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Inside eBPF: How Linux Observability Went Kernel-Level

Dec 29, 2025

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5 min read

Inside eBPF: How Linux Observability Went Kernel-Level

And why your entire monitoring stack is quietly shifting to run programs inside the kernel without crashing your servers

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Linux

What Actually Happens When Linux Boots

Dec 22, 2025

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6 min read

What Actually Happens When Linux Boots

A step‐by‐step mental model from firmware to login prompt, mapped to real-world failure modes.

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Linux

epoll vs poll vs select - I/O Multiplexing Explained

Nov 26, 2025

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5 min read

epoll vs poll vs select - I/O Multiplexing Explained

The kernel mechanism that changed everything about high-concurrency servers

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Linux

How Linux Talks to Files: File Descriptors, Syscalls, and the Kernel–Userspace

Nov 24, 2025

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7 min read

How Linux Talks to Files: File Descriptors, Syscalls, and the Kernel–Userspace

The three-layer system underneath every I/O operation you've ever made

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Linux

Linux Filesystem: Inodes, Journaling, and ext4 Explained

Nov 19, 2025

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6 min read

Linux Filesystem: Inodes, Journaling, and ext4 Explained

Why you run out of space with free disk available, why 100GB deletes instantly, and how filesystems prevent corruption.

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Linux

Understanding Fork Bombs in Linux

Nov 10, 2025

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3 min read

Understanding Fork Bombs in Linux

Fork bombs are six characters that crash Linux in seconds.

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Linux

Your Container Didn't Crash Because of Docker

Nov 6, 2025

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4 min read

Your Container Didn't Crash Because of Docker

cgroups v1 has been sabotaging your resource limits for years

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Linux

One Partition Full. Another Empty. Here’s the Real Problem.

Oct 29, 2025

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3 min read

One Partition Full. Another Empty. Here’s the Real Problem.

Traditional partitions waste storage. LVM fixes that.

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

Linux

Yes, Your Server Is Limited to 65K Connections

Oct 26, 2025

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3 min read

Yes, Your Server Is Limited to 65K Connections

But not the way you think

Yoshik Karnawat
Yoshik Karnawat

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