Context switch for engineers
Context switch of an engineer usually comes on the top when we're
Engineering👨💻
All about engineering - philosophy, opinions, best practices, approaches, tutorials. No code, mostly.
Autoscaling, I'm working. don't kill me!
Problem:
When you've an autoscaling group in AWS scaling in (reducing capacity)
Configuration Drift — Tech or Culture?
Opinion on how to handle configuration drift and identifying the problems.
nginx rewrite to https
This block redirects all http requests to https
```
server {
listen 80;
if
Webhooks
Webhooks explained with analogy
Mongos balancer process
Problem Statement:
Whenever mongos balancer is running, the cluster gets insanely slow.
Mongo Operations
This is with assumption of you're using either AWS or Google Cloud.
Kafka rebalancing topics between brokers
To discard an old set of kafka brokers and migrate them to
Kafka ops: Migrating from ec2 classic to VPC
A few strategies for migrating Kafka to new cluster from classic to
Most interesting outage postmortems
> How few services of hostedgraphite not hosted on AWS, got affected by
mongodb pause ttl
The following command can be used to pause mongodb ttl for 86400
Centralised logging
Logs from various components in a distributed systems need to come together