Engineering Self paced devops training This is an ongoing article aimed to give instructions on self paced devops training. Keep checking back for edits. Typical time is subjective and changes from person to person. It's fine if you're
Engineering Setup VPC with terraform on AWS Down to dirty blog on setting up VPC with terraform. This is to setup a new VPC in ap-south-1 with three public and three private subnets. It'll also take care of NAT Gateways,
Engineering Quick EFK on EKS Assumption: You've a kubernetes cluster running on EKS, and all the kubeconfig, kubectl, aws authentication are handled. What's EFK? Elasticsearch: A search database with support for REST api queries. Fluentd: Data collector typically
Engineering Bring up Zookeeper+Kafka cluster ...Yet to be completed... This is for self. You may find it useful too. Objective is to deploy a kafka + zookeeper cluster in a dirty way. This is going to be on AWS.
Stories The low tides of high hopes The sand washed deep away engrossed every while, The wind howling high away embraced with a wail, The clouds moving far away endorsed with a will, I was sitting on a high rock
Engineering Service Completeness on kubernetes Note: This isn't a verbose blog post covering all aspects. This is more of a "I want to confirm what I already know" kind. When migrating microservice to kubernetes, it's essential
Engineering Science and Art of choice We've quite a few choices to make in infrastructure, regarding architecture design and etc. I'm here to deal with cost factor involved in choice of tools we adapt or build. End of the
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.
