Stories Shutter tales I was against the idea of photography for quite a few years. I was firm believer in live in the moment, not capture them for memories. When I saw a tiger in a
Engineering I deleted /usr/share accidentally A few days ago, kafka reported an error in balancing and new messages produced seem to start failing in few partitions. As usual, I logged into all kafka brokers to see what's happening.
Thoughts Vacations of 2019 Hey all, here's my vacation plan outlined for 2019. In short, the dates, place and a brief overview of itinerary. Detailed itineraries in Google doc will be linked here in a few days.
Engineering Context switch for engineers Context switch of an engineer usually comes on the top when we're talking of productivity. The problem, unlike CPU, humans can't do context switches by simply putting things in RAM, etc. That's a
Engineering Autoscaling, I'm working. don't kill me! Problem: When you've an autoscaling group in AWS scaling in (reducing capacity), some of your instances get terminated. AWS usually terminates the oldest first. The problem is, sometimes, we might not want to
Engineering Configuration Drift — Tech or Culture? Opinion on how to handle configuration drift and identifying the problems.
Thoughts How do you manage budget for travel? After the posts on how I manage leaves (https://acsrujan.net/holidays-and-travel/) and the reality of backpack (https://acsrujan.net/the-exhaust-of-backpack/), a few have asked about budget. I'd not listen to me when
Stories The exhaust of backpack While many of us wonder at the idea of backpacking to travel and relax our body and mind for a few days, the bitter truth is travel is exhausting. If anything, more exhausting
Engineering nginx rewrite to https This block redirects all http requests to https```server {listen 80;if ($http_x_forwarded_proto != "https") {rewrite ^(.*) https://$host$1 permanent;}}```
Stories Oh shit, I'm 26 now! With my nose sneezing unconditionally, I had a pill and fell asleep by 11pm. Unusual of me. A few minutes into a dream I no longer remember, I had my phone buzzing and
Thoughts How do you get so many leaves? "How do you take so many vacations while working for a company full time?" it's the question I always get from various people and in this, I'm showing how I do it. As you know, it's working great from me.
Thoughts Inability to sell self The cloak of modesty ripping off what I've.I purchased a cloak long time ago, and wear it as modesty. Living under the cloak almost all my life, resulted in a low self-esteem.
Engineering Mongos balancer process Problem Statement:Whenever mongos balancer is running, the cluster gets insanely slow..Latencies are back to normalcy immediately if the balancer stopped.Mongos balancing process for reference: Balancer takes a lock Identify chunk
Stories Small talk on modern love She: It's love that we lack. No matter how well we do, unless we don't have someone to love and get loved back. This feeling shall persist. Me: Yeah.. we all need someone.
Engineering Mongo Operations This is with assumption of you're using either AWS or Google Cloud. Also, this isn't elaborate purposely. Installation on Centos/Amazonlinux: Create a new repo file: sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org.
Engineering Kafka rebalancing topics between brokers To discard an old set of kafka brokers and migrate them to newer set, Get the existing list of topics. Make a file topics-to-move.json with contents in the format: {"topics"
Engineering Kafka ops: Migrating from ec2 classic to VPC A few strategies for migrating Kafka to new cluster from classic to VPC: Strategy 1: Launch a new cluster (Zookeeper+Kafka brokers), point producers to new cluster and drain the older cluster once
