Monthly Archives: November 2025

Golang: interfaces – the “magic” of calling methods through interface

29 November 2025
 

 Interfaces in Go allow you to describe access to data or behavior without providing concrete implementations inside the interface itself. In this way, we create a “common bus” that we can then use to “connect” external “systems.” In other words, an interface is an abstraction that defines a contract. The contract describes what can be… Read More »

VictoriaMetrics: Churn Rate, High cardinality, metrics, and IndexDB

3 November 2025
 

 One day I received one of the default VictoriaMetrics alerts that are generated during the deployment of the Helm chart victoria-metrics-k8s-stack: I thought about writing a short post like “What is Churn Rate and how to fix it,” but in the end, I ended up diving deep into how VictoriaMetrics works with data in general… Read More »

Kubernetes: monitoring processes with process-exporter

1 November 2025
 

 We are debugging one issue with memory usage in Kubernetes Pods, and decided to look at the memory and number of processes on the nodes. The problem is that a Kubernetes Pod with Livekit usually consumes about 2 gigabytes of memory, but sometimes there are spikes of up to 10-11 gigabytes, which causes the Pod… Read More »

AWS: Monitoring AWS OpenSearch Service cluster with CloudWatch

1 November 2025
 

 Let’s continue our journey with AWS OpenSearch Service. What we have is a small AWS OpenSearch Service cluster with three data nodes, used as a vector store for AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases. Previous parts: AWS: Introduction to OpenSearch Service as a vector store AWS: Creating an OpenSearch Service cluster and configuring authentication and authorization Terraform:… Read More »