Rajan Sharma

Kickstarting a Startup: Lessons I’m Grateful to Learn from Ashish Mehta

Some sessions stay with you long after the event is over. Not because they were flashy or full of jargon but because they were practical, honest, and ...

The checklist before you ship AI to production

The demo worked. Everyone clapped. Now you have to put it in front of real users who will do things you never imagined. Here is what to…

What a $40k Kubernetes bill taught us

A cluster that cost as much as an engineer’s salary, and almost nobody could say why. This is the anatomy of a runaway Kubernetes bill and…

Kubernetes cost wars, two years in

Two years of cost dashboards, rightsizing tools, and FinOps teams. So why did the average cluster get less efficient? A look at who is…

Shipping with AI code review

AI reviewers are fast, tireless, and surprisingly good at catching bugs. They are also noisy, occasionally wrong, and dangerous to trust…

Does RAG still matter in 2026?

Every time context windows get bigger, someone declares RAG dead. They keep being wrong and the reason why tells you a lot about building…

How to write a book | Rajan Sharma

For years I kept telling myself: “I’ll write a book one day.” But “one day” quietly becomes “never.” This week, I attended a writing workshop and som...