Eakan with his pet dog

Eakan Gopalakrishnan

Lessons in the craft of software engineering and engineering management
Paper boats

The Hidden Dangers of Unconscious Bias: Understanding and Managing Implicit Prejudices

Introduction A recent conversation with my cousin, who was moving to London, highlighted a concerning issue: an unconscious bias that made him prejudiced. What did they say that made me feel concerned? “I am not racist but when I got out of the station, I noticed that it was mostly people of x community walking around. I didn’t feel safe at all.” This is unconscious bias in action. And as this bias made my cousin feel unsafe among a community of people of a race, and is therefore discriminating against a race, it is racism....

August 15, 2024 · 5 min · 1048 words · eakangk
Microservices as generated by ChatGPT

Kubernetes for non-ops folks - Kubernetes Objects and manifests - an introduction

Warning 🚧 This series is a Work in Progress I am writing, rewriting and publishing almost everyday. Some of the write-up links to others and sometimes I realise that context should have been given earlier, so I reorganise the pages in the series. It felt more valuable to share this series as I wrote it, rather than wait till I polish everything up. This keeps me motivated to iterate quickly and avoid procrastination....

August 5, 2024 · 12 min · 2503 words · eakangk
Microservices as generated by ChatGPT

Kubernetes for non-ops folks - Nodes

Warning 🚧 This series is a Work in Progress I am writing, rewriting and publishing almost everyday. Some of the write-up links to others and sometimes I realise that context should have been given earlier, so I reorganise the pages in the series. It felt more valuable to share this series as I wrote it, rather than wait till I polish everything up. This keeps me motivated to iterate quickly and avoid procrastination....

July 18, 2024 · 2 min · 419 words · eakangk
Microservices as generated by ChatGPT

Kubernetes for non-ops folks - Containers

Warning 🚧 This series is a Work in Progress I am writing, rewriting and publishing almost everyday. Some of the write-up links to others and sometimes I realise that context should have been given earlier, so I reorganise the pages in the series. It felt more valuable to share this series as I wrote it, rather than wait till I polish everything up. This keeps me motivated to iterate quickly and avoid procrastination....

July 17, 2024 · 4 min · 697 words · eakangk
Microservices as generated by ChatGPT

Kubernetes for non-ops folks - Architecture

Warning 🚧 This series is a Work in Progress I am writing, rewriting and publishing almost everyday. Some of the write-up links to others and sometimes I realise that context should have been given earlier, so I reorganise the pages in the series. It felt more valuable to share this series as I wrote it, rather than wait till I polish everything up. This keeps me motivated to iterate quickly and avoid procrastination....

July 16, 2024 · 10 min · 1961 words · eakangk