Infra Posts

I wanted a cheap cold-storage mount that still felt local in Finder. rclone plus FUSE-T got surprisingly close, but the mount flags matter more than most setup guides admit.

You can run AWS Batch jobs as pods in your Kubernetes cluster. Pretty cool actually. As expected the AWS tutorial is reliable, you follow it step by step...

Handy script to download all your business from dropbox This script had to undergo a lot of iterations, it failed a lot of times after download for hours on...

Note: This post reflects my 2019 exploration of geofence validation. Today, libraries like Turf.js or GEOS handle these cases more efficiently. Suppose you...

I can write about the whole incident in detail because this was my own startup. I was the one man tech team here for about 2 years. What happened = 20th Feb...

Let the service name be ‘banana’ Let the pods be of the service ‘pineapple’ There was a rise in 502s accompanied by cannot lookup banana and interestingly...

Kubernetes: TIL in a k8s pod when you define env vars, if you define the same env var twice, the latter one takes precendence how resource quotas work in...

What a joy! It was a breath of fresh air when I came across the requirement of implementing live streaming. It was quite a learning curve to understand how...

Picture this: You're tasked with implementing distributed tracing across your microservices. "Easy," you think, "OpenTelemetry has auto instrumentation!"...

Disclaimer: I have found it a lil tough to translate my mental model about XYZ topic in words to juniors. I'm able to explain it to them, but I'm making up...

We often hear VPS, VM, and containers used interchangeably. They all solve the same problem - packing more workloads onto fewer machines but at different...

Disclaimer: I have found it a lil tough to translate my mental model about XYZ topic in words to juniors. I'm able to explain it to them, but I'm making up...

Disclaimer: I have found it a lil tough to translate my mental model about XYZ topic in words to juniors. I'm able to explain it to them, but I'm making up...

Disclaimer: I have found it a lil tough to translate my mental model about XYZ topic in words to juniors. I'm able to explain it to them, but I'm making up...

April 1, 2019 I’ll keep updating this post as I come across new stuff. The external hard drive is detected.. but won’t mount? grep for the fsck process,...