WHO IS
BEHIND THIS
Srivan Technologies is the name I work under. It is one person, and that person is me.
I am Vishal Abhinav. I work on infrastructure and platform engineering — the systems underneath applications rather than the applications themselves.
Most of what I do lands between Kubernetes, Linux and the operational practice that keeps both honest: why a pod is Pending and what the scheduler is actually telling you, why a cluster upgrade stops on one degraded operator, why load average is forty on a machine with idle CPUs. The answers are usually specific, usually readable off the system itself, and usually not in the first search result.
WRITING IT DOWN
I publish Platform Ops, a free technical newsletter on Kubernetes, SRE and platform engineering — 21 issues so far, across 93 pages covering 154 topics in depth, plus 362 documented commands and a practice terminal you can type into.
It is the most complete answer I can give to what I know and how I explain it. It is also entirely public, so you can judge it yourself rather than taking a claim on this page at face value.
HOW I WORK
Read what the system says before theorising about it.
A change that was not measured before and after is a change you hope worked.
The person debugging this at 3am may be you, a year from now.
HAVE A PROBLEM IN THIS LAYER?
Specifics get a better answer than introductions — say what is actually happening and I will tell you what I would look at first.