Akash Singh

DO NOT AUTOSCALE : PBCTF 4.0 RCA

The Incident On 02.08.25, during PBCTF 4.0 - our college club Point Blank's flagship CTF competition - we experienced what every CTF organizer fears: a complete platform outage. For 35 agonizing minutes from 10:00AM to 10:35AM IST, Me and Govind tried bringing the

[Mock Interview Series - 1] Sky : Pratik : Devops

Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in a mock interview with Pratik Singh, a Distribution Engineer at GitLab and one of my most respected seniors. Needless to say, The pressure to maintain my rep. was real. This blog is written in the format of QnA of the interview transcript,

How Talking to a College Senior taught me Devops/Gitops

The Story I love going to hackathons. Not just for participating, but for meeting new people and seeing what people are building in general. This year in May, I went to a hackathon Aventus, not for participating but for meeting some seniors and peers. While there, I met Rishabh Lakhotia,

How a small town boy reached Singapore Grand Finals

Back in our first year, me and my friend Abhyuday went to our first hackathon called Hackman v6. As a team of first year students, we didn't expect much other than a learning experience and free coffee. However, we ended up beating all of our college seniors and