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Sri Balaji

Senior System Engineer @ Backbase | Cloud Computing, Agentic AI Development

Location Amsterdam Joined Joined on  Personal website https://www.thesimplifiedtech.com github website

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Jeppiaar Engineering College

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Senior System Engineer at Backbase

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Secrets Management: Keeping Keys, Passwords, and Tokens Out of the Wrong Hands

Secrets Management: Keeping Keys, Passwords, and Tokens Out of the Wrong Hands

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The OWASP Top 10, Explained

The OWASP Top 10, Explained

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Authentication vs Authorization: The Two Most-Confused Words in Security

Authentication vs Authorization: The Two Most-Confused Words in Security

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What Is Application Security?

What Is Application Security?

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Fine-Tuning LLMs: When and How

Fine-Tuning LLMs: When and How

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LLMOps: Productionizing LLM Apps

LLMOps: Productionizing LLM Apps

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LLM Cost & Latency Optimization

LLM Cost & Latency Optimization

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Building AI Agents: From One LLM Call to a Reasoning Loop

Building AI Agents: From One LLM Call to a Reasoning Loop

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Evaluating LLM Applications

Evaluating LLM Applications

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Structured Output & Tool Calling

Structured Output & Tool Calling

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Embeddings & Vector Search

Embeddings & Vector Search

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Working with the LLM API

Working with the LLM API

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Prompt Engineering Fundamentals

Prompt Engineering Fundamentals

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How LLMs Actually Work (for Engineers)

How LLMs Actually Work (for Engineers)

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What Is an AI Engineer?

What Is an AI Engineer?

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Blameless Postmortems: Turning Incidents Into Durable Learning

Blameless Postmortems: Turning Incidents Into Durable Learning

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Chaos Engineering in Practice

Chaos Engineering in Practice

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Graceful Degradation & Load Shedding: Staying Partly Up When Everything Wants to Fall Down

Graceful Degradation & Load Shedding: Staying Partly Up When Everything Wants to Fall Down

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Capacity Planning for Reliability: Forecast, Load Test, and Right-Size

Capacity Planning for Reliability: Forecast, Load Test, and Right-Size

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Writing Effective Runbooks

Writing Effective Runbooks

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Alerting Without Burnout

Alerting Without Burnout

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Toil & Automation: How SREs Win Back Their Week

Toil & Automation: How SREs Win Back Their Week

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The Four Golden Signals: The Minimal Set of Metrics That Catch Almost Everything

The Four Golden Signals: The Minimal Set of Metrics That Catch Almost Everything

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Error Budgets Explained: Reliability You Can Actually Spend

Error Budgets Explained: Reliability You Can Actually Spend

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SLIs, SLOs & SLAs: Defining Reliability

SLIs, SLOs & SLAs: Defining Reliability

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What is Site Reliability Engineering?

What is Site Reliability Engineering?

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RAG Architecture Explained for Backend Engineers

RAG Architecture Explained for Backend Engineers

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Zero Trust Networking for Beginners, From "Never Trust" to a Working Policy

Zero Trust Networking for Beginners, From "Never Trust" to a Working Policy

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Git Workflows That Actually Work at Scale

Git Workflows That Actually Work at Scale

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How to Pass the AWS Solutions Architect Exam in 8 Weeks (SAA-C03)

How to Pass the AWS Solutions Architect Exam in 8 Weeks (SAA-C03)

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The 12-Factor App, The Rulebook Behind Every Cloud-Native Deploy

The 12-Factor App, The Rulebook Behind Every Cloud-Native Deploy

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AWS vs Azure vs GCP: The Honest Comparison in 2026

AWS vs Azure vs GCP: The Honest Comparison in 2026

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Docker vs Kubernetes: When to Use Each (and When You Don't Need Both)

Docker vs Kubernetes: When to Use Each (and When You Don't Need Both)

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How Netflix Streams to 200 Million Devices Without Breaking

How Netflix Streams to 200 Million Devices Without Breaking

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Incident Management & On-Call That Doesn't Burn People Out

Incident Management & On-Call That Doesn't Burn People Out

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Cloud Cost & FinOps: Engineering for Spend

Cloud Cost & FinOps: Engineering for Spend

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Security as a Non-Functional Requirement

Security as a Non-Functional Requirement

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Scalability Principles: Stateless, Horizontal & Decoupled

Scalability Principles: Stateless, Horizontal & Decoupled

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Reliability & Resilience: Designing for Failure

Reliability & Resilience: Designing for Failure

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Observability: Metrics, Logs & Traces (The Three Pillars)

Observability: Metrics, Logs & Traces (The Three Pillars)

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Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms

Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms

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Securing the Software Supply Chain (SLSA, SBOM, Signing)

Securing the Software Supply Chain (SLSA, SBOM, Signing)

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Kubernetes in Production: Beyond the Tutorial

Kubernetes in Production: Beyond the Tutorial

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GitOps: Declarative Delivery with ArgoCD & Flux

GitOps: Declarative Delivery with ArgoCD & Flux

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Artifacts & Registries: Where Your Builds Live

Artifacts & Registries: Where Your Builds Live

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Environments & Config: Dev / Staging / Prod Done Right

Environments & Config: Dev / Staging / Prod Done Right

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Dockerfile Best Practices: Small, Fast, Secure Images

Dockerfile Best Practices: Small, Fast, Secure Images

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Your First CI Pipeline with GitHub Actions

Your First CI Pipeline with GitHub Actions

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CI/CD Fundamentals: What a Pipeline Really Does

CI/CD Fundamentals: What a Pipeline Really Does

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What DevOps Actually Is (It's Not a Job Title)

What DevOps Actually Is (It's Not a Job Title)

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Cloud Migration Strategies: The 6 Rs

Cloud Migration Strategies: The 6 Rs

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Multi-Account / Landing Zone Strategy & Governance

Multi-Account / Landing Zone Strategy & Governance

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The Well-Architected Framework, Decoded

The Well-Architected Framework, Decoded

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Multi-Region Architecture: When You Actually Need It

Multi-Region Architecture: When You Actually Need It

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Designing for High Availability & Disaster Recovery (RTO/RPO)

Designing for High Availability & Disaster Recovery (RTO/RPO)

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Managed Databases: Relational vs NoSQL in the Cloud

Managed Databases: Relational vs NoSQL in the Cloud

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Load Balancing & Auto-Scaling Explained

Load Balancing & Auto-Scaling Explained

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Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Start Here

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Start Here

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Deploying Your First Production App the Right Way

Deploying Your First Production App the Right Way

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Cloud Storage: Object vs Block vs File

Cloud Storage: Object vs Block vs File

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