<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Cloud and SRE</title><description>AI-native SRE and Cloud Infrastructure — by Ajin Baby. Hands-on guides, open-source tools, and production-grade patterns for engineers building with AI.</description><link>https://cloudandsre.com/</link><item><title>Amazon Leadership Principles – my thoughts.</title><link>https://cloudandsre.com/blog/amazon-leadership-principles-my-thoughts/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cloudandsre.com/blog/amazon-leadership-principles-my-thoughts/</guid><description>Leadership principles are important for Amazon - when they hire, when they do evaluations in the job etc. If you are preparing for an interview with Amazon, you should be expecting a lot of behavioral</description><pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AWS</category><category>General</category><category>Leadership</category></item><item><title>Gettings started with Ansible.</title><link>https://cloudandsre.com/blog/gettings-started-with-ansible/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cloudandsre.com/blog/gettings-started-with-ansible/</guid><description>Ansible is an open-source tool that enables the automation, configuration, and orchestration of infrastructure. It fully embraces the concept of Infrastructure as Code. We can build out our entire sys</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Ansible</category><category>General</category></item><item><title>GraphQL for API Development</title><link>https://cloudandsre.com/blog/graphql-for-api-development/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cloudandsre.com/blog/graphql-for-api-development/</guid><description>What is it? GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. It was originally created at Facebook in 2012 for describing the capabilities and r</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>API</category><category>Fundamentals</category></item><item><title>Hello world!</title><link>https://cloudandsre.com/blog/hello-world/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cloudandsre.com/blog/hello-world/</guid><description>Hola, So, this is my first post here. I have been thinking about setting up a blog for a while now. I believe I have done enough thinking (around 5-6 years) and I should do som</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>General</category></item><item><title>Introduction to YAML!</title><link>https://cloudandsre.com/blog/introduction-to-yaml/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cloudandsre.com/blog/introduction-to-yaml/</guid><description>YAML Aint Markup Language! It is designed with a focus on human-readable formatting. The creators of YAML wanted it to be easily readable by humans. It is portable, easily extendable, and suppor</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>General</category></item><item><title>NAS vs SAN – A brief comparison.</title><link>https://cloudandsre.com/blog/nas-vs-san-a-brief-comparison/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cloudandsre.com/blog/nas-vs-san-a-brief-comparison/</guid><description>Network Attached Storage [NAS] NAS is a specialized data storage device connected to a network providing data access to other machines in the network over ethernet. Its hardware, software, or sp</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>General</category><category>Linux</category><category>SRE</category><category>Storage</category></item><item><title>Preparing for AWS Solution Architect (Professional) Certification.</title><link>https://cloudandsre.com/blog/preparing-for-aws-solution-architect-professional-certification/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cloudandsre.com/blog/preparing-for-aws-solution-architect-professional-certification/</guid><description>Backstory I cleared the AWS Solution Architect - Associate level certification in 2019. It wasnt too hard, I could clear it with a couple of years of on-job experience and almost a month of read</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AWS</category><category>Certification</category></item><item><title>REST vs. GraphQL APIs – how to choose?</title><link>https://cloudandsre.com/blog/rest-vs-graphql-apis-how-to-choose/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cloudandsre.com/blog/rest-vs-graphql-apis-how-to-choose/</guid><description>REST APIs has been around for a while now, while GraphQL is relatively new to the game. While they both are used for data transfer - sending HTTP requests and receive HTTP responses, they both have th</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>API</category><category>Dev</category></item><item><title>The 7 layers of ISO OSI model</title><link>https://cloudandsre.com/blog/the-7-layers-of-iso-osi-model/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cloudandsre.com/blog/the-7-layers-of-iso-osi-model/</guid><description>The International Organization for Standardization came up with the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) conceptual model which provides a standard for diverse computer systems to be able to communicate</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Fundamentals</category><category>General</category><category>Networks</category></item><item><title>The CAP theorem</title><link>https://cloudandsre.com/blog/the-cap-theorem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cloudandsre.com/blog/the-cap-theorem/</guid><description>Lets look at the different system design options (databases particularly) in detail: 1. Consistency and Availability over Partition tolerance Here we prefer having some data and same data for ev</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Fundamentals</category><category>General</category><category>Storage</category></item><item><title>What is Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)?</title><link>https://cloudandsre.com/blog/what-is-address-resolution-protocol-arp/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cloudandsre.com/blog/what-is-address-resolution-protocol-arp/</guid><description>ARP is a communication protocol used for discovering link layer address associated with a given internet layer address. Eg: find the MAC (media access control) addresses associated with IPV4 addresses</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>General</category><category>Networks</category></item><item><title>What is RAID?</title><link>https://cloudandsre.com/blog/what-is-raid/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cloudandsre.com/blog/what-is-raid/</guid><description>RAID [Redundant Array of Independent Disks] is a way of providing redundancy to the stored data, providing protection from Disk failures. RAID makes it possible to use lower-priced disks are in large </description><pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Linux</category><category>Storage</category></item></channel></rss>