Database schema diagram showing approval workflows with maker and checker roles

Maker-Checker Database Design: 3 Approaches Compared

A practical breakdown of three database design approaches for implementing Maker-Checker workflows in regulated systems.

December 27, 2025 · Uttam Jaiswal
Rocket launching through the ceiling of a corporate office, symbolizing entrepreneurial energy breaking through corporate constraints

Intrapreneurship: Wake Up the Entrepreneur Within

You don’t need to start your own venture to be an entrepreneur. Intrapreneurship is entrepreneurship with a different address.

December 26, 2025 · Uttam Jaiswal
Traditional servers transforming into Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters

Servers to Containers: Migration Beyond Docker Run

Container migration looks deceptively simple. The real challenge isn’t running docker run - it’s doing it the right way for enterprise-grade results.

December 24, 2025 · Uttam Jaiswal
A paved road and a winding dirt path diverging toward soft morning light - representing conventional and unconventional paths

Academic Struggles, Entrepreneurial Lessons

I was never exceptional. I was never failing either. I was simply average. In the Indian education system, average is a peculiar place to occupy. You are not celebrated. You are not rescued. You exist in the middle, visible enough to be counted but not enough to be remembered. This is not a complaint. It is context. Because what I learned from that middle ground shaped everything that came after. ...

December 23, 2025 · Uttam Jaiswal
Balance scale with flame representing passion and compass representing pragmatism

Don't Be Fanatic. Be Pragmatic.

The journey from technology zealot to pragmatic problem-solver. Passion is the fuel, but pragmatism is the compass.

December 22, 2025 · Uttam Jaiswal
Am I a failed Entrepreneur? - An Entrepreneur's journey from dreams to destiny

Am I a Failed Entrepreneur?

Ventures might fail, but entrepreneurs never fail. A reflection on how a father’s dream and a teacher’s words shaped my understanding of success and failure.

December 21, 2025 · Uttam Jaiswal
Transformation from chaotic tangled deployments to organized GitOps with ArgoCD and Kubernetes

From Chaos to GitOps: Our Journey to ArgoCD

How a forced Kubernetes migration exposed our deployment chaos and led us to embrace GitOps with ArgoCD as our single source of truth.

December 20, 2025 · Uttam Jaiswal
Breaking free from chained SaaS cloud to self-hosted GitLab with security shield

Breaking Free: SaaS GitLab to Self-Hosted Migration

A security audit exposed access control gaps in our SaaS GitLab. Here’s how we migrated to self-hosted GitLab, integrated with our corporate IDAM, and took control of our DevOps destiny.

December 19, 2025 · Uttam Jaiswal