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 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
Engineering Most interesting outage postmortems How few services of hostedgraphite not hosted on AWS, got affected by AWS outage: https://blog.hostedgraphite.com/2018/03/01/spooky-action-at-a-distance-how-an-aws-outage-ate-our-load-balancer/ How codespaces had to shutdown their business after loss of data:
Engineering mongodb pause ttl The following command can be used to pause mongodb ttl for 86400 seconds (1 day) db.adminCommand({setParameter:1, ttlMonitorSleepSecs: 86400}) The following to disable TTL and enable it later on: db.adminCommand(
Hibernate+Spot fleet on AWS AWS has been constantly working on solutions to make computing less expensive and latest development on spot instances with option to hibernate has been an incredible feature. In short, we can run stateful
