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Why your Architecture should start with Questions, not boxes

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

TL;DR: Architecture should start by asking constraint questions about volume, scale, team skills, budget, and business goals, not by copying what big tech does. Use curious questions ("Help me understand why?") instead of performance questions ("Why didn't anyone think of this?"). Stay with systems long enough to see them fail in production to learn which questions actually matter.

March 5, 2026 | 4 min read

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Gitops for Kafka in the real world: How we governed 78 clusters without breaking production

Harshwardhan Mehrotra

SRE @One2N

This post is about how we, as a lean platform engg team used gitops and jikkou to bring 78 kafka clusters under control, cut ticket based changes from days to minutes, and kept legacy kafka 0.8.2 clusters safe in production.

February 16, 2026 | 4 min read

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Prayogshala - The Engineering Laboratory at One2N

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

We created Prayogshala, One2N’s internal engineering lab, to capture our learnings, experiments and knowledge base. See how it helps engineers get better by asking "why" before "how".

February 2, 2026 | 4 min read

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The Gotchas of OTEL collector processors for effective observability in K8s

Sanket Rajgiri

SRE @One2N

Spandan Ghosh

Content @One2N

Struggling to make sense of OpenTelemetry Collector processors for real-world projects? This blog breaks down what each OTEL processor actually does, where it matters, and shares real lessons from messy SRE problems like taming noisy data, surviving crashes, and staying under cost limits in Kubernetes.

January 26, 2026 | 6 min read

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How Queueing Theory Makes Systems Reliable

One2N

Team

Learn how SREs use queueing theory to explain why 70 percent utilisation feels calm, 90 percent feels cursed, and how the same math helps you choose headroom, tame retries, and protect your error budget before incidents hit.

December 17, 2025 | 2 min read

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How to read SRE graphs without lying to yourself

One2N

Team

Are your SRE charts messing with your head? We’ll show you step by step how to actually make sense of those dashboards: percentiles, averages, heatmaps, and all, so you spot real issues fast. No jargon, just practical advice from daily SRE work.

December 10, 2025 | 3 min read

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Read Blog

Why your Architecture should start with Questions, not boxes

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

TL;DR: Architecture should start by asking constraint questions about volume, scale, team skills, budget, and business goals, not by copying what big tech does. Use curious questions ("Help me understand why?") instead of performance questions ("Why didn't anyone think of this?"). Stay with systems long enough to see them fail in production to learn which questions actually matter.

March 5, 2026 | 4 min read

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Gitops for Kafka in the real world: How we governed 78 clusters without breaking production

Harshwardhan Mehrotra

SRE @One2N

This post is about how we, as a lean platform engg team used gitops and jikkou to bring 78 kafka clusters under control, cut ticket based changes from days to minutes, and kept legacy kafka 0.8.2 clusters safe in production.

February 16, 2026 | 4 min read

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Prayogshala - The Engineering Laboratory at One2N

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

We created Prayogshala, One2N’s internal engineering lab, to capture our learnings, experiments and knowledge base. See how it helps engineers get better by asking "why" before "how".

February 2, 2026 | 4 min read

Blogs

Blogs.

Read Blog

Why your Architecture should start with Questions, not boxes

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

TL;DR: Architecture should start by asking constraint questions about volume, scale, team skills, budget, and business goals, not by copying what big tech does. Use curious questions ("Help me understand why?") instead of performance questions ("Why didn't anyone think of this?"). Stay with systems long enough to see them fail in production to learn which questions actually matter.

March 5, 2026 | 4 min read

Read Blog

Gitops for Kafka in the real world: How we governed 78 clusters without breaking production

Harshwardhan Mehrotra

SRE @One2N

This post is about how we, as a lean platform engg team used gitops and jikkou to bring 78 kafka clusters under control, cut ticket based changes from days to minutes, and kept legacy kafka 0.8.2 clusters safe in production.

February 16, 2026 | 4 min read

Read Blog

Prayogshala - The Engineering Laboratory at One2N

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

We created Prayogshala, One2N’s internal engineering lab, to capture our learnings, experiments and knowledge base. See how it helps engineers get better by asking "why" before "how".

February 2, 2026 | 4 min read

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