As the internet continues to grow, so do the number of bad actors, such as hackers and evildoers, who are determined to exploit websites for their gain. This can be a significant problem, not only for the website owners but also for the end-users who rely on these sites. In […]
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Best efforts to OSS
As an engineer/systems architect, you must keep up-to-date with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in your field. One of the most effective ways to do that is by writing technical write-ups and sharing your knowledge with the community. However, sometimes it’s easier said than done, and there might […]
Read MoreHow I brought down production
I figured every SRE / Systems / DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer brings down production system some time or the other. So did I, that too on a monday morning at 11:00 am. I think this might actually be the biggest highlight of my career till now. I’ve solved countless problems […]
Read MoreAWS: DynamoDB + API Gateway – The Correct Way
I went through the hard way so you don’t. This is not a tutorial but more of a post to skip all step to fetch and clean data with DynamoDB + API Gateway.Before I say anything, I want to thank aws for creating this and second scrutinize them to not […]
Read MoreSRE: What do I do?
It never occurred to me as to how I might answer this question until a new hire at work asked me the question “What do I do ?”. I was confounded because I do not have a straight forward single answer. I do a ton of stuff and wear different […]
Read MoreBuilding projects to give it away, the truth about side projects.
I always loved building stuff. Small or big side projects, it didn’t really matter to me. From simple websites to using tensorflow’s inception V3 model to train images to detect fruits and objects for the blind, I did it all. Most of it was for the sheer fun of learning […]
Read MoreSRE: What I think happened to Robinhood trading app when it went down
I was waiting for Robinhood to post a postmortem but they aren’t and have never been transparent to post a public postmortem and shoot themselves in the foot by being in a sector to lose customers on a post. And the post by the founders is the most bizarre thing […]
Read MoreWhat I learned from bombing my final SRE interview at Google.
So here are some key things I learned about bombing my final round at google for an SRE. You will be judged on your competitive programming skills than your knowledge of Linux and systems. You should be able to communicate the code you have written properly to the interviewer. The […]
Read MoreElasticsearch basic concepts and terminology
Data in Elasticsearch is organized into indices. Each index is made up of one or more shards. A shard is a low-level worker unit that holds just a slice of all the data in the index. Each shard is an instance of a Lucene index, which you can think of as a self-contained search engine that indexes and handles queries for […]
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