Ashnik

Executing Zero-Downtime Server Replacement in a Large Payments Platform

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Building and Operating Observability at Banking Scale with Elasticsearch

The article discusses how traditional observability tools struggle with the dynamic, ephemeral nature of serverless architectures. It highlights challenges like cold starts, distri…

Why SFTP Is a Hidden Operational Risk – And How Enterprises Are Replacing It with Kafka Based File Transfer Platforms

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Where AI Fits in Marketing Automation, and Where It Should Stop

This article guides readers on effectively monitoring key performance parameters in PostgreSQL to proactively identify and resolve database bottlenecks. It details essential metric…

OpenTelemetry Collectors: Re-architecting Observability Ingestion for Modern Production Systems

For years, observability ingestion has been dominated by vendor-specific agents, collectors, and tightly coupled pipelines. Each monitoring platform came with its own way of collec…

Building an MCP Server for PostgreSQL—My Journey to Making Databases Talk to AI

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been exploring how to make PostgreSQL “AI-ready” not by exposing it directly to an LLM, but by putting a secure, intelligent layer between the model a…

Building a Secure, Scalable AI Platform with NGINX Plus

Executive Summary Enterprises across BFSI, insurance, healthcare, retail, and public sector are rapidly adopting Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI-driven automation. However, run…

A Practical Guide to Cutting Observability Costs Using the OpenTelemetry Collector

Most organisations start observability with a clear intention. Get the right signals in place, build a few dashboards, and move on. But as systems scale, telemetry grows silently i…

The Hidden Infrastructure Convergence of 2025 That Will Reshape 2026

Infrastructure was supposed to get simpler. Containers would streamline deployments, observability would make systems clearer, and event-driven design would reduce complexity. Inst…

PostgreSQL 18: Unleashing Speed and Radical Observability

When PostgreSQL 18 arrived this fall, database communities everywhere focused on its headline features: screaming-fast asynchronous I/O, smarter indexing, new developer magic like …

Celebrating the Elastic Partner Award: A Shared Win

When Ashnik received the Elastic Sourced Revenue Generator Partner Award for India at ElasticON Bengaluru last month, it was far more than a headline for us. Awards come and go, bu…

Vector Databases in the Enterprise: Overcoming the 7 Barriers to Adoption

Vector databases are no longer experimental. They are being evaluated for fraud detection, anomaly detection, semantic search, supply chain optimization, and AI augmentation. Yet e…