Anshumali Sharma

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Great News! Elastic Cloud Serverless is now GA in two new Google Cloud regions — Belgium and Mumbai! Powered by the same Elasticsearch you love, it's the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search hassle-free. Learn more: https://gag.gl/k4BPLB

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Kubernetes Modernization - Driving Cost Optimization, Security & Operational Excellence Migrating to AWS EKS, Azure AKS and GCP GKE enables cost optimization through auto-scaling, right-sizing workloads, and improved resource scheduling. Security improves with RBAC, network policies, secrets management, and policy enforcement. Built-in self-healing, multi-zone deployments, and rolling updates enhance redundancy and availability. Automation, GitOps, and observability integration drive true operational excellence and reliability. Kubernetes is evolving into the backbone of modern, scalable cloud platforms. #Kubernetes #CloudNative #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #SRE #CostOptimization #CloudSecurityDriving Cost Optimization, Security & Operational Excellence

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Cloud Chaos, Strategic Clarity: How We Engineered Smarter Systems May was a month of intense architecture work—where complexity met clarity and collaboration drove results. We tackled everything from cloud cost forecasting and infrastructure automation to aligning service provisioning with CMDB standards. One of the most intense challenges? Aligning with CISO on native cloud security. It’s a critical conversation—balancing agility with compliance—and it’s pushing us to rethink how we embed security into every layer of our architecture. And none of this would be possible without the incredible collaboration in the cloud squad. Working across domains with a shared mindset made all the difference. Sorin Pasa, Snehil B., Basil Lamtouk, Benoit G. Champy, Michael Remy we push hard every day, over and over again to try to move what seems to be unmovable walls in the organisation. Looking ahead: more automation, more alignment, and more impact with a relentless drive to innovate the way we run IT in general! #TechnicalArchitecture #CloudSecurity #InfraAutomation #CloudStrategy #DevOps #FinOps #ServiceNow #Azure #OperationalExcellence #CloudSquad #Teamwork

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DevOps Lead Interview at Netflix Round 1 – Systems at Scale, K8s, Cloud & Linux • How would you implement fine-grained service discovery across 1000+ microservices using Envoy or Istio? • Explain how you’d leverage eBPF + Cilium to enforce network security policies at runtime, and what the advantages are over traditional CNIs? • Netflix runs multi-cloud. Describe your approach to cross-cloud routing, IAM, and secret syncing. • What happens when systemd units fail intermittently on EKS nodes? How do you detect and heal? • Your app teams demand custom AMIs. What’s your pre-prod vetting strategy at kernel and runtime? • Walk through advanced kube-probe configurations to detect business logic failures, not just HTTP 200. • How do you handle DNS-level outages inside a service mesh without a full app redeploy? • Terraform remote_state backend suddenly times out. What’s your recovery and damage containment strategy? Round 2 – RCA, Fire Drills, and Netflix-Scale Chaos • A new Envoy config rollout silently broke mTLS between edge and mesh. What’s your RCA trace? • HPA refuses to scale even though Prometheus shows CPU > 80%. Diagnose with cloud + K8s metrics. • You introduced a sidecar-based caching layer. Suddenly, tail latency spikes. What’s your debug path? • 504 errors on the playback service. Cloud LB shows healthy, mesh sidecars pass, but users can’t stream. Triage? • You notice surging NAT costs. No infra changes this week. What could silently trigger that? Round 3 – Leadership, Chaos Culture & Engineering Influence • How do you build an engineering culture where SLOs are owned, not ignored? • You’re asked to ship a multi-region failover in 3 weeks, no DNS layer allowed. Your plan? • Describe how you’d test infra chaos and graceful degradation for a Netflix Originals release. • How do you prove the ROI of infra modernization to non-technical execs? 💡 TL;DR: If you haven’t: 1. Used eBPF to trace a TCP reset at runtime 2. Investigated TLS outages across sidecars 3. Debugged Redis inconsistency under pressure 4. Simulated a kubelet crash mid-streaming session Then Netflix interviews won’t just test you; they’ll expose the cracks in your production mindset. But what if you could train on this before getting grilled? That’s what InfraThrone was built for: RCA drills, Fire room simulations, Real infra chaos 🎯 Next Batch: Nov 01st 2025 🔗 https://lnkd.in/edx2YiAn #DevOps #NetflixScale #SRE #ChaosEngineering #Kubernetes #Linux #Cloud #PlatformEngineering #Observability #InfraThrone #RCADrills

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Great News! Elastic Cloud Serverless is now GA in two new Google Cloud regions — Belgium and Mumbai! Powered by the same Elasticsearch you love, it's the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search hassle-free. Learn more: https://gag.gl/k4BPLB

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Great News! Elastic Cloud Serverless is now GA in two new Google Cloud regions — Belgium and Mumbai! Powered by the same Elasticsearch you love, it's the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search hassle-free. Learn more: https://gag.gl/k4BPLB

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k0s was designed to be a zero-friction Kubernetes distribution, catering to the needs of developers, operators, and edge computing enthusiasts. ✍️✍️✍️ A milestone for lightweight Kubernetes: k0s joins CNCF sandbox https://lnkd.in/gGERQCKu

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The industry's focus is shifting. It's time to look past Terraform & OpenTofu and embrace the move towards more integrated, Kubernetes Operators - native automation. Kubernetes Operator based Reference Architectures: 🎯 SAP: ApeiroRA - https://lnkd.in/dHaAPiXZ 🎯 Amazon & Cisco: CNOE - https://lnkd.in/d9Paj7qS 🎯 Microsoft: AKS Labs - https://lnkd.in/dMvn9DpV 🎯 Google: KRO Architecture - https://lnkd.in/d2butixN Operator Pattern & Platform Mesh(must have for scale): 🎯 Operator Pattern: https://lnkd.in/dwkvJY3B 🎯 Platform Mesh: https://github.com/kcp-dev

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Great News! Elastic Cloud Serverless is now GA in two new Google Cloud regions — Belgium and Mumbai! Powered by the same Elasticsearch you love, it's the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search hassle-free. Learn more: https://gag.gl/k4BPLB

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“Be honest… is this even possible within this timeline?” That was the question raised when we presented the delivery plan. The timeline was aggressive. The integrations were complex. And expectations were extremely high. In most projects, that combination usually leads to delays, pressure, and chaos. But something interesting happened. We delivered the project even before the timeline many leaders thought was possible. After the delivery, leaders and other teams started asking: “What did you do differently?” The answer surprised many people. It wasn’t just technical expertise. Because honestly… technical challenges are almost always solvable. What really made the difference was a combination of strategy and leadership mindset. Instead of pushing the team harder, we focused on a few simple things: • Strategy first – planning deliveries so integrations didn’t become blockers • Calmness – staying composed when pressure started building • Patience – allowing people the space to think and solve problems • Positivity – removing negativity and focusing on solutions • Support – encouraging the team and trusting their abilities And this experience reminded me of something powerful about leadership. Shining should never be the goal. When leaders try to shine alone, teams struggle. But when leaders focus on supporting others, building strategy, staying calm, and creating a positive environment, something powerful happens. The team grows. Confidence spreads. Momentum builds. And eventually… ✨ The shine appears naturally. Not because someone tried to stand out. But because the entire team succeeded together. That is the kind of leadership that creates real impact. ServiceNow deployments are usually fast by nature. But this time, we made it even faster, without missing major milestones. Proud of the team and the energy everyone brought to make this happen. 🚀 #Leadership #Strategy #Teamwork #CalmLeadership #Patience #PositiveLeadership #ProjectDelivery #ProjectLeadership #TechLeadership #ServiceNow #AcceleratedDelivery #PrecisionDelivery #HighVelocityImplementation

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Oracle's Database@AWS offering has been made generally available, launching in two AWS cloud regions, placing Oracle hardware within Amazon data centers. Data Centre Dynamics shares more. https://lnkd.in/dQYa9y5T

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Terraform vs. Pulumi vs. Crossplane — Choosing the Right IaC Tool for Your Platform Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) has evolved from a provisioning technique into a strategic pillar of platform engineering. As enterprises modernize across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, the real question is no longer “Which IaC tool is best?” but “Which tool aligns with your platform vision?” Terraform, Pulumi, and Crossplane represent three distinct philosophies. Terraform, the veteran, thrives on stability and governance. Its declarative HCL model enables consistent multi-cloud provisioning, policy-as-code enforcement, and cost-control guardrails—ideal for enterprises focused on reliability, FinOps maturity, and modular reuse. Pulumi redefines the developer experience. By using real programming languages—TypeScript, Python, Go—it merges infrastructure and application logic, empowering developer-led automation. Pulumi fits teams where “infrastructure is software” and velocity is key. Yet it requires discipline; flexibility without governance can invite drift. Crossplane, the newest player, shifts IaC into the Kubernetes control plane. Every cloud resource becomes a Kubernetes object, continuously reconciled through GitOps workflows. This model unlocks self-service provisioning and “infrastructure as API” patterns—perfect for platform teams building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). But its strength depends on Kubernetes maturity. So, how should a Solution Architect decide? The pragmatic answer is hybrid adoption. Use Terraform for foundational layers—networks, identity, shared services. Introduce Pulumi where developers need autonomy with guardrails. Experiment with Crossplane to unify infrastructure and application under a single declarative control plane. Architects must not chase tools—they must design ecosystems. The real differentiator lies in governance, standardization, and developer experience. IaC tools are enablers; the architecture behind their orchestration is where leadership emerges. In the end, the right choice is not about syntax or state files—it’s about strategy, culture, and control. The future belongs to architectures that blend declarative discipline, developer freedom, and platform automation into a cohesive IaC fabric.

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Check out the latest episode of De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast where Red Hat 's Holly Cummins discusses optimizing Kubernetes by eliminating wasteful "zombie" workloads, improving Java's container performance with Quarkus, and the future of AI in infrastructure.

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I think this is a great map showing the different skills and areas of influence you need to be comfortable with to be an effective Principal/Chief/Lead architect. I feel it's a great reminder of the skills you need to develop if you're looking to move into this type of role as well as stories you need to be able to articulate if you are actively pursuing opportunities for employment.

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