Rakesh Kadam (@rakeshkadam)

Hosting Your Own Blockchain Nodes for Analytics: A Complete Guide

Introduction If you're building a blockchain analytics platform, one of the first decisions you'll face is: do you rely on third-party RPC providers, or do you run your own nodes? Third-party provider

Feb 24 · 11 min readrakeshkadam.hashnode.dev

Docker 101: Run a Containerized CLI Tool and Send Data to STDIN

One of the most underrated Docker tricks is using containers as temporary CLI tools — without installing anything locally. Here’s a simple but powerful pattern: cat ~/avatar.png | \ docker run -i redis \ redis-cli -h 172.16.0.3 -x set avatar:us...

Feb 14 · 3 min readrakeshkadam.hashnode.dev

The Halting Problem: Why DevOps Automation Has Hard Limits

In 1936, Alan Turing proved something that still affects every engineer, SRE, and DevOps practitioner today: You cannot build a system that always knows whether another system will ever finish running. This is called the Halting Problem, and it exp...

Jan 22 · 3 min readrakeshkadam.hashnode.dev

Container Networking & Volumes in AI Applications: The Hidden Pitfalls (and How to Avoid Them)

Modern AI applications are rarely a single service. A typical setup today includes: An API or backend service (Node / Python / FastAPI) A UI layer (Gradio, Streamlit, React) An LLM runtime (Ollama, vLLM, TGI) Optional GPU acceleration Persistent...

Jan 14 · 4 min readrakeshkadam.hashnode.dev

How to Use CloudFront Functions to Redirect Paths in an S3 + CloudFront Setup

Introduction When hosting a web application on AWS S3 with CloudFront as a CDN, it's common to have specific routes that require better user experience optimizations. A great example is hosting a Unity WebGL game inside a subdirectory (e.g., /game) b...

Feb 28, 2025 · 4 min readrakeshkadam.hashnode.dev

Rakesh Kadam

About

Available for

Rakesh Kadam's blogs

Hosting Your Own Blockchain Nodes for Analytics: A Complete Guide

Docker 101: Run a Containerized CLI Tool and Send Data to STDIN

The Halting Problem: Why DevOps Automation Has Hard Limits

Container Networking & Volumes in AI Applications: The Hidden Pitfalls (and How to Avoid Them)

How to Use CloudFront Functions to Redirect Paths in an S3 + CloudFront Setup

Rakesh Kadam

About

Available for

Rakesh Kadam's blogs

Hosting Your Own Blockchain Nodes for Analytics: A Complete Guide

Docker 101: Run a Containerized CLI Tool and Send Data to STDIN

The Halting Problem: Why DevOps Automation Has Hard Limits

Container Networking & Volumes in AI Applications: The Hidden Pitfalls (and How to Avoid Them)

How to Use CloudFront Functions to Redirect Paths in an S3 + CloudFront Setup

Rakesh Kadam

About

Available for

Rakesh Kadam's blogs

Hosting Your Own Blockchain Nodes for Analytics: A Complete Guide

Docker 101: Run a Containerized CLI Tool and Send Data to STDIN

The Halting Problem: Why DevOps Automation Has Hard Limits

Container Networking & Volumes in AI Applications: The Hidden Pitfalls (and How to Avoid Them)

How to Use CloudFront Functions to Redirect Paths in an S3 + CloudFront Setup

Search Hashnode

Rakesh Kadam

About

Available for

Rakesh Kadam's blogs

Hosting Your Own Blockchain Nodes for Analytics: A Complete Guide

Docker 101: Run a Containerized CLI Tool and Send Data to STDIN

The Halting Problem: Why DevOps Automation Has Hard Limits

Container Networking & Volumes in AI Applications: The Hidden Pitfalls (and How to Avoid Them)

How to Use CloudFront Functions to Redirect Paths in an S3 + CloudFront Setup