Vishnu KS is a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer based in Kochi, Kerala, India. He specialises in Kubernetes, eBPF, Azure AKS, platform engineering, and site reliability engineering. He is a KCD Kochi organiser, CNCF Kerala community leader, and Top 3% global talent verified by Toptal.

What is Vishnu KS available for?

Vishnu KS is available for consulting engagements, advisory roles, architecture reviews, and speaking opportunities via Topmate at https://topmate.io/iamvishnuks.

What open source projects has Vishnu KS built?

Vishnu KS has built XReplicator (an eBPF-powered VM backup engine), OpsBrew (a Kubernetes log pipeline tool that won the Microsoft Azure Sentinel Hackathon), eBee (an interactive eBPF learning platform), AudioNet (audio classification using TensorFlow), and XMigrate (an open-source VM portability platform).

What is SRE Chronicles?

SRE Chronicles is a technical blog by Vishnu KS featuring real production incident investigations written as narrative stories. Each chapter covers a real debugging investigation - the alert, the hunt, the discovery, the fix, and the lessons. Available at https://iamvishnuks.com/chronicles.

Is Vishnu KS a Kubernetes expert?

Yes. Vishnu KS has extensive Kubernetes expertise spanning platform engineering at fleet scale, GitOps with ArgoCD, eBPF-level observability with Cilium, multi-tenant Loki/Grafana stacks, and deep incident investigation. He is also the organiser of KCD Kochi 2026 - Kerala's flagship Kubernetes Community Days event.

Field Notes from Production · SRE Chronicles

Field Notes from Production

SRE
Chronicles

Real incidents. Real debugging. Real lessons. Each chapter is a story from the trenches - the kind of production problems that don't show up in documentation, only in 2am alerts and packet captures.

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Chapter 01

The 5-Second Time Bomb

Every Node.js server ships with a silent misconfiguration. Most never notice it - until nginx does.

Node.jsnginxKubernetesTCP· 8 min readApr 2025

Chapter 02

CF-RAY: -

curl from the pod worked. The app from the same pod did not. Cloudflare returned a 400 for a request it pretended never existed.

CloudflareJavaSOAPTLS· 9 min readMay 2026

Chapter 03

The Ghost Connections

A Java service was taking 21 seconds to call an API that responded in 179ms. The wire logs exonerated the connection pool, the firewall, and the network.

Apache HC5CamelKafkaJava· 10 min readMay 2026

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The 5-Second Time Bomb

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The Ghost Connections

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