AI and infra engineer. Writing about AI agents, infrastructure, and building in public.https://srijanshukla.com/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/feature-end-extension/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/feature-end-extension/How I learned that bundling multiple tasks into a single prompt is a false optimization, and why sequential gated prompting is the better model for agentic workflows.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/frontier-of-agentic-design/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/frontier-of-agentic-design/Once the frontier models got good enough at long-horizon work, the bottleneck moved outward. The real leverage started showing up in the harness, the context, the memory system, and the control loop around the model.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/nfs-to-git-agent-bus/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/nfs-to-git-agent-bus/A shared mount looked like the cleanest way to make two agent instances talk across machines. A 30 minute directory cache made the whole thing unreliable, and Git ended up being the simpler bus.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/rclone-s3-mount-macos/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/rclone-s3-mount-macos/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.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/vigil-watch-command-for-autonomous-llms/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/vigil-watch-command-for-autonomous-llms/Once I had LLMs editing code autonomously, I wanted a better way to watch a directory breathe in real time. Existing tools covered file events or diffs or a TUI, but not all three together.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/scx-slo/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/scx-slo/SLO-aware Linux CPU scheduler built with sched_ext and eBPF.Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/contextgraph/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/contextgraph/Decision audit ledger for AI agents that captures why actions were taken as queryable context.Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/aws-cloud-infra-gotchas/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/aws-cloud-infra-gotchas/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...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/cpu-usage-at-pod-level-in-k8s/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/cpu-usage-at-pod-level-in-k8s/How is pod level CPU usage metric calculated in k8s? How is pod level CPU usage metric calculated in k8s? The common PromQL query found on the internet may...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/dropbox-download-to-your-vm/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/dropbox-download-to-your-vm/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...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/external-mysql-migration-to-rds/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/external-mysql-migration-to-rds/Note: Some steps (public accessibility, IAMFullAccess, blob handling) are simplified/dated. Modern migrations avoid public endpoints, use fine grained IAM,...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/geofence-validation-on-google-maps-js-api/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/geofence-validation-on-google-maps-js-api/Note: This post reflects my 2019 exploration of geofence validation. Today, libraries like Turf.js or GEOS handle these cases more efficiently. Suppose you...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/incident-20th-feb-21st-feb-2017/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/incident-20th-feb-21st-feb-2017/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...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/k8s-dns-fail/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/k8s-dns-fail/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...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/kubernetes-terraform-kafka-and-others/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/kubernetes-terraform-kafka-and-others/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...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/meta-fun-random/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/meta-fun-random/Reminder: you can just do things a new word pedagogy. which means the method of teaching something. another unrelated word tacit knowledge. knowledge that...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/the-problem-of-forecasting-what-an-architecture-will-cost-as-it-scales/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/the-problem-of-forecasting-what-an-architecture-will-cost-as-it-scales/When does one scale? When one hits a bottleneck. That’s when.What is scaled in that scenario?Only the instance running the service which has become the...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/use-case-for-redis-zinterstore/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/use-case-for-redis-zinterstore/I was reading about how secondary indexes work in redis. Some people think that well hey, redis is a key value store isn’t it? So why would someone wanna...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/webrtc/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/webrtc/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...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/when-opentelemetry-auto-instrumentation-meets-python-pex-a-debugging-journey/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/when-opentelemetry-auto-instrumentation-meets-python-pex-a-debugging-journey/Picture this: You're tasked with implementing distributed tracing across your microservices. "Easy," you think, "OpenTelemetry has auto instrumentation!"...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/you-a-junior-infra-techie/cpu-ram-disk/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/you-a-junior-infra-techie/cpu-ram-disk/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...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/you-a-junior-infra-techie/vps-vs-vm-vs-containers/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/you-a-junior-infra-techie/vps-vs-vm-vs-containers/We often hear VPS, VM, and containers used interchangeably. They all solve the same problem - packing more workloads onto fewer machines but at different...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/you-can-just-do-things/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/you-can-just-do-things/There is nothing more that needs to be said.Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/health/base-health-stack-outdated/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/health/base-health-stack-outdated/This is what seems to be working for me and appears to be sustainable My goals are fat loss and muscle retention for now Legit been trying to lose weight...Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/musings-alone/long-ago-i-was-inspired/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/musings-alone/long-ago-i-was-inspired/Kinda depressing shit tbh I found these notes below from 2019, I was an inspired kid. 2025 today I am overwhelmed, I don't dream as freely as I used to. A...Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/global-publish/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/global-publish/Content generation system that adapts one source into platform-native output for many channels.Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/xray/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/xray/Progressive code intelligence for AI assistants using structural analysis with ast-grep.Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/claude-memory-viz/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/claude-memory-viz/Claude Memory MCP visualizer for making long-lived memory inspectable and easier to debug.Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/kubectl-smart/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/kubectl-smart/Signal-first Kubernetes debugging workflow that reduces noisy cluster investigation loops.Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/musings-alone/speed-is-king/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/musings-alone/speed-is-king/We often underestimate the value of speed in everything we do. People are always amazed when someone does something faster. The combination of speed and...Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/just-stuff/john-von-goddamn-neumann/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/just-stuff/john-von-goddamn-neumann/VON GODDAMN NEUMANN https://medium.com/cantors paradise/the unparalleled genius of john von neumann 791bb9f42a2d https://medium.com/cantors paradiseSat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/musings-alone/2018-first-marathon-attempt/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/musings-alone/2018-first-marathon-attempt/My first marathon. Attempt. 28 07 2017. What a fail. Those words keep coming back to me. And it was, a big failure. I ran for the first 10kms, then the pain...Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/musings-alone/aging-hometown/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/musings-alone/aging-hometown/(crosspost from https://thinkdeli.com/post/aging hometown 1119) Parents getting old, they are not able to do with ease what they were able to before....Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/musings-alone/dad-was-happy/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/musings-alone/dad-was-happy/(crosspost from https://thinkdeli.com/post/dad was happy 700) Year 2008, I was in 7th standard. Infact I had just completed 7th standard. I came 4th overall...Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/you-a-junior-infra-techie/data-store/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/you-a-junior-infra-techie/data-store/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...Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/you-a-junior-infra-techie/encryption-compression-encoding-hashing-checksums-and-error-correction/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/you-a-junior-infra-techie/encryption-compression-encoding-hashing-checksums-and-error-correction/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...Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/you-a-junior-infra-techie/networking/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/you-a-junior-infra-techie/networking/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...Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/just-stuff/bars-from-seedhe-maut/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/just-stuff/bars-from-seedhe-maut/end of 2023, start of 2024 heavily obsessed with this duo infact I only exclusively listen to their songs now they are a vibe, that I've not seen anywhere...Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/health/supplement-stack-outdated/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/health/supplement-stack-outdated/Mornings: [ ] Creatine [ ] L Theanine + Caffeine/Yohimbine tablets [ ] D3+K2+MCT Oil [ ] L Arginine [ ] Ashwagandha/Rhodiola/Triple Ginseng Root [ ]...Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/musings-alone/ideas-i-cannot-classify/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/musings-alone/ideas-i-cannot-classify/Badi badi baatein, vada paav khaatein We look for so many optimizations in our day to day lives. There are people who are hellbent on collecting advance...Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/mac-utilities/https://srijanshukla.com/blog/tech/mac-utilities/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,...Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT