Abhinav Ittekot·May 14, 2025Predictions for 2030It’s 2am, May 15 2025 and I am having trouble sleeping. Anyway, here’s my top predictions for the year — 2030:
Abhinav Ittekot·Jan 25, 2025The struggles of an “offshore” software engineerIf you’re a software engineer with big ambitions and happen to be born outside the US (like me, in India), one of the most viable career…
Abhinav Ittekot·Dec 7, 2024Getting to 1500 ELO on chess.com2 years after publishing “Getting to 1000 ELO”, I finally managed to cross 1500 ELO on chess.com. It’s been a roller coaster of a journey…
Abhinav Ittekot·Nov 30, 2023Starting a new role as a founding engineerI joined Insight Health as a founding engineer in September.
Abhinav Ittekot·Aug 4, 20239 golden rules for debuggingThere’s more software written today than ever before and the complexity of existing software continues to increase. AI is only going to…
Abhinav Ittekot·Jun 25, 2023Asking “When not to use” in technical interviewsWhen I began my career, a senior engineer shared his fondness for a particular type of interview question: “When would you not use…” These…
Abhinav Ittekot·Dec 30, 2022My best reads in 2022As a software engineer working in the infrastructure domain, I’m going to list the articles/books that have had a huge impact on me in…
Abhinav Ittekot·Dec 25, 2022The rise of ARM64 and custom siliconThe rise of ARM64 architecture in the world of computing has been nothing short of remarkable. In just a few short years, ARM64 has managed…
Abhinav Ittekot·Aug 28, 2022Running Kubernetes jobs with sidecar containersRecently, I came across an interesting use case of having to run a sidecar container inside a Kubernetes Job. However, there was a…
Abhinav Ittekot·Apr 18, 2022Getting to 1000 ELO on chess.comI’ve been playing Chess online on chess.com for about a year now and have been long trying hard to get to the elusive 1000 ELO rating…A response icon1A response icon1
