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Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Chinmay is the founder and CEO of One2N. He helps companies untangle backend, infrastructure, and reliability problems with pragmatic, cloud-native engineering. Outside work he occasionally tries his hand at tabla and unwinds with the odd game of Age of Empires.

Blogs published by Chinmay Naik.

Blogs published by Chinmay Naik.

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Conway's Law as a lever to fix legacy architectures

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Conway’s law talks about how software architecture mirrors the org chart. Learn what this means in practice and how to use Reverse Conway Maneuver to refactor existing system architectures.

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Why your Architecture should start with Questions, not boxes

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

TL;DR: Architecture should start by asking constraint questions about volume, scale, team skills, budget, and business goals, not by copying what big tech does. Use curious questions ("Help me understand why?") instead of performance questions ("Why didn't anyone think of this?"). Stay with systems long enough to see them fail in production to learn which questions actually matter.

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Prayogshala - The Engineering Laboratory at One2N

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

We created Prayogshala, One2N’s internal engineering lab, to capture our learnings, experiments and knowledge base. See how it helps engineers get better by asking "why" before "how".

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Why we give our Engineers a Checklist for the Coffee Machine

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Learn why One2N uses a coffee machine checklist to build disciplined, peace-of-mind engineering culture where reliability comes from habits, not hype

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Debugging KubeVPN's DNS resolution failures

Nilesh D

Software Engineer @One2N

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

The other day, I was trying to access the Go documentation at go.dev, but the page wouldn't load. Not on Chrome, not in incognito mode, not even on Safari. The error was simple but frustrating: "Could not resolve hostname".

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All software is assembled

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Learn why modern software development relies more on strategic assembly of third-party components over building them from scratch.

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ClickHouse schema optimization for sparse data sets

Amit Sadafule

Lead Software Engineer

Spandan Ghosh

Content @One2N

Saurabh Hirani

Principal SRE @One2N

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Optimize ClickHouse schema design for efficiently storing and querying sparse data sets. Explore strategies like sparse matrix, separate tables, and datatype-specific columns to improve compression, query performance, and reduce RAM usage.

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Understanding MLOps from a software engineers' perspective

Harsh Mishra

SRE

Spandan Ghosh

Content @One2N

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Jaideep Khandelwal

CTO @One2N

A comprehensive overview of MLOps for software engineers, covering key concepts, challenges, and best practices. Learn about knowledge silos, the MLOps lifecycle, automation, versioning, experiment tracking, and more.

Talks by Chinmay Naik.

Talks by Chinmay Naik.

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Solving Synthetic Data generation using LLMs | mitramadal.ai EP2 - 2026

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

In this talk at mitramandal.ai EP2, Chinmay Naik (Founder & CEO, One2N) walks through how One2N solved the problem of synthetic data generation using LLMs - covering the real-world use cases that drove it, why anonymization falls short, and how they built a tool that uses LLMs for schema generation and deterministic faker-based data generation.

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UNIX Philosophy for Modern Engineers | Command Line Heroes

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Command Line Heroes kicks off with real-world stories, hands-on terminal challenges, and a geek-out session for developers, SREs, and CLI enthusiasts.

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DORA Metrics or Theatrics? What to Measure, What to Ignore, and How to Improve | One2N Bits Ep. 2

Jaideep Khandelwal

CTO @One2N

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Chinmay and Jaideep on DORA metrics: what they are, when they matter, and how to use deployment frequency and recovery time without measurement theater.

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AWS Billing Nightmares: Hidden Costs That Can Burn Your Budget | One2N Bits Ep. 1

Pranay Narang

SRE @One2N

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Real AWS billing horror stories: idle EBS costs, sneaky networking fees, and the public IP billing spike that catches even experienced teams off guard.

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Pragmatic Software Engineering Stories from the Trenches | PuneFOSS 3.0

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Chinmay Naik at FOSS United Pune shares real engineering war stories: debugging mysteries, incident chaos, and lessons from building better software.

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A beginners guide to understand Kubernetes using Restaurant Analogy | DevOpsDays Kerala 2024

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Kubernetes is 10+ years old but still hard to learn. This talk uses a restaurant analogy to make K8s approachable and drive better adoption.

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Go Concurrency Powering Gigabyte Scale Data Pipelines

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

In this talk, I'll share how we built a real-world data pipeline in Go to migrate gigabytes of data from MongoDB to PostgreSQL in a streaming fashion. You'll learn how to leverage Go's concurrency features to build and scale such a system. Join me to see Go's concurrency in action and discover how it can be used to power large-scale data processing tasks efficiently.

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Monitoring the Future: Insights from VictoriaMetrics with Aliaksandr Valialkin

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Chinmay Naik and Aliaksandr Valialkin, co-founder of VictoriaMetrics, discuss scaling monitoring systems and the future of cloud-native observability.

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From DevOps to MLOps - Scaling ML models to 2 million API requests per day

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Learn how to deploy and scale Machine Learning models to 2 Million+ requests/day using MLOps best practices. In this talk, you’ll learn how to go from data preparation to deployment to scaling ML models that can run at large scale - all without breaking the bank.

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Avoid overengineering & big ball of mud 7 lessons for maintaining the balance

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Seven lessons for staying between over-engineering and a big ball of mud, building software for today that can still scale for tomorrow.

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Optimizing Application Performance - A first-principles perspective

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

What does it take to optimize application performance? - Vertical scaling vs horizontal scaling - CPU bound vs IO bound workloads - Amdahl's law to Universal Scalability Law This video covers it all.

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Introducing Cloudlens - Cloud Console in your terminal

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

How One2N built a real-world Go pipeline to stream gigabytes of data from MongoDB to PostgreSQL, using Go's concurrency features at scale.

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Growing your career with open source - FOSS Overflow

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Are you a recent grad or just started your first software job, you should watch this video. It cover how to: - get started with open source - think about career growth - why soft parts of software development matter.

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Just enough queuing theory to be dangerous

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Just enough queueing theory to build better async systems: monitoring, scaling, and capacity planning for event-driven workloads in practice.

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Lessons Learned managing a Terabyte scale database for three nines of uptime

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Listen to this talk by Chinmay Naik to understand the lessons behind managing a Terabyte scale MySQL database for three nines of uptime. This talk was delivered at RootConf's SREConf in November 2023.

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Cloudlens AWS console in your terminal

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

This talk is about our work on Cloudlens - open source tool written in Go.

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How to navigate unknown codebases

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

How to navigate unknown codebases? We do this by taking a use case of a todo app (Ultralist) and try to understand the codebase. Here are some key takeaways from this video: - Use the software if possible before trying to explore the code directly - Read the documentation, if available. Search for component diagrams, user flow and ER diagrams if available - Clone relevant repos locally, run https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc to understand various files - Look at configuration instead of code first. That way, you understand service dependencies - Start by exploring test cases, if available. Follow this order when reading test cases: End-to-end, Integration, Unit (to go from top to bottom) - Explore code by taking a use case instead of exploring files in random order

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Learn REST API design - OTP based Auth API

Chinmay Naik

CEO @One2N

Learn how to design REST API with a real world example. We build an OTP based auth API with /signup, /login, /send-otp and /validate-otp features. Refer the gist - https://gist.github.com/chinmay185/60...

Stories published by Chinmay Naik.

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The database that was quietly eating itself
P50, P90, and P99 alerts keep firing. APIs are slow. You investigate. A slow-burning incident story about a database degrading itself over time.

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Debugging a website that worked on every device except mine
Debugging a website that worked on every device except mine. Storytime! Colleague: Hey, can anyone help? I can't access go.dev on my work laptop. Tried different browsers, cleared DNS cache, nothing works.

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A curious case of Postgres choosing the wrong index
A core feature goes down for some users during peak traffic. You're on call. A story about Postgres picking the wrong index and what it took to fix it.

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Data engineering mystery - rerouting large data in Kafka
You're a tech lead pulled into a Kafka issue by a colleague. A data engineering mystery about rerouting large-scale data without breaking the pipeline.

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The Mystery of Failing Database Writes
You're on call when a PagerDuty alert fires for the main transactional database. An SRE story about diagnosing failing writes under pressure.

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A story about a nightmare scenario for every SRE
A cloud security failure wakes you up via an AWS billing alarm. A story about why good engineering practices matter during the One-to-N journey.

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Curious case of debugging failing webhook API requests
A short debugging story to start off the new year. Dev: Our backend has a webhook API that a third party will invoke over the internet. The customer team from that third party is on the call. They are getting a 500 error when making this API call.

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A curious story of debugging Machine Learning model performance
You're woken up by a p90 latency-related alert. This alert is for the main API service, so you start investigating right away.

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Database Reliability - Migrating Terabyte from self-hosted MySQL to GCP CloudSQL
You manage a 6-node self-hosted MySQL cluster with 1.5TB on production. The CTO wants to move to a managed service. A harder migration than expected.

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Database Reliability - Zero Downtime Schema Migrations with MySQL
You join a team as lead SRE, and the CTO asks you to manage and scale a self-managed 6-node MySQL cluster on production.

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Migrating Terabytes of metrics data with zero downtime
You run VictoriaMetrics at 30M time series per minute. The CTO wants costs cut without compromising reliability. A zero-downtime migration story.

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Building Pull Request-based ephemeral Preview environments on Kubernetes
A CTO wants Heroku-style ephemeral preview apps rebuilt on Kubernetes after migrating to AWS EKS. A story about making it work from scratch.

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My app is slow. Can you fix it?
A freshly funded founder calls you to fix webapp performance problems. A story about diagnosing slow systems under pressure with no context.

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Taming GCP networking cloud costs
Here's a story of a pragmatic tech lead who understands networking fundamentals like iptables, packet routing and NAT saved thousands of $$$ on cloud costs.

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A case of Terabyte scale backup and recovery solution
You're tasked with backing up 1.5TB of data daily to S3. You start asking questions. A story about designing backup systems at terabyte scale.

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Not all debugging stories have a happy ending
You migrated services from VMs to Kubernetes. Everything works except one service. A story about deciding which problems are worth solving.

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A curious case of slow APIs
On your first day as tech lead, the CTO says the video processing API is slow and points at AWS EFS. A story about finding the real cause.

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Unblocking Team members
A teammate has been blocked for two days without AWS credentials. A story about ownership, communication, and how blockers compound silently.

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