Andreas Strikos
Software and Infrastructure Engineer
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08
Feb 2023
On Better Communicating
A collection of tools on how to communicate with people with empathy and get the best out of your interactions with people.
01
Jun 2022
Demystifying Kubernetes networking using TCPDUMP
A TCPDUMP trip down the mystical networking areas of Kubernetes and Istio world.
16
Jul 2021
Sometimes It's Not Always DNS
A debugging journey that was triggered by some innocent DNS resolution errors and became a deep dive into Istio’s multi cluster architecture, iptables, conntrack and kernel options.
13
Apr 2021
A curious case of AWS NLB timeouts in Kubernetes
A debugging adventure that allowed us to solve the tail latencies our Kubernetes applications were experiencing when talking with our AWS NLB.
15
Oct 2020
Yet Another Kubernetes DNS Latency Story
How introducing Kubernetes node local DNS cache increased our latency towards our upstream resolver.
08
Jul 2020
Preparing before the storm: Migrating our monolith into Kubernetes
The steps Beat’s infrastructure team took to ensure a safe and reliable transition of a monolith service into the Kubernetes world.
17
Mar 2020
An ElastiCache Migration Story
How the Beat way of working allowed us to scale a production component in almost two weeks.