Engineering👨💻 SL-AIEOU We've had some acronyms and abbreviations lately in tech and it's often difficult to keep up. Two of the below metrics are made up by me and might not be worthy of tracking. SLA What we agree to customers to expect from the service. Service Level Agreement. SLI How's the
Engineering👨💻 IAM user accessing EKS Assuming EKS is created by someone else and it already exists, how do I get the login etc? Getting started with kubectl on EKS: * Install awscli https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html * Install kubectl https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/install-kubectl.html (I'm using
Stories 📜 30 plus plus Ever seen a magician bending a spoon with the sheer power of their mind? I must've been 13 when I first witnessed it, trying my hand at bending a few aluminium spoons. Years later, I stumbled upon Gallium – akin to Aluminium, effortlessly melting to the touch of warmth. I've spent
Stories 📜 Time whispers She closed the fierce winds behind her, shutting the door. She reached for the footrest and positioned it just right, ensuring her comfort as she embarked on another journey through the pages. She began flipping through the worn, parchment-like pages, and the words decorated her time. She could smell the
Engineering👨💻 Devops Mentoring Originally posted on twitter An ongoing thread on tasks I give people to do, when I mentor for devops or such engineering roles..Inputs welcome. Note: All the estimated times are approximated with my experience. Might vary largely. Get a mentor (You can DM me!) to help you with each
Engineering👨💻 Multiple GitHub accounts This is often debated in early stage startups. Should we ask our employees to create accounts with a company's email ID or let them use their personal github account? Why I'm in no favour of new github accounts for every employee. It isn't logical. Even if the policy says they
Thoughts 💭 Quiz A few of us started to quiz ourselves amongst our friends, partially influenced by pub quizzes I've attended/conducted, and Kumar Varun's Kvizzing. Our motive wasn't to compete but rather to learn. We craft questions on anything we're curious about, and offer takeaway bits of knowledge, irrespective of whether we
Stories 📜 #okbye * Tak tak karne laga, ho mere ghutne darne laga… tak tak karne laga, ho mere ghutne darne laga… * They say ratings for pirates always go in circles... * Do you know what a junior said to senior who takes a lot of firm grounds and rigid about it? "Sir, kam stances
Stories 📜 Sorry! The table heard me saying sorry when I spilled some snacks on it. As the nose blow hard, and I sneezed and whispered Sorry I'm sick into my tissue. Aagh! Sorry I'm late, as I valued their time more than mine. Huh! Sorry I was occupied, despite my occupation is
Travel 🧗♂️ France/Italy Scams This is a work in progress. I'm writing based on personal research, allow me to expand. Certain laws in France and Italy don't allow actions against juveniles in few crimes. Hence, better be extra cautious with them. Most of the scams either directly try to extort you of money by
Quiz questions We' ve started an internal group quiz amongst a few friends. These are the sets I've made so far, and further shall be updated in the same place. :) The question slide is immediately followed by the respective answer slide. So, go to next only if you want to know the
Stories 📜 Miracles How a morning dew sprinkled on the shrubs, How the rays of sunshine through the windows, How the cloud cover passes above the mountains, How the wind blowing by the dancing trees, How the dust storm travels the desert, How the rain drops echo the rivers, How lost love returns
Thoughts 💭 2023 and beyond With life moving indefinitely forward in an apparent irreversible ship sailing from the past, through the rough waves of the present, to the beautiful shores of the future, I often wonder what the journey encapsulates. With the winds carry the bags of surprises, the flag post of my ship dances
Stories 📜 Vengeance of headless brides In 1730s, a small kingdom on the banks of Rhine in today’s Germany, witnessed the first floods. After weeks of helplessness, the king rowed across flooded fields seeking advice from the lone banished priest. Post the prayer, the priest said, “for there is water, we need fire and blood.
Stories 📜 I’ll love you, later! Dear, Your presence brightens my inability to silence my smile, mute the glow on my face, locks my eyelashes. Your absence brings the undeniable gloom, disparaged eyebrows, and the smile takes rest. My love to you is evident, and my expressions aren’t hidden in their burrows. While I want
Stories 📜 How often do you look back? *How often? How often do you look back at life you left behind? * Oh dear! I tilt my head to the life of certainty once in every while. For each step I take ahead, I count how far am I from the life I led. With every tiny adventure I
Stories 📜 Knock Knock “Knock knock.” “who’s there?” “Me!” “Who’s me?” “You’re you!” We might be the last generation to get this joke! *With no door knock, my knuckles never chuckle… The anticipation of a cousin’s call, with no knock echo through the hall… With no knock on the door,
Travel 🧗♂️ Diving into wilderness Trincomalee, Srilanka. With a countdown of 3..2..1…Jump, I’d hear a splash of water in the calm ocean. Within few fin movements, I’d transit from the familiar world of today to the underworld with memories from thousands of years ago. As I delve deeper, with my
Thoughts 💭 Board Games & Puzzles I've been introduced to Board Games via Karan, my flatmate in Mumbai who had no less than a hundred games in his collection back then. As I've moved out later on, the hobby didn't grow on me due to lack of opportunities. Almost 3 years later, I've moved to Bangalore
Thoughts 💭 Should I use credit card? Is this your lifestyle? * Lives in a metro city, frequents shopping and spends online for cabs, food, etc. and goes to supermarket, malls, uses high end salon, etc. * Got at least 1-2 months of prediction in how much money is going to come… types of salary. If yes, you’ll
Engineering👨💻 Quick, what's web3? Web 1 — Everyone sees same content when they open a website. Servers just had filesystem and nothing else. Creation is limited to people with some learning curve. Ran from 1991-2004. Still a significant part of current ecosystem under CDNs. This is analogous to newspapers and other such media. We can
Stories 📜 Platonic friendships The boundaries are often unclear, and yet the intertwined lifestyles blur the distance, in friendship. There’s no exclusivity, no commitment, no priority. The existence of one another is celebrated, the joys and successes of others matter a lot but they’re not in our head when life replays. It’
Engineering👨💻 on-demand flask environments This blog is a work in progress, and shall be revisited with more details, script and validation of given references. Not yet tested. For Beanstalk: * Reference: https://python.plainenglish.io/deploy-a-python-flask-application-to-aws-elastic-beanstalk-55fb39f4903a This example doesn't explicitly cover how to spawn RDS cluster or connect to RDS database. Refer to https://docs.
Engineering👨💻 3vs of a Roadmap Minimum Viable Roadmap guidelines When we get a PRD/Business objective, we should remind ourselves the formula of 3Vs.: Vision, Value and Visibility. Vision: Defines the broader achievement, aligned with our customer sector. To create a win-win situation with our customer base, and align it with larger goal of the
Thoughts 💭 Police and tracking mobile phones Can anyone (police) track us through phone number? Thanks to crime patrol, this is a common question I get from people everywhere. So, let’s get to it. What is location? In the context, location refers to a particular latitude and longitude co-ordinates that’d geographically map to a unique
