Notes from my review of the paper, "ForecastBench: A Dynamic Benchmark of AI Forecasting Capabilities."| Navendu Pottekkat
Notes from "Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons from Building Manus."| Navendu Pottekkat
Setting up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi for DNS-level ad blocking on my home WiFi network.| Navendu Pottekkat
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets LLMs run code safely in isolated Docker containers.| Navendu Pottekkat
A short note on using the OpenAI Agents SDK's new MCP support to integrate tools into your LLM workflows.| Navendu Pottekkat - The Open Source Absolutist
A practical + interactive crash course on Git (that slaps).| Navendu Pottekkat - The Open Source Absolutist
A practical quickstart guide for building MCP servers in Go with MCP Go SDK.| Navendu Pottekkat
Notes on active citizenship and governance from Nitin Pai's translation of the ancient Indian text "The Nitopadesha." This is part 2 of a four-part series.| Posts on Navendu Pottekkat - The Open Source Absolutist
Most talks are bad. And I don't mean kinda bad; I mean "why am I here, what am I doing, and when can I leave?" bad.| Navendu Pottekkat
A short walkthrough of how I use Hugo Version Manager (hvm) to manage different Hugo versions across projects.| Navendu Pottekkat
An interactive guide for updating beliefs based on evidence.| Navendu Pottekkat
💯 skill issue.| Posts on Navendu Pottekkat - The Open Source Absolutist
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.| Navendu Pottekkat
Notes on active citizenship and governance from Nitin Pai's translation of the ancient Indian text "The Nitopadesha." This is part 1 of a four-part series.| Navendu Pottekkat
I recently configured my development environment from scratch. This post documents my complete, although ongoing, setup.| Navendu Pottekkat
Exploring new open source licenses that attempt to balance benefits and make open source sustainable.| Navendu Pottekkat
Learn to use jq through incremental, interactive examples right in your browser.| Posts on Navendu Pottekkat - The Open Source Absolutist
Notes on adding a TIL section to share small learnings easily.| Posts on Navendu Pottekkat - The Open Source Absolutist
Why I started using Front Matter CMS to work with my Hugo-based static website and how you can do it, too.| Navendu Pottekkat
A guide to using Codapi, an open source, lightweight solution to add interactivity to your technical writing.| Navendu Pottekkat
A guide for using SigNoz to collect and observe metrics from Apache APISIX.| Navendu Pottekkat
I could probably give solid life advice to twenty-year-olds, right?| Posts on Navendu Pottekkat - The Open Source Absolutist
An interactive guide to migrate from Nginx to Apache APISIX.| Navendu Pottekkat
We need to democratize AI to save our democracies.| Navendu Pottekkat
But here’s another viable Nginx replacement.| Navendu Pottekkat
A postmortem on the Freenginx announcement.| Navendu Pottekkat
Fortunately, the external access one has been solved now that we’ve all standardized on the Ingress API. Or is it the Gateway API? Shit.| Navendu Pottekkat
An exploration of continuous delivery workflows for building and managing APIs at scale.| Navendu Pottekkat
A better way to think about limits to prevent security issues from resource starvation.| Navendu Pottekkat
The Kubernetes API was recently made generally available. Does that mean you should switch away from the Ingress API?| Navendu Pottekkat
A tutorial on using APISIX’s request batching capability in Kubernetes Ingress.| Navendu Pottekkat
A look under the hood to see how Apache APISIX supports WebAssembly plugins.| Navendu Pottekkat
Exploring the new Kubernetes Gateway API and comparing it with the existing Kubernetes Ingress API for handling external traffic.| Navendu Pottekkat
I ask a lot of questions to my peers and to strangers on public forums in the internet. This year, I have been trying to improve this process to ask better questions. Here is how I do it.| Navendu Pottekkat
This tutorial walks you through setting up monitoring on a microservice application using Prometheus and Grafana.| Navendu Pottekkat
As the size of your APIs increase, the need for making them reliable and robust also increases. This article discusses the best practices for designing reliable APIs by introducing you to a special kind of reverse proxies called API gateways.| Navendu Pottekkat
A tale of how I spent an irrationally long time figuring out why the tests pass on my machine but fail in the CI.| Navendu Pottekkat
A short guide on why and how you might use APISIX to access external services in Kubernetes.| Navendu Pottekkat
An amateur engineer’s philosophy on building software.| Navendu Pottekkat
Converting the “tiny” APISIX plugin to a “tinier” APISIX plugin.| Navendu Pottekkat
Notes as I learn about WebAssembly by building an open source project.| Navendu Pottekkat
A guide on using the new APISIX Declarative CLI to manage APISIX with declarative configuration files.| Navendu Pottekkat
Access to publicly funded scientific research should be ubiquitous. But the current plan to achieve this is far from ideal.| Navendu Pottekkat
Modifying some JavaScript code to add a search feature for the daily logs page.| Navendu Pottekkat
A guide on using Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash to work with logs from Apache APISIX.| Navendu Pottekkat
How I added a list of articles in the same series at the beginning of each post.| Navendu Pottekkat
A guide to using the rate limit plugins in Apache APISIX with some practical examples.| Navendu Pottekkat
Adding a new layer of validation within your API gateway can be a useful design practice for a myriad of reasons. This article explores how you can configure this in Apache APISIX.| Navendu Pottekkat
A tutorial on creating a custom Apache APISIX plugin in Lua through a real use case.| Navendu Pottekkat
My recent experience in using regular expressions to automate a menial task.| Navendu Pottekkat
A “tiny” example to demonstrate how Apache APISIX supports Wasm plugins.| Navendu Pottekkat
A guide to using Apache APISIX as an MQTT proxy to connect IoT devices to the cloud.| Navendu Pottekkat
What can the Indian Government do about artificial intelligence?| Navendu Pottekkat
Apache APISIX is generally used to manage north-south traffic in Kubernetes and often sits at the edge of a cluster. With Amesh, APISIX is now a service mesh.| Navendu Pottekkat
Taking a look under Apache APISIX’s hood to understand how it achieves ultimate performance.| Navendu Pottekkat
Semi-ordered thoughts on the new Digital Personal Data Protection Bill by the Indian Government.| Navendu Pottekkat
An amateur policy analyst attempts to explain why (disregarding controversies) installing AI traffic cameras in Kerala was a bad idea.| Navendu Pottekkat
What do the recent advancements in generative AI mean for APIs?| Navendu Pottekkat
This article is about a project I built and open sourced three years ago and our journey to make it uzhunnu vada (UV) profitable™.| Navendu Pottekkat
Someone tried to open pull requests to open source projects with AI-generated code.| Navendu Pottekkat
A hands-on tutorial on using custom APISIX Plugins in Kubernetes environments with APISIX Ingress.| Navendu Pottekkat
Writing as a way to think clearly and articulate your thoughts.| Navendu Pottekkat
A hands-on tutorial on using the new Kubernetes Gateway API with Apache APISIX Ingress.| Navendu Pottekkat
A note on the role of communities in open source.| Navendu Pottekkat
A conversation with ChatGPT about ChatGPT. Who are you?| Navendu Pottekkat
A hands-on tutorial on leveraging the full features provided by APISIX in Kubernetes Ingress.| Navendu Pottekkat
Exploring how symmetric-key and public-key cryptography works by using GPG keys to sign commits and send encrypted messages.| Navendu Pottekkat
A complete tutorial on how to set up RetroPie and play retro games on a GPi CASE 2 with a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 under the hood.| Navendu Pottekkat
Cryptocurrencies are trying to be a solution to a financial problem that does not exist. UPI solved digital payments years ago.| Navendu Pottekkat
Evaluating where I am and deciding where I want to be next.| Navendu Pottekkat
Learn to get up and running with the microblogging platform everyone is talking about.| Navendu Pottekkat
Many companies and tech gurus claim you don’t need a college degree for a programming job. But here’s why you might want to get one regardless.| Navendu Pottekkat
A hands-on, from-scratch tutorial on setting up canary releases in Kubernetes with Apache APISIX Ingress.| Navendu Pottekkat
Insights from my three year journey as an open source contributor.| Navendu Pottekkat
I’ve been writing blogs for almost three years now. Recently, I’ve been putting a lot of effort into building and maintaining my blog. This article documents my blog setup and my writing process from idea to publishing.| Navendu Pottekkat
A tutorial on using Ingress in your Kubernetes cluster with Apache APISIX.| Navendu Pottekkat
Sharing how I got involved in the LFX Mentorship Program and its life-changing impact on my career and personal life.| Navendu Pottekkat
This article shows how you can add diagrams to your Hugo site with Mermaid.| Navendu Pottekkat
This blog is now deployed on Netlify. Here is how and why I did it.| Navendu Pottekkat
I have been blogging ever since I started out as a software engineer. Here is why you should do it too.| Navendu Pottekkat
Key takeaways from Morgan Housel’s international bestseller “The Psychology of Money”—brief and to the point.| Navendu Pottekkat
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a great way to start contributing to open source while getting paid to do so. This article dives deep into everything GSoC from the application procedure to tips from real experience on being successful| Navendu Pottekkat
Contributing to documentation is really impactful for an open-source project. It can also be a stepping stone to make code contributions. Learn how.| Navendu Pottekkat
As open source becomes the default way to build software, contributions required to create, manage, and sustain projects go beyond code. This article teaches you to make non-code contributions.| Navendu Pottekkat
Tips to make High-Quality Pull Requests.| Navendu Pottekkat
A curated list of open source internship/mentorship programs with all the necessary details.| Navendu Pottekkat
A template for writing useful READMEs.| Navendu Pottekkat
Applying best practices to make new API deployments using the API gateway of choice, Apache APISIX.| Navendu Pottekkat