About This Blog

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This blog is a window into my world as an open source maintainer and an amateur policy analyst.

I write about a wide range of topics, from in-depth tutorials for projects that keep me up at night to the goals in life that keep me inspired.

I also try to write daily, but fair warning: I don’t stop to edit these.

Unless mentioned otherwise, all material in this blog is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, and the source code of this website is available under the MIT license.

Ethics Statement

I don’t accept any form of payment to write about a product or a company. The products I write about are the ones I work on and/or believe in strongly.

I use analytics to help me learn and improve my future articles. This blog uses Plausible Analytics and does not collect personal data or personally identifiable information.

About Me

I work full-time in maintaining Apache APISIX. Formerly, I maintained two CNCF projects.

I work primarily on cloud native/Kubernetes, API gateways, and service meshes. I write and occasionally give talks (what am I doing now?).

The lines between my work and personal life are blurry, but outside of this, I enjoy reading, playing my bass, and riding my motorcycles. If you want to know more about me, here’s my story.

Travel

I have been traveling a lot for work and pleasure lately. The only reason I haven’t traveled more in the last few years is because my passport sucks. It takes a lot of effort to apply for a visa, and I’m under a lot of stress after I submit my visa application, waiting to know if I can travel.

My European, American, and Singaporean friends have relentlessly heard me rant about this. I don’t plan to stop because it is the most limiting thing in the modern world and probably one of the only reasons I envy people in rich countries with better passports.

Still, I have traveled to all these countries, and I plan to keep traveling: 🇸🇬 🇨🇳 🇦🇪 🇱🇰 🇮🇪 🇧🇭 🇲🇾 🇹🇼 🇮🇩

I have yet to go to a lot of places in India (next year 🤞). And I have traveled to all districts in Kerala.

Contact

You can reach out to me at navendu@apache.org

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