Roopak VenkatakrishnaninTech @ BoltWar Stories: The Split-Brain ConundrumThe story of how we dealt with a split-brain Kubernetes issue in the middle of a deploy freeze before Black Friday.6 min read·Jan 27, 2022--1--1
Roopak VenkatakrishnaninTech @ BoltAsset Compression & CloudfrontAt Bolt, we take speed very seriously. So when a merchant told us our frontend assets took multiple seconds to load, we were very…3 min read·Jul 30, 2021--1--1
Roopak VenkatakrishnaninSwissknifeCodeQL code analysis on CircleCIGithub recently launched code scanning, which is based on an open-source collection of CodeQL queries that analyze code to find security…1 min read·Jun 29, 2020----
Roopak VenkatakrishnaninTech @ BoltMigrating to a MonorepoHow we combined two repositories while maintaining our git history and having minimal downtime.7 min read·Jun 23, 2020----
Roopak VenkatakrishnaninSwissknifeMonorepo support with CircleCICircleCI has no inbuilt support for monorepos, however, this can be set up with some work. Swissknife takes does all that work and gives…3 min read·Jun 1, 2020----
Roopak VenkatakrishnaninSwissknifeIntroducing the CircleCI Swissknife orbSwissknife is a CircleCI orb designed to make your build pipelines simpler, smarter and faster. We started it to make sharing easier…2 min read·May 24, 2020----
Roopak VenkatakrishnaninSpoke EngineeringTaming Tensorflow Serving with Kubernetes for Dynamic Model DeploymentRoopak Venkatakrishnan and Rajhans Samdani.5 min read·Nov 8, 2018----
Roopak VenkatakrishnanUsing the “Google Hands Free” payment systemI was down in Palo Alto to get coffee with a friend. We were walking around after coffee when I saw Tin Pot Creamery. I knew I remembered…2 min read·Mar 12, 2016----
Roopak VenkatakrishnanA look at Uber and similar services in IndiaThe last time I was in Chennai was 2 years ago, and things seemed to have changed quite a bit since. During this trip I have been using…5 min read·Jan 15, 2016--2--2