Vijaya Rajeev Bollu (@thinkwithops)

# Why a Program Can Fail Before main() Runs on Linux

The Setup A program works on your laptop. You copy it to another Linux machine, run the same command, and it fails immediately, before any of your own code has executed. This article follows one small

1d ago · 8 min readthinkwithops.hashnode.dev

# ArgoCD Silently Stuck at "Unknown" Sync Status? It Was a Kubernetes Version, Not ArgoCD

The Setup Adding a GitOps delivery layer on top of an existing 11-service Online Boutique deployment: ArgoCD ApplicationSet generating dev/staging/prod Applications, Argo Rollouts canary for the front

Sep 16 · 4 min readthinkwithops.hashnode.dev

# Can My AWS EKS Cluster Handle 100,000 Users? Load Testing + Autoscaling, Proven Live

Part 2 of a 4-part series — this article covers the repo at tag v2.0-load-testing-autoscaling. Part 1 (EKS deployment, tag v1.0-eks-deployment) is here. The Setup Last build: Google's Online Boutique

Sep 4 · 4 min readthinkwithops.hashnode.dev

I Benchmarked 3 Local LLMs on My Laptop — Here's What the Numbers Actually Show

The Problem With Choosing a Local Model Everyone has an opinion on which local LLM is best. "Use Llama — it's the most popular." "Mistral 7B has the best quality." "Phi-3 Mini is small and efficient."

Jun 5 · 6 min readthinkwithops.hashnode.dev

# I Built a RAG System That Enforces Its Own Citations — And Blocks Its Own Merges

The Problem With Most RAG Tutorials Every RAG tutorial ends the same way. You send a question, the LLM returns an answer, and you ship it. What the tutorial doesn't show you: that answer might be conf

May 14 · 6 min readthinkwithops.hashnode.dev

Vijaya Rajeev Bollu

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# Why a Program Can Fail Before main() Runs on Linux

# ArgoCD Silently Stuck at "Unknown" Sync Status? It Was a Kubernetes Version, Not ArgoCD

# Can My AWS EKS Cluster Handle 100,000 Users? Load Testing + Autoscaling, Proven Live

I Benchmarked 3 Local LLMs on My Laptop — Here's What the Numbers Actually Show

# I Built a RAG System That Enforces Its Own Citations — And Blocks Its Own Merges

Vijaya Rajeev Bollu

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# Why a Program Can Fail Before main() Runs on Linux

# ArgoCD Silently Stuck at "Unknown" Sync Status? It Was a Kubernetes Version, Not ArgoCD

# Can My AWS EKS Cluster Handle 100,000 Users? Load Testing + Autoscaling, Proven Live

I Benchmarked 3 Local LLMs on My Laptop — Here's What the Numbers Actually Show

# I Built a RAG System That Enforces Its Own Citations — And Blocks Its Own Merges

Vijaya Rajeev Bollu

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# Why a Program Can Fail Before main() Runs on Linux

# ArgoCD Silently Stuck at "Unknown" Sync Status? It Was a Kubernetes Version, Not ArgoCD

# Can My AWS EKS Cluster Handle 100,000 Users? Load Testing + Autoscaling, Proven Live

I Benchmarked 3 Local LLMs on My Laptop — Here's What the Numbers Actually Show

# I Built a RAG System That Enforces Its Own Citations — And Blocks Its Own Merges

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Vijaya Rajeev Bollu

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# Why a Program Can Fail Before main() Runs on Linux

# ArgoCD Silently Stuck at "Unknown" Sync Status? It Was a Kubernetes Version, Not ArgoCD

# Can My AWS EKS Cluster Handle 100,000 Users? Load Testing + Autoscaling, Proven Live

I Benchmarked 3 Local LLMs on My Laptop — Here's What the Numbers Actually Show

# I Built a RAG System That Enforces Its Own Citations — And Blocks Its Own Merges