from InfluxDB to Grafana Mimir: A Complete Observability Overhaul

Discover the top vector databases of 2025 and learn how they enable efficient similarity search for AI and ML applications.

Top 5 Vector Databases in 2025

Enhance Kubernetes security with a Zero Trust approach using Tailscale VPN. Learn how to protect your Kubernetes API server, secure internal applications, and implement Zero Trust network security for cloud-native environments.

Securing the Kubernetes: Implement Zero Trust Network Security with Tailscale

Learn how to optimize Rook-Ceph storage for high performance, scalability, and reliability in Kubernetes. This in-depth guide covers installation, best practices, and tuning techniques for Ceph storage.

Comprehensive guide to tuning Rook-Ceph Storage

Learn how to design and implement a scalable, usage-based billing system for AI workloads, ensuring cost efficiency and transparency for users.

How to Implement Scalable Usage-Based Billing for AI Workloads

Implementing OpenTelemetry Auto Instrumentation for Effortless Observability

How to Implement OpenTelemetry Auto Instrumentation for Effortless Observability

Discover how Cilium Hubble leverages eBPF for advanced network observability in Kubernetes, and explore alternative open-source tools like Calico, Pixie, and Kubeshark.

eBPF-Based Network Observability: Exploring Cilium Hubble and Alternatives

We will explore various strategies for monitoring PostgreSQL databases, whether they are running on VMs, Kubernetes, self-managed environments, or as cloud service databases.


PostgreSQL Monitoring

Explore the best open source logging tools tailored for cloud native observability, empowering developers and operators to monitor and debug applications effectively.

Top Open Source Logging Tools for Cloud Native Observability

Discover how AI Web Agents and Large Action Models are revolutionizing automation with intelligence, adaptability, and seamless efficiency

AI Web Agents: The Future of Intelligent Automation

Comprehensive guide to cloud security best practices for 2024. Learn essential strategies for AWS, Azure, GCP security, zero trust architecture, DevSecOps, and compliance frameworks to protect your enterprise infrastructure.

Cloud Security Best Practices 2024: Complete Guide for Enterprise Security

Master Kubernetes scaling with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA), and Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA) to optimize production workloads.

Scaling Applications in Kubernetes: A Guide to HPA, VPA, and KEDA for Production Workloads

Discover best practices on running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes, from avoiding cloud database lock-ins to maximizing storage and backup efficiency

Why would you run PostgreSQL in Kubernetes, and how?

A comprehensive comparison of ClickHouse and DuckDB, exploring their unique strengths in analytics and workflows to help you choose the best fit for your use case.

ClickHouse vs. DuckDB: Choosing the Right OLAP Database

This article explores ClickHouse, a fast, scalable database for analytics, covering its key features, deployment on Kubernetes, and scaling it with sharding and replication.

ClickHouse: The Key to Faster Insights

Prometheus best practices involve efficient metric naming, label management, query optimization, storage tuning, actionable alerting, scaling via sharding, and securing access.

Prometheus Best Practices

Learn how to deploy and manage highly available PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes. This guide covers failover, disaster recovery strategies, and hands-on examples for implementing robust, scalable database systems in cloud-native environments.

How to Build Scalable and Reliable PostgreSQL Systems on Kubernetes

Explore Tetragon, an eBPF-powered security tool for cloud-native environments. This post highlights Tetragon features, Kubernetes integration, and compares it with traditional security tools, providing valuable insights for DevOps and security professionals looking for advanced runtime security solutions.

Enhancing Cloud-Native Security with Tetragon

Learn how to reduce Azure cloud costs by 30% with strategic optimizations and best practices.

Azure Cost Optimization: How we saved 30% for a SaaS

Learn to implement Argo CD SSO with Microsoft Entra ID. Enhance GitOps Security and Streamline User Access for Kubernetes Deployments

Argo CD SSO using Microsoft Entra ID

Olly is the AI-powered observability assistant designed to streamline troubleshooting and boost efficiency in modern cloud-native environments. 

Introducing Olly: AI-Powered Observability Assistant

Explore how OpenTelemetry enhances CI/CD observability, boosting performance, troubleshooting, and scalability in DevOps.

CI/CD Observability using OpenTelemetry

Explore comprehensive OCR technology: from key metrics and preprocessing techniques to advanced models like Surya-OCR.

