Daya Shankar

Science

Multi-Cloud Hedging for Outage Resilience: Real Tests in Indian DCs

In October 2025, AWS's USEAST1 region went dark for 15 hours. Over 4 million users across more than 1,000 comp

Daya Shankar Mar 26 13 min 85

Science

Agentic AI vs. Traditional Automation: GPU Performance Tradeoffs for Ops Tasks

For most of the last decade, the infrastructure equation for enterprise automation was simple: rule-based automation ran

Daya Shankar Mar 26 14 min 85

Technology

Stable Diffusion 3.5 vs. FLUX.1: Quality & Speed on Mid-Range GPUs

The question that lands in every AI art community, every creative studio Slack channel, and every engineering team evalu

Daya Shankar Mar 26 14 min 85

Technology

Bare-Metal vs Virtualized Cloud GPUs: What’s Better for Your LLM and Diffusion Workloads?

Bare metal can unlock maximum throughput, while virtualization improves flexibility. This guide helps you choose the rig

Daya Shankar Jan 20 6 min 85

Technology

Best Practices for GPU Memory Management in Multi-Tenant Environments

Multi-tenant GPU clusters fail when memory becomes shared chaos. Use isolation, hard limits, MIG/MPS, and telemetry to p

Daya Shankar Jan 20 6 min 85

Science

Common Mistakes That Lead to Snapshot Sprawl (And How to Avoid Them)

When you make snapshot sprawl mistakes, you pay them in cost and risk across every environment. You rely on snapshots fo

Daya Shankar Nov 27 4 min 78

Science

Best Practices for Managing Block Storage and Object Storage Snapshots

When you manage storage snapshots well, they quietly protect you from ransomware, bad deployments, deletions and even re

Daya Shankar Nov 27 4 min 85

Science

Monitoring and Validating Backups Across Object Storage and Block Storage

When monitoring and validating storage backups, you need a reliable way to prove backups work before a restore becomes u

Daya Shankar Nov 27 4 min 78

Science

Optimizing Backup and Restore Processes for Speed and Reliability

Fast backups are nice. Fast restores are what save you. This playbook shows how to design backups that complete on time,

Daya Shankar Nov 27 5 min 85

Science

Monitoring and Validating Block Storage Snapshots

Backups are only real if you can prove they work. Snapshots finish. Dashboards go green. Then a restore crawls or data f

Daya Shankar Nov 27 5 min 75