Akshay Deshpande

I recently had an interesting, nerdy discussion with a friend about an idea that we later named “thinking in concentric circles.”

The previous write-up ended with the output from the embedding lookup (1 and 2 below).

When a new model is announced, we often see a description like this: Llama 2 7B: 4096 dimensions, 32 attention heads, 32 Transformer blocks What do those numbers mean?

In the previous post, Two Layers, One Mental Model: How I Stopped Fighting My AI Tools, I wrote about a simple way to reason about AI tooling: Context — what the agent knows when it wakes up.

The mess that triggered this A few months ago, my AI tool usage looked like most engineers’ AI usage.

This writeup talks about different metric type that an application can emit as telemetry.

This note is a mental model for how Prometheus discovers and scrapes metrics in Kubernetes.

In most of distributed datastore systems, there are a lot of techical terms to describe the behavior of the system.

When studying Chapter 4 of Designing Data-Intensive Applications (Encoding and Evolution), I quickly encounters a level of granularity that seems mechanical: binary formats, schema evolution, and serialization techniques.

I attended Kubecon India 2025 held in Hyderabad this year.

I enjoy philosophy.

The intention of this page is to put together the Observability Signal Guidelines which will provide the required visibility into the systems without hurting the cost aspect of the solution.

I recently did a brush up course on Networking/Protocols 101’s.

Observability is crucial for modern distributed systems, enabling engineers to monitor, debug, and optimize their applications effectively.

This page documents a few aspects of memory management on Java containers on K8s clusters.

There isn’t a single book or article on observability (O11y) where there isn’t a mention of MELT.

Talks and presentations I have given at conferences, meetups, and internal events.

Books that have shaped how I think about technology, systems, philosophy, and life.

In distributed systems, the principle of message passing between nodes is a core concept.

This post is a geek-out journey this festive season on finding the right tool for my personal finance management.

This is a brain dump on how taking notes and Obsidian as a tool has helped me.

This writeup is an outcome of a side quest while geeking out on System Design.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Over the past few years, I have worked on different multi-cluster distributed datastores and messaging systems like - ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Kafka etc.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

In this write up, we will try and explore how to make the most out of the resources in K8s cluster for the Pods on them.

[Self Notes and Review]: This is a second writeup in the series of reading DDIA book and publishing my notes from the book.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

[Self Notes and Review]: This is a new series of publications where I am publishing my self notes/extracts from reading the very famous book - DDIA (Designing Data-Intensive Applications) by Martin Kleppmann.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

This writeup is more of a demo to showcase the power of “proc” (process information pseudo-filesystem) interface in linux to get the memory details of process, and also a quick brief on the power of “proc interface”.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

This writeup is a dump of my study notes on most frequently used docker commands for reference.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

There is no better pleasure than the Joy of solving your own problems.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

As a Performance Engineer, time and again you will come across a situation where you want to profile CPU of a system.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

These are the self-notes from managing 100+ node ES cluster, reading through various resources and a lot of production incidents due to unhealthy ES.

When you come across a system which is misbehaving, majority of the times the first metrics that we look at is CPU usage.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.

Here are a bunch of Technical / Non-Technical topics that I came across recently and found them very resourceful.