Sowmya Narayan

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Real incidents.
Practical lessons.

I document production issues, troubleshoot cloud and Kubernetes environments, and share the solutions and lessons learned along the way. Explore my technical articles on TechGalary, my technical knowledge-sharing website.

01PRODUCTION RELIABILITY

Surviving a Kafka Production Outage on Kubernetes: Lessons from a Real GCP Incident

A production incident walkthrough covering Kafka alerts, Kubernetes recovery, and troubleshooting across a GCP environment.

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02CLOUD SECURITY

Handling Critical Container Vulnerabilities in Kubernetes Using Prisma Cloud

Container vulnerability management and security considerations for Kubernetes workloads.

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03AZURE · AKS

Troubleshooting Kubernetes Load Balancer Creation Failure Due to Azure Policy Restrictions

Investigating an AKS load balancer provisioning failure caused by Azure Policy restrictions.

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04CLOUD NETWORKING

Troubleshooting Azure Load Balancer Data Path Availability Degradation

A production troubleshooting case involving Azure Load Balancer data-path availability and backend service traffic.

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05PRODUCTION INCIDENT

JDBC Connectivity Failures and Hikari Connection Pool Timeouts

Investigating JDBC connectivity and connection-pool timeouts affecting authentication and notification services.

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06DATABASE RELIABILITY

PostgreSQL Outage Impacting Login and Microservices Platform

A production incident involving PostgreSQL availability and its impact on login and dependent microservices.

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07HYBRID CLOUD

MQ Timeout Issue Across Azure and GCP Datacenters

Troubleshooting messaging timeouts across a hybrid environment spanning Azure and Google Cloud.

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08AUTOMATION · HELM

Automating Helm Chart Cleanup in ChartMuseum

Automating Helm chart repository cleanup to keep ChartMuseum storage and artifacts manageable.

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