Chinmoy Mukherjee

The Kong Man (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The novella centers on Vincent Krishna, an accomplished IT veteran with decades of experience in both cloud (AWS, Azure) and on-premise infrastructure, who takes on a formidable challenge in the volatile Melbourne energy sector. Hired by The Energy Authority (TEA) as an Infrastructure Architect for a six-month contract, Vincent is tasked with an impossible goal: transforming the Authority's "meager, rusting on-premise setup" into a powerhouse that rivals the infinite scalability and resilience of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This mission is immediately fraught with crushing constraints, as he is limited to a maximum of only three virtual machines (VMs) per component while being demanded to deliver the operational excellence, zero-trust security, and fault tolerance of a massive public cloud ecosystem.

At the technical core of this impossible project is the Kong Gateway, an open-source API gateway built on Nginx. It is entrusted with managing a torrent of market data and satisfying a staggering list of seventy stringent Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), including self-healing auto-upgrades, demand-driven auto-scaling, and zero-downtime deployments. Vincent understands that the true magic of AWS lies in its "breathing ecosystem" of elastic resources and multi-Availability Zone failover, which cannot be replicated on aging local hardware with just a few VMs. He realizes that while AWS offers seamless failover, his on-premise setup guarantees manual intervention and inevitable downtime, exposing the vast chasm between cloud-native promise and on-premise reality.

Faced with this insurmountable gap, Vincent pivots to survival mode, leaning on his skill as a translator of impossible demands. His strategy relies on a clever dance of workshops, dazzling Proofs of Concepts (PoCs), and sophisticated presentations designed to buy him time. He finds inspiration for this approach in a science fiction novella, coining the term "digient"-a fragile, temperamental digital entity requiring careful nurturing. The novella, "The Kong Man," thus becomes a compelling tale of one man's ethical tightrope walk with ambition and impossibility, using the pursuit of a flawless API gateway as a metaphor to explore the long, dark shadows of on-premise reality under the shining light of the public cloud.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chinmoy Mukherjee
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232453473
• Artikelnr.: 75997331

Autorenporträt

Chinmoy Mukherjee is the first Indian to author 100+ books in English, which includes 50+ Novellas. He has been working as solution architect for past 15 years. Over the past 25 years, he has contributed to 50 real-world software projects as an individual contributor. His experience has enabled him to design, develop, and deploy some of the most complex systems, handling millions of transactions per day. As both an AWS and GCP-certified architect, he has not only built 8 systems from scratch but has also successfully re-engineered 7 legacy systems, improving their performance by 1530%.

His expertise in cybersecurity has led to incredible discoveriessome thrilling, some frustrating. He was listed among the top 100 security researchers in the world for Microsoft (Q4, 2022) and also in Google's Hall of Fame. He ethically hacked Baba Bank, retrieving its entire customer database, and even achieved remote code execution in JPMC & Solana. Over time, he has reported critical vulnerabilities to 50+ Australian companies and received bug bounties from Uber, Apple, Mastercard, Octopus Australia, MagicLeap, and Paysafe. One of his wildest exploits? He found a vulnerability that let him order a Porsche without payingonly to receive a meager $1050 bounty for the discovery.

His penchant for testing boundaries made him the first engineer among 500,000 in HCLTech to complete and download all 1,000 offered certificates. In the industry, he played a critical role in defeating Infosys in 3 major RFPs while being part of underdog teams. Beyond corporate challenges, he took the lead in India's first blockchain token deployment, successfully developing and listing tokens on the Ethereum network.

Innovation has been central to his career. He holds 3 patents, granted in the USA and Australia. Among them, he developed "Patient Analytics," a patented system that underwent successful clinical trials in India. He has published a technical book titled "Build Android-Based Smart Applications" via Springer. This book has been downloaded by 18000+ software professionals from single channel of Springer.