01 — Introduction

Speaker · Engineer · Writer

Productionreality,no hype.

Keynotes, workshops, and a podcast on what actually survives contact with production. Honest verdicts on the tools reshaping how we build.

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KubeCon IndiaAWS Community DayDevOps DaysPlatformConCloud & AI Summit
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KubeCon IndiaAWS Community DayDevOps Days DelhiCloud & AI SummitPlatformConGeekleSummitSRECon AsiaKubeCon IndiaAWS Community DayDevOps Days DelhiCloud & AI SummitPlatformConGeekleSummitSRECon Asia
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Next on the mic · The Unboxing

The cost of agentic AI
in production

GuestAnanya Rao — Staff Eng, Razorpay
EpisodeEp 24 · ~55 min
PremieresJun 18, 7 PM IST
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02 — Podcast

Upcoming shows

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The Unboxing · Ep 25 · Jun 25
Does RAG still matter in 2026?
with Vikram Sethi · ML Lead, Swiggy
Tue · 7:00 PM IST＋ Remind
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Field Notes · Ep 26 · Jul 2
Kubernetes cost wars, two years in
with Priya Nair · Platform Eng, CRED
Wed · 8:30 PM IST＋ Remind
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The Unboxing · Ep 27 · Jul 9
Shipping with AI code review
with Daniel Okoro · Eng Mgr, GitHub
Wed · 7:00 PM IST＋ Remind

03 — Speaking

Upcoming events

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Jun 2026

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India

Keynote📍 Hyderabad — 2,400 attendees
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28
Jun 2026

AWS Community Day · North

Workshop📍 New Delhi
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15
Jul 2026

PlatformCon (Virtual)

Panel📍 Online
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9
Aug 2026

Cloud & AI Summit

Closing Keynote📍 Bengaluru
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04 — Technology Verdicts

Technology, unboxed.

Every tool gets the same treatment: run it against real production criteria, then call it honestly. No hype, no benchmarks — just whether it survives.

Not ReadyReady with GuardrailsProduction Worthy
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Claude Code

AI · Dev Tooling

8.6 / 10
Production Worthy
02

Vector DBs at scale

Data · Retrieval

6.9 / 10
Guardrails
03

Autonomous agents

AI · Orchestration

4.2 / 10
Not Ready
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05 — Media

Watch & listen

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Why most AI demos fail in production

AI & Production · 48K views · Nov 2025

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06 — Writing

Field notes & essays

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Essay

The checklist before you ship AI to production

Twelve questions that have saved more launches than any benchmark. A framework for evaluating tools before production.

May 28, 2026·9 min readRead →
Field Note

What a $40k Kubernetes bill taught us

Three changes that cut spend by 60% — no migration required.

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Opinion

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Per-gigabyte billing distorts how teams instrument systems.

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07 — About

A decade in the trenches taught me one thing: the demo is never the system.

I'm an engineer, speaker, and writer. I've spent ten years building production systems — and the last three helping teams adopt AI without losing the plot.

140+
Talks given
28
Events / yr
9
Countries
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08 — Elsewhere

Find me across the web

09 — Get in touch

Bring production
reality to your stage.

Keynotes, workshops, panels, and podcast appearances. I reply to every serious enquiry personally.

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