Cloud Native Engineer

10/12/2025

When the seas get rough, keep your containers on deck. Cloud Native Engineer—your guide through turbulent tech waters. 🌊⚓

05/12/2025

Which city has the best weather?

26/11/2025

System design diagram for "Design YouTube".

26/11/2025

New logos

26/11/2025

My career in pictures.

I used Nano Banana Pro 🍌 to generate the pictures and Claude code to write the prompts

12/04/2025

Some horrible action figures from ChatGPT

12/04/2025

Some horrible looking action figures, thanks to ChatGPT

25/07/2024

📢 Look, mum... I reviewed a book.

✍ My colleagues Huage Chen and Yazid Akadiri from Elastic have just published a new book titled "Elastic Stack 8.x Cookbook: Over 80 recipes to perform ingestion, search, visualization, and monitoring for actionable insights"

🕵 Proud to have contributed to this project as a technical reviewer with Evelien Schellekens.

📖 I finally received my physical copy of the book.

🏠I also want to thank Packt, the publisher, for providing me with this opportunity. It means a lot to me.

📚 If you're working with the Elastic stack, this book is a game-changer!

💰 You can grab a copy for yourself at https://amzn.to/3zGZ3HA.

Happy reading!

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👼 P.S. Bear in mind that the link above is an affiliate link. I'll receive a small percentage from each copy sold at no extra cost to you. This is my way of earning something for my hard work.

25/07/2024

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Giuseppe Santoro is a Engineering & Data mentor who provides personalized mentorship in Kubernetes, System Design, Software Architecture, Python, Docker, Elasticsearch and more.

25/07/2024

Demystifying Log Collection in Cloud-Native Applications on Kubernetes

🚢 My latest newsletter episode "Demystifying Log Collection in Cloud-Native Applications on Kubernetes"

Episode #36: A DevOps Engineer’s Guide to Aggregating Distributed Logs with Kubernetes and Elastic tools.

- 🖥️ DevOps Engineer Perspective: Exploring log collection from a DevOps viewpoint, aggregating logs from distributed sources into a single log analysis tool, like Elasticsearch
- 🌐 Common challenges on Distributed Log Collection: log rotation, retry logic, in-memory buffers, async logging, and more.
- 🛠️ Kubernetes Logging Mechanisms: how Kubernetes gathers and makes container logs available to log collection agents.
- 🕸️ Nginx's logs in Kubernetes: how the modify Nginx container image to work in Kubernetes
- 🔧 Node logging agent architecture: offload log collection to an external agent
- 🪵Some common logging agents: Elastic agent, Elastic Beats, Otel collector

👉 Read the full article

Episode #36: A DevOps Engineer’s Guide to Aggregating Distributed Logs with Kubernetes and Elastic tools.