Decoding OCR: A Comprehensive Guide

 Learn how to scale Prometheus using Thanos for long-term storage, global view metrics, and improved performance in large-scale Kubernetes environments.

Scaling Prometheus with Thanos

How to select observability products in 2024? Our comprehensive guide is based on our research and experiences with various observability products.

Expert Guide on Selecting Observability Products

Discover the benefits of GitOps and explore a detailed comparison between ArgoCD and FluxCD. Learn how these tools streamline deployments and enhance DevOps workflows.

GitOps: ArgoCD vs FluxCD

Dive into the world of Prometheus monitoring with our comprehensive guide. Learn about PromQL and how to set up effective alerts for your infrastructure. Discover best practices for monitoring Kubernetes and integrating with tools like Grafana.

Monitoring with Prometheus

Explore the differences between K3s and Talos Linux, two specialized Kubernetes distributions designed for different operational needs. Learn about their features, use cases, and how to choose the right one for your deployment.

K3s vs Talos Linux

Mistakes are inevitable, but preventing their recurrence is crucial. Learn how thorough reviews, audits, and robust backup and disaster recovery strategies can mitigate risks.

How to Protect Data in the Cloud

Discover Kuberay, the open-source Kubernetes operator for managing AI/ML model lifecycle using Ray. Learn how it simplifies scaling, deployment, and monitoring machine learning workloads on Kubernetes.

Streamlining Model Lifecycle with KubeRay

Simplify Kubernetes management with Talos Linux. Learn how Talos streamlines Kubernetes deployment and operations, offering enhanced security, scalability, and efficiency for your cloud-native applications.

Making Kubernetes Simple with Talos

Learn about how to moderate content using AI models and frameworks such as llamaindex, moondream and microsoft phi-3.

Content Moderation using AI

Discover effective strategies for monitoring Jenkins with our comprehensive guide. Learn how to enhance your CI/CD pipeline performance and reliability using the best monitoring tools and practices.

A Guide to Monitor Jenkins

Learn the technology and architecture behind building AI Cloud using open source and cloud native technologies.

How to Build AI Cloud?

Learn how to migrate VMs to Kubernetes using KubeVirt. Our step-by-step guide simplifies the process, enhancing scalability and management of your virtual machines in a cloud-native environment.

Migrating VMs to Kubernetes with Kubevirt

Discover how CloudRaft's partnership with KloudMate enhances cloud-native observability and performance monitoring. Learn about the benefits this collaboration brings to your cloud infrastructure.

CloudRaft and KloudMate join forces to transform Observability

Explore the intersection of cloud-native technologies and AI in our latest blog. Discover how integrating AI with cloud-native frameworks enhances scalability, efficiency, and innovation in modern applications.

The Intersection of Cloud Native and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path Ahead

Explore our in-depth blog on Platform Engineering, crafted for CTOs and Executives. Learn strategies to build scalable, resilient, and efficient developer-focused platforms.

Platform Engineering: A Guide for CTOs

Explore essential Linux troubleshooting techniques and learn how to optimize system performance and resolve issues efficiently 

Linux Troubleshooting For SREs

This tutorial talks about how to partition NVIDIA GPUs using MIG architecture to optimize their usage in Kubernetes platform

Optimizing NVIDIA GPUs with Partitioning in Kubernetes

Implement multi-tenancy in Kubernetes using vcluster and achieve cost optimization and increased security.

Multi-tenancy in Kubernetes using Vcluster

Learn how to deploy LLMs like Dolly-2, llama 2, wizardlm, etc easily with OpenLLM and Kubernetes in production environments. Step-by-step guide.

Deploy LLM models on Kubernetes using OpenLLM 

Explore the world of container runtimes with our in-depth guide. Understand the key differences, benefits, and use cases of Docker, containerd, CRI-O, and other leading container runtimes.

Most Popular Container Runtimes

Explore the benefits and best practices of running containers in Azure. Learn how Azure’s robust platform enhances container management, deployment, and scalability for your applications.

Running Containers in Azure

Understand the anti-patterns and best practices of secure coding. Shift left and automate the process.

Secure Coding Best Practices

Kong is a cloud native API Gateway built for scale. In this post, we will see the benefits, usecases and how to deploy Kong on Kubernetes.

Why use Kong API Gateway

Learn about the MLOps and how to implement processes and manage lifecycle of AI/ML models and projects.

Insights on Cloud Native and AI