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[2025-11] Diary for November 2025
Let's talk about my November 2025
Date 2025-11-25 2025-11-30
- some health isuues
- The project’s billing system is being upgraded from an old one (Stripe) to a new one (Polar.sh).
- This change involves updating how the system handles payments, subscriptions, and related data.
- New connections and settings were added for the new billing system.
- The old billing system’s parts are still kept around, just in case they are needed again.
- The update also cleaned up some parts of the system for better clarity.
- more expereience with better event based artecture and planning for better topics and grouping of events
Date 2025-11-23 2025-11-24
- learning about AKS and its azure backup slution which is built on top of velero.
- learning about customer session portal of stripe and polar.sh
Date 2025-11-02 2025-11-22
- able to get OTEL monitoring stack with tempo, loki, prometheus with interesting dashboards and also configuring the backends and also persistence and retention policies.
- learning about fine tuning and much more of kubernetes cluster
- able to make the frappe/erpnext from mostly rwx to rwo based storage and offloading the state to database, cache, s3,…
- learning about polar.sh and how to work with and how much similar it is to stripe and its actually amazing.
- new green metrics per image stuff
- writing some of the my expereince with otel in a blog
- some OSS contributions
- learning how to manage nodePools and why its needed for achieving better cost to performance ratio.
- learning about Ngrok and how to make us of this great tool
- got a great machine how for running more heavy workloads ;)
Date 2025-11-01
- working on the AKS cluster autoscaler, Some nodepool management with SPOT instances and on demand instances mix. what is system pool and user pool.
- instrumeting my application with otel and help ful and informative Dashboard in grafana which helps.
- learning how to enable OTEL, gateway API and all the moving parts ;